Project: Time Capsule

Chelsea Beimfohr and Mary Grace Shaw, “Contents of ‘mystery safe’ leave people asking more questions,” 13WMAZ, July 10, 2017, ➝.

William E. Jarvis, Time Capsules: A Cultural History (Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2003), 25.

Jeremy Rifkin, Time Wars (New York: H. Holt, 1986).

Nick Yablon, Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019).

Kate Giammarise, “Library gets 1930s relics from project’s time capsule,” Toledo Blade, February 21, 2013, ➝.

Ella P. Stewart and Gary Franklin, “‘A Snapshot of the Negro in Toledo pre-1930s’ by Ella P. Stewart,” Journey, August 24, 2016, ➝.

Ibid.

John D. Combes, “Ethnography, Archaeology, and Burial Practices among Coastal South Carolina Blacks,” Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology Papers 7 (1972): 54, quoted in Ross W. Jamieson, “Material Culture and Social Death: African-American Burial Practices,” Historical Archaeology 29, no. 4 (1995): 39–58.

William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses (New York: Random House, 1942), 135, quoted in Jamieson, “Material Culture and Social Death,” 50.

Jamieson, “Material Culture and Social Death,” 39.

Cherri Gregg, “Queen Lane Apartments Gone, But History Remains,” CBS Philly, September 13, 2014, ➝.

“Queen Lane Archaeology,” Philadelphia Archaeological Forum, ➝.

Jamieson, “Material Culture and Social Death,” 50.

Jason Laughlin, “In Germantown, a housing development, a Colonial graveyard, and the playground that wasn’t,” Philadelphia Inquirer, August 27, 2020, ➝.

Steve Sitarski, “History of Queen Village,” Queen Village Neighborhood Association, May 18, 2011, ➝.

Larry Miller, “Hallowed ground: Black colonial-era grave sites,” Philadelphia Tribune, November 29, 2014, ➝; Michaela Winberg, “Philly’s black burial grounds and the battle for preservation,” Billy Penn, March 24, 2019, ➝.

Bethel Burying Ground Project, ➝.

Patricia M. Samford, “Power Runs in Many Channels: Subfloor Pits and West African Based Spiritual Traditions in Colonial Virginia” (PhD diss., University of North Carolina, 2000), ➝.

Ibid.

“A Housing Revolution,” Monticello, ➝.

Bonnie V. Winston, “Time Capsule’s Treasures at Home in Museum Buried by Former Slaves,” Greensboro News & Record, April 22, 1993, ➝.

Ibid.

Heather Gilligan, “An entire Manhattan village owned by black people was destroyed to build Central Park,” Timeline, February 23, 2017, ➝; “Laying of a Corner-Stone,” New-York Daily Tribune, August 5, 1853, quoted in Jasmin K. Williams, “The Village in the Park,” New York Post, August 13, 2007, ➝.

Leslie M. Alexander, African or American? Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784–1861 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008).

Heather Gilligan, “An entire Manhattan village.”

Inscription on the 2015 rededication plaque in front of the Vance Monument.

Emily Patrick, “Black history emerges from 1897 time capsule,” Citizen Times, June 3, 2015, ➝.

Emily Patrick, “City unearths time capsule beneath Vance Monument,” Citizen Times, March 31, 2015, ➝.

Jamieson, “Material Culture and Social Death,” 51.

Stanley Dunlap, “No guess came close to what was buried inside a Tindall Heights safe,” Macon Telegraph, July 10, 2017, ➝.

Marcia Greenwood, “Can Frederick Douglass time-capsule contents be saved?” Democrat and Chronicle, October 24, 2019, ➝.

Kristin Harty Barkley, “Penn Ave. time capsule unearthed,” Cumberland Times-News, October 26, 2011, ➝.

Patrick, “Black history emerges from 1897 time capsule.”

Jamieson, “Material Culture and Social Death,” 50.

“Time Capsule To be Placed In Statue Of Dr. James Shepard,” The Carolina Times, October 1, 1949, ➝.