Please come join us as the Internet
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:05 am
Please come join us as the Internet Archive partners with the Skyline College Art Gallery for the viewing of “Portraits of Growing Up Asian,” a photo exhibition that tells a visual story of a Chinese American family’s journey from China to San Francisco’s Chinatown.
The Hall family’s arrival from China in the 1850’s resulted in the opening of the first Chinese herbal medicine shop in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1864 and became a hub for the local community. The phone number list business was open until it was unlawfully shut down by the FBI in 1957. This tragedy led to a family tradition in photography that spanned generations.
View the full collection at archive.org
The exhibition features archived photographs and artifacts from the Hall Family Collection, including the family herb shop signage. It also features photographs by Timothy Hall and his experiences growing up in San Francisco from the 1950’s to contemporary times.
The exhibition explores themes of ancestry, family, discrimination, and all that comes with growing up as Chinese Americans in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the mid to late 20th century.
In an era where the vast majority of “photographs” are a series of captured data points stored in the etheric realm of a digital universe, it becomes a delightful trip to step into the authentic past and to awaken to the sensations conveyed through the experience of an actual photograph. Please join us.
DATES:
Mon Feb 26th Opening Reception and Opening 12-2pm
Mar 26th – Closing Day
HOURS:
Please visit the Skyline College Art Gallery Website for Hours
Monday: 10am-12:30pm
Tuesday: 4pm-6pm
Wednesday: 10am-12:30pm
Thursday: 4pm-6pm
Friday: 11-4pm
Posted in Event, Image Archive | Tagged exhibit |
Digital archives: a time machine for the web
Posted on March 5, 2024 by Chris Freeland
This post was originally published in a newsletter by Project Liberty, February 20, 2024. Image by Project Liberty.
In the summer of 2023, the New York Times ran an article titled “Ways You Can Still Cancel Your Federal Student Loan Debt.”
The article outlined six ways to cancel student debt, with the final being:
“Death
This is not something that most people would choose as a solution to their debt burden.”
At least that was the sixth reason until the New York Times revised it with a stealth edit. When you read the article today, choosing death as a solution to a debt burden has been replaced, but there’s no mention that this article was revised. The timestamp is still the day it was originally published.
The Hall family’s arrival from China in the 1850’s resulted in the opening of the first Chinese herbal medicine shop in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1864 and became a hub for the local community. The phone number list business was open until it was unlawfully shut down by the FBI in 1957. This tragedy led to a family tradition in photography that spanned generations.
View the full collection at archive.org
The exhibition features archived photographs and artifacts from the Hall Family Collection, including the family herb shop signage. It also features photographs by Timothy Hall and his experiences growing up in San Francisco from the 1950’s to contemporary times.
The exhibition explores themes of ancestry, family, discrimination, and all that comes with growing up as Chinese Americans in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the mid to late 20th century.
In an era where the vast majority of “photographs” are a series of captured data points stored in the etheric realm of a digital universe, it becomes a delightful trip to step into the authentic past and to awaken to the sensations conveyed through the experience of an actual photograph. Please join us.
DATES:
Mon Feb 26th Opening Reception and Opening 12-2pm
Mar 26th – Closing Day
HOURS:
Please visit the Skyline College Art Gallery Website for Hours
Monday: 10am-12:30pm
Tuesday: 4pm-6pm
Wednesday: 10am-12:30pm
Thursday: 4pm-6pm
Friday: 11-4pm
Posted in Event, Image Archive | Tagged exhibit |
Digital archives: a time machine for the web
Posted on March 5, 2024 by Chris Freeland
This post was originally published in a newsletter by Project Liberty, February 20, 2024. Image by Project Liberty.
In the summer of 2023, the New York Times ran an article titled “Ways You Can Still Cancel Your Federal Student Loan Debt.”
The article outlined six ways to cancel student debt, with the final being:
“Death
This is not something that most people would choose as a solution to their debt burden.”
At least that was the sixth reason until the New York Times revised it with a stealth edit. When you read the article today, choosing death as a solution to a debt burden has been replaced, but there’s no mention that this article was revised. The timestamp is still the day it was originally published.