THE CAREWORK AND CODEWORK OF NINETEENTHCENTURY NEWSPAPERS American

THE CAREWORK AND CODEWORK OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEWSPAPERS American Antiquarian Society Digital Antiquarian Conference May 29, 2015 Lauren F. Klein Georgia Institute of Technology lauren. klein@lmc. gatech. edu

TOME: INTERACTIVE TOPIC MODEL AND METADATA VISUALIZATION Project Directors Lauren Klein, School of Literature, Media and Communication Jacob Eisenstein, School of Interactive Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Student Research Assistants Iris Sun (MS, Digital Media, 2014) Catherine Roshelli (BS, Computational Media, 2015) Ana Smith (BS, Computer Science, expected 2016)

Newspapers in dataset • • • Douglass Monthly Frederick Douglass Paper Freedom's Journal The Christian Recorder The Colored American The National Era • • • The North Star The Provincial Freeman The Weekly Advocate National Anti-Slavery Standard The Liberator Courtesy of Accessible Archives http: //www. accessible-archives. com/

“For those of us who do the work of editing in large part because we envision ourselves as careworkers for the commons: how do we articulate this work? ” – Sarah Blackwood, “Editing as Carework: The Gendered Labor of Public Intellectuals” (Avidly, 2014) “Codework: The computer stirring into the text, and the text stirring the computer. ” – Alan Sondheim, “Introduction: Codework”” (American Book Review, 2001)

Lydia Maria Child could “impart useful hints to the government as well as to the family circle. ” William Lloyd Garrison, on Child, in The Genius of Universal Emancipation (1829)

TOME: INTERACTIVE TOPIC MODEL AND METADATA VISUALIZATION Project Directors Lauren Klein, School of Literature, Media and Communication Jacob Eisenstein, School of Interactive Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Student Research Assistants Iris Sun (MS, Digital Media, 2014) Catherine Roshelli (BS, Computational Media, 2015) Ana Smith (BS, Computer Science, expected 2016)

National Anti-Slavery Standard (Child as editor) T 65 (“cleaning”): soap acid soda gallons boiling lime juice vessel vinegar alcohol T 05 (“sewing”): fig stitch beads silk inches stitches ribbon wire embroidery satin T 50 (“nature”): plants trees insects vines buds blossoms vegetable flowers foliage birds T 90 (“baking”): boil eggs butter pepper bake ingredients flour teaspoonful sauce pint National Anti-Slavery Standard (overall) T 08 (“commodities”): assortment retail subscriber phila stationery prices cloths flour shawls silks T 52 (“UK”): british parliament edinburgh glasgow commons palmerston liverpool earl colonies T 25 (“public events”): applause cheers mob faneuil audience laughter chairman lecturer T 11 (“abolition”): abolitionists abolitionist resistants abolitionism birney anti slaveholder resistant All Abolitionist Newspapers T 11 (“abolition”): abolitionists abolitionist resistants abolitionism birney anti slaveholder resistant T 15 (“slaves”): slaves negroes slaveholder blacks slaveholders negro abolitionists planters slave T 53 (“bondage”): ye er oppressor bondman tyrants mourn weep jehovah anguish oppressors T 21 (“policy”): treaty jurisdiction treaties territory validity constitution territorial territories indemnity T 77 (“enforcement”): jail pistol murder sheriff mob sentenced negroes coroner bail pistols T 96 (“ideology”): constitution inalienable framers democracy governments amendments federal Black-Owned/Edited Abolitionist Newspapers T 12 (“underground railroad”): toronto northampton refugees provincial commodious accommodations payment undersigned location fugitives T 91 (“colonization”): colonization liberia africa missionaries colonies africans emigration emigrants T 21 (“policy”): treaty jurisdiction treaties territory validity constitution territorial territories indemnity T 43 (“race/identity”): colored blacks negro whites negroes nigger mulatto citizenship amalgamation

TOME: Interactive Topic Model and Metadata Visualization (prototype IIb)

Lydia Maria Child Letter to Ellis Gray Loring March 9, 1842 NYPL Manuscripts & Archives

“I cannot manage the paper at all as I would. Public documents of one kind or another crowd upon me so, and since the union with the Freeman I am flooded with communications, mostly of an ordinary character. Entre nous, almost every communication I put in is re-written entirely by me, for the sake of condensation. I had rather write three editorials than one such job; and after I have done all, they are not worth much. But they are scarcely individuals and societies interested in the cause, and I fear to injure the interest of the cause and the paper by omission. ” Lydia Maria Child Letter to Ellis Gray Loring March 9, 1842 NYPL Manuscripts & Archives

Ted Warnell, “Lascaux. Symbol. ic” (2001)

Questions? Comments? lauren. klein@lmc. gatech. edu

Prototype II (alpha): Multimodal Research in Temporal Space

Lauren F. Klein, “The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings, ” in American Literature 85. 4 (December 2013)

Benjamin Schmidt, from “Shipping Maps and How States See” http: //sappingattention. blogspot. com/2014/03/shipping-maps-and-how-states-see. html

Rebecca Solnit, from Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (2010)