Spencer platt photographer biography template
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This Photojournalist&#;s 9/11 Images Document A True American Tragedy
It&#;s been sixteen years since the September 11th attacks and the nation still feels the impact of that day. In a matter of minutes, the world changed irrevocably for every person in the county. Acts of terror in Manhattan, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon shattered our sense of safety and shifted our geopolitical policy in ways that continue to this day. 2, lives were lost, but the scope of the tragedy reaches far beyond the recorded casualties.
After 9/11, it seemed like the nation might falter under the weight of our collective pain and fear. Instead, we rebuilt. We were the nation that history had assured us we could be. Resilient. Brave. Unified. Now, more than a decade and a half later, we must memorialize the people who lost their lives in the deadliest terrorist attack the world had ever seen. But, we don’t just remember those who perished, we also remember those who rose up from all walks of
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Platt R. Spencer papper
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Identifier:&#;Midwest-MS-Spencer
Scope and Content of the Collection
Included are materials from Platt Rogers Spencer’s career as a teacher, calligrapher, businessman, poet, författare av essäer, politician. There are copy-books, notes from his years as county treasurer in Ohio (), a treatise on slavery, newspaper clippings by and about Platt Rogers Spencer (and his family), recipes for blandning inks, photographs of the family as well as of the family homestead, hand-written calling cards, genealogical research, penmanship samples and calligraphic flourishes, correspondence between Platt and his students, as well as correspondence within his own family. Spencer fathered ten children and was one of ten children himself, so the volume of correspondence was vast.
Many of Platt’s students and colleagues became well-known as calligraphers and as founders of important business colleges across the U.S. and their correspondence,