The Bell Index

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• Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761–1818) and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond (died 1788)
  The painting is a self-portrait of the artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard with her two students, Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond and Marie Gabrielle Capet. It shows Labille-Guiard dressed in an elegant gown and hat. She sits in front of a canvas on an easel, paintbrush and palette in hand. Standing behind her are her two students watching her work.
• Polyhymnia
  A painting of the Greek muse Polyhymnia, holding a scroll and sitting with a stringed instrument next to her
• Message Case with Landscape
  - Were rare and precious in Europe due to limited Western contact with the “isolated island country.” - These types of items were often repurposed and refurbished with the addition of expensive gold or gilded mounts. - There were thought to enhance their beauty and significantly increased their value.
• Sword with Scabbard of Faustin I (1782-1867), Emperor of Haiti
  Faustin-Élie Soulouque created this elaborate ceremonial sword. He ruled as Haitian Emperor Faustin I from 1849 to 1959. He was gifted the sword by The Grand Masonic Lodge of Haiti in 1850. It was later gifted from Faustin to Henry Delafield. The Delafield passed this heirloom along until it was bequeathed to the MET in 2012.
• Design for Brougham, no. 3251
  This art piece is one of the design/presentation drawings donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by William Brewster when Brewster & Co. disbanded in 1923 while he was one of the museum's trustees. This is carriage design no. 3251.
• Ring with Lotus Motif
  From Indonesia (Java) culture
• Twelve Animals of the Chinese Zodiac
  This is a set of small jade sculptures of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals. They are all carved out of green jade and were created during the Qing Dynasty. The twelve animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
• Cape
  This intriguing cape was exhibited at the Vienna Universal Exhibition in 1873. Its elaborate knitting techniques and unique overall appearance enforce the importance of handmade crafts and decorations which were becoming progressively important nearing the end of the 19th century.
• African American Sheet Music
  A digital collection of African American sheet music from the 18th century to the present day. It consists of approximately 250,000 items selected from the Sheet Music Collection at Brown University, as well as links providing historical context. This collection provides insight into the livelihoods and perspectives of African Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Virtual Paul's Cross Project
  It’s a WordPress website that hosts information about St. Pauls cathedral in 1622, including sermons of the priests for special occasions. It includes digital images of the cathedral as well as a “digital flyby” of the site. The website also includes information about acoustics and the historical context of the cathedral.
• Famous Trials
  The website contains both primary sources (trial transcripts, evidence, photographs, testimonies, personal documents, maps, arrest warrants, etc.) and secondary sources (summaries, timelines, biographies of those involved, videos of reenactments, etc.) having to do with famous historical trials. The website informs viewers of various famous trials throughout world history in the years from 399 BC to 2021.
• The September 11 Digital Archive
  The September 11 Digital Archive uses digital media to collect, preserve, and display the history of the terrorist attacks on the United States of America in 2001. It consists of first-hand accounts, emails, phone calls, text messages, photos, and songs that help piece together the timeline of events.
• The John Milton Reading Room
  This site aims to be a complete and annotated archive of John Milton’s works (poetry and some prose). The reading room offers poetry (Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes) as well as prose and epigrams in Latin. For those works in Latin, the site offers translations.
• Digital El Diario
  Analysis of articles from the University of Colorado Boulder newspaper El Diario De La Gente, written by a Chicanx group of students, showing connections between their articles and the struggles that the Chicanx community were facing.
• "Migration is Beautiful"
  This database contains historical records such as letters, family stories, memoirs, and photographs to give us a broader and deeper understanding of the migration of Latinx people to Iowa. It is organized by tabs that have different sections of information in each. In one of the tabs, there is an interactive map with a sliding time frame bar to visualize the growth of Latinx communities in Iowa. This project is a helpful resource for anyone looking to learn about the Latinx community’s migration to Iowa as it provides a broad spectrum of information in one collective database.
• Baldwin's Paris (2)
  Baldwin’s Paris is an interactive map with pinpoints of James Baldwin’s alluded to locations throughout the city of Paris. The markers on the map show exactly where these locations are mentioned in 10 of his published works and it has the specific quotations of these references.
• Runaway Quilt Project
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• Mapping Police Violence
  An interactive map that pinpoints each instance that an individual was killed by a police officer in 2020. The map also notes that so far in 2021, 745 people have been killed. Each pinpoint can be clicked on to view information about the killing and sources to support. There are several other charts and graphs that track police brutality over the years. Other tabs allow the viewer to compare data between cities and states and view national trends. One may also read extensive information on how the data was collected and why it is important to continue to investigate police officers.
• Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
  What is it? Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe utilizes Omeka to highlight the events leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the decline of Communism in Eastern Europe. What does it have? The website showcases primary sources (such as propaganda posters, government documents and videos), scholarly interviews and essays from the years leading up to 1989 to provide context and information about the fall of Communism. The site also has case studies analyzing specific sources, such as Soviet health posters, as well as detailed lesson plans and teaching modules for classroom use. What does it do? The site provides various resources to understand political, social and cultural contexts within Eastern Europe that contributed to the fall of Communism, as well as providing numerous lesson plans for teachers to use.
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• Lost Plays Database
  A record of undocumented plays over the course of 100 years, from 1570 to the 1670s, that would have been lost otherwise.
• Virtual Jamestown
  It helps viewers grasp the history of the Jamestown settlement and its people (English settlers, slaves, and Native Americans) through the use of various primary and secondary sources and other things, like timelines and maps. -Meeghan, Lauren, Lillah
• “Latino Murals in the US”
  - It’s hosted on google earth, with some links that send you to pages that talk about the pieces more in-depth. - Can bring the user to external website links that dive further into the “Icons and Heroes”, “Arts and Entertainment”, “History and Tradition”, and “Latino Traditions Today.” - Contains presentations that tie together Latinx artists of the past and present. - When the user clicks through the different murals, Google Earth will move their location point to where the next destination is with very immersive visuals. - It zooms out to travel and zooms in when it takes you to the next location. It shows you the real-life view of the mural’s location.
• Baldwin's Paris
  An interactive map of Paris with color-coordinated markers that indicate the locations James Baldwin references. The colors indicate a set of locations referenced in a work by Baldwin. The markers include the title of the location and Baldwin’s description or use of the location. The map provides viewers with a visual and interactive representation of Baldwin's references to places in Paris from his literary works.
• Before Shakespeare
  The resource focuses on exploring the origins of playhouses rather than focusing on the “late-sixteenth century phenomena.” It does so by compiling individual plays and a timeline of significant events of early playhouses of the era.