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Date: | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:01:44 -0800 |
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Rebecca S. Graff wrote:
> This is a very timely email for me, since I was just
> contacted by a producer with the History Detectives in
> regard to the site of my dissertation research
> —Chicago’s Jackson Park. She wanted me to identify
> some items in their possession—artifacts that two
> boys dug up from the park in the 1980s—because
> they are doing a show about the architecture of the
> 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (which took place
> there). . . .
The handful of episodes I've seen have been heavy on interviews/interpretations/valuations done by private collectors, appraisers and auctioneers, rather than by people on the (for lack of a better term) "non-profit" side -- academics, librarians, archivists. Always keep in mind that they're producing a show that has to attract viewers, and they will almost invariably go with the source that gives the most dramatic interpretation/analysis/revelation on camera, whether or not that person has much in the way of credentials, academic or otherwise.
> I have not received any further contact from the History Detectives.
No sh1t. You just told them (correctly) that their clients/subjects are looters. That messes up their script something awful. ;-P
Andy Hall
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