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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Prepping some other materials and re-found this gem: A Chinese description of the #brooklynbridge with an illustration made by someone who only looked at the description. Love the #minarets which, from an 1892 Chinese perspective, are a generically "foreign" architectural element #skystorians

bridge crossing river diagonally, with minarets at left and center. land at far end appears mountainous

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And since it's #laborday , I should also mention the 600-mile march against Campbells led by Baldemar Velásquez from Toledo Ohio to Camden NJ tlcpllaborhistory.omeka.net/exhibits/sho... #laborhistory #ohiohistory #floc

BW photo of demonstrators in field, blocking a harvester machine

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Migration from Mexico would resume during WWII - although predominantly associated with agricultural jobs, many came to work on railroads in Ohio. braceroarchive.org/items/show/493 #braceroprogram #immigrationhistory #mexicanamericanhistory #ohiohistory #wauseon

Photo of Bracero workers in front of Wauseon, Ohio train station. Many are waving

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The reference: while Mexican Repatriation is often thought of as a Southwestern phenomenon, other regions of the country engaged in this often coercive "voluntary" repatriation as well. Ohio also participated as well. NYT 20 March 1934. #ohiohistory #mexicanrepatriation #skystorians #greatdepression

Short NYT article text - headline "300 Mexicans to Leave Ohio"

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Got this right before the 4th - cover of Lumen, Ohio Humanities Journal by @billiterstudio.bsky.social #ohiohistory

Map of Ohio in cartoon with many images relating to Ohio's history

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

But nothing for the specific article itself. I've tried various combinations of specificity #googlescholar

Google Scholar search for "Did the First Justice Harlan Have a Black Brother?" showing no results for the article itself

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Articles from the journal, Western New England Law Review appear

screenshot of google scholar search for Western New England Law Review

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

List of food riots in 1776 in the American Revolution -- focus of early riots was high cost of imports, while later riots shifted to urban cities and focused basic commodities. People in towns and cities would trade tea and coffee for groceries. Currency was depreciating as well. #inflation 🗃️

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Map of spread of #smallpox in North America, 1775-1782, from page 7 of Fenn, Elizabeth A. 2002. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. 1. paperback ed. Hill and Wang.

Black and white map depicting the spread of smallpox through North America, 1775-1782. Arrows show points of origin in Quebec, spreading into Great Lakes, annd from Pensacola to Savannah to Chesapeake region, and then back to Charleston. A separate wave originating from Mexico city to other Spanish-ruled areas, and a hypothetical spread from Texas/New Mexico to northern plains, Pacific NW, and into subartic regions and Hudson Bay.

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

@aldenlibdigital.bsky.social Was looking for unrelated stuff and came across this 1973 article about a campus visit by Bella Abzug, who was touring in support of the ERA. #womenshistory media.library.ohio.edu/digital/coll...

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

About to discuss the history of Mexican and Puerto Rican migration in my #ohiohistory class. A good time to share items from the Bracero archive, such as this photo #immigrationhistory 🗃️ Caption: Aaron Castaneda Gamez driving a tractor to a field in Ohio. 1947. braceroarchive.org/items/show/511

man driving a tractor, with bare tree branches at left and small farm building at right

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Also in the 1970s and 1980s predominantly Latino farmworkers in Ohio and Michigan organized with help from Baldemar Velásquez, pressuring Campbell Soup and farmers for better working conditions. They organized a 600-mile march from Ohio to New Jersey. #ohiohistory #laborhistory #farmworkers #floc

Protesters at Putnam County Courthouse 1978

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Timeline cleanse - the Topkapı scroll #islamicart #penrosetiling #aperiodictiling patterns #historyofmathematics #earlymodernart - more info here by Gülru Necipoğlu: www.getty.edu/publications...

Scroll pattern with multicolored aperiodic tiling, with central cube in center, with different pattern at right resembling 8-bit style in BW

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

And a 1903 article from the Newark Daily Advocate (Ohio) about the Wright Brothers. This is Wikimedia commons but the image links to this (paywalled) source newspaperarchive.com/newark-advoc... #ohiohistory

Newspaper article title "Machine That Flies" - white on orange background, includes portrait illustrations of Wright Brothers and drawing of their plane

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

and another image ohiomemory.org/digital/coll...

Nass Airship Above T.R. & L. Co's Power House, Toledo, Ohio.

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The Wright Brothers are well known, but another early Ohio pioneer in flight was Tony Nassr (sometimes spelt Toney Nassr) - here's a photo of his airship in Toledo ohiomemory.org/digital/coll... #arabamericans #aviationhistory #ohiohistory

Airship above houses and trees, plus portrait of Tony Nassr at top left

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

map of the battle area (north is to the right)

historic map of northeastern NC and southeastern VA, showing the location of Kemp's Landing on the eastern branch of the Elizabeth River. North appears to the right on this map

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

So I recently talked to my students in class about European medical cannibalism, and was going to show them some articles and information, and this was the autocomplete result #autocomplete #aifail #medicalcannibalism

Googe search with autocomplete stating "medical cannibalism dispensary near me"

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Also here's another work by another artist (also in the book(: John Nixon, The Cove of Cork, 1794 collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O106924... #cork #docks

Black and white sketch of a crowded and busy dockside, with ships on the left background, crowd in the foreground, hill on right of midground, and building on right

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

And this one from the Portland Art Museum portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb...

Chumash artist, Whale effigy, ca. 1000/1700, soapstone and clamshell beads appears cute with beads appearing circular and in place for eyes and smiling mouth and also on front fins

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

speaking of native history, the internet has recently become fascinated with a very cute #chumash #whale sculpture (one source: www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/2375/ )

Whale Effigy black soapstone with shell inlay with cuteified features and a hint of a smile

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This series was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize: "‘True Stories From an ICU,’ a beautiful, funny and frequently haunting depiction of the fragility of human life, with each frame perfectly paced over a seamless scroll." apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/grap... (soft paywall) #graphicjournalism #nursing

Male nurse and male patient discuss alcoholism and sobriety. " 1. What's your drink? 2. Whiskey. 1. I was a vodka man. 2. Was? 1. I quit. In 2017. 2. How?

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

And here's his portrait by artist Giorgio Vasari www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/...

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Here's another: Hikotaro Henry Yamada -- his identity found through some recent research by @oliverwang.bsky.social discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2... #wwii #wwi #veterans #japaneseamericans

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Getting ready to teach #wwii this week - happened to come across this photo. #railroads #railroadworkers #chicanahistory Official description: San Bernardino, California. Women "suppliers" who work at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad roundhouse.

two women railroad workers walking between trains on tracks

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

such as this one www.ohiohistory.org/i-vacuumed-a... #ohiohistory #passengerpigeon

Man restoring and caring for a stuffed passenger pigeon

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Plus some of the cool math about the floret/seed patterns are in the article (each one is numbered here!)

numbered pattern of how florets and seeds are arranged in a sunflower

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Also some pretty goth covers too. This one leans towards goth-cute (which I guess is appropriate for #bats in general)

book cover with light brown background, red and yellow floral trim with regular pattern of bats of various sizes in center

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John O'Keefe @johnokeefe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Also loving these old book covers from @publicdomainrev.bsky.social - lots of art nouveau

Hands attempts to control swirling threads on Book cover of Arthur Stringer. The Loom of Destiny. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899

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