{"id":114,"date":"2013-10-16T16:01:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2014-09-10T19:20:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T19:20:02","slug":"collection-highlight-the-mark-ragsdale-flyer-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/2013\/collection-highlight-the-mark-ragsdale-flyer-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Collection Highlight: The Mark Ragsdale Flyer Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/911.chnm.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/539object.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116 alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/911.chnm.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/539object-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"539object\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/539object-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/539object.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a> The year following the attack on the World Trade Center was tumultuous for the city of New York. Placed at the epicenter of events that many Americans felt continued to defy understanding, residents also struggled to make sense of what had happened. The <a href=\"http:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/collections\/show\/12\">Michael Ragsdale Flyer Collection<\/a> provides a glimpse into some public discussions that played out on street corners and telephone poles.<\/p>\n<p>Flyers gathered daily by Mr. Ragsdale offer us insight into the myriad of issues that concerned New Yorkers. On these pages we see reactions from institutions, advocacy efforts from anti-war groups, and efforts to help people cope with the potential mental health consequences of the attacks.\u00a0 Many sought to address public confusion and ignorance about the events and causes and attempted to diffuse growing tensions between different groups throughout the city and the country.<\/p>\n<p>Through the fliers, we can see that much of the debate focuses on the merits and justice of using force in retaliation for the September 11th attacks. Heavily represented in the collection are anti-war fliers, together with items from religious organizations and advocates for public servants (fire, EMS, law enforcement, and even postal workers).<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in visual culture and propaganda will find the collection of advocacy posters a useful resource. The artistic construction of these fliers offers insight into design in the early 2000s. While some are hand-drawn, many reflect the increased availability of home computers, image manipulation software, and online images This includes fliers that repurpose older art, make use of clip art, or remix older art with digital photography. While a few demonstrate professional design skills, most are clearly the product of passionate amateurs using the traditional form of a broadside to engage New Yorkers in conversations about their post-9\/11 lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year following the attack on the World Trade Center was tumultuous for the city of New York. Placed at the epicenter of events that many Americans felt continued to defy understanding, residents also struggled to make sense of what had happened. The Michael Ragsdale Flyer Collection provides a glimpse into some public discussions that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/911digitalarchive.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}