Local Mining Culture and Digital Humanities Methodologies Main Menu The Hearl Maxwell Collection and Mining in the United States A overview of the Maxwell Collection, with in introduction into the exhibit. Effects of World War I A description of the economy that followed the end of WW I and the difficulties that were faced. Corpus Text Analysis Wherein the body text is analyzed and patterns begin to develop. Issues on the National Level A description and analysis of the issues facing the local workers from the national level. Concern for the Workers A description and list of concerns for safety from District 14. Constitution for Work Environment A description and analysis of the Constitution put in place in District 14, and the significance thereof. Timeline A Timeline of events starting from the mine worker's strikes to the eventual donation of the Hearl Maxwell Collection to Pittsburg State University Why does it matter? -- Revisited Wherein the arguments of the rest of the exhibit are brought together and put together into a functioning thesis. Gallery A gallery of the media used within the exhibit.

Why does it matter?

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For a collection to focus on a certain person in a certain area, it seems like an inconsequential design. However, the design of this exhibit is to allow the viewers to understand the larger significance of the collection. 
Simple letters such as this one can seem to be not influential or meaningful. On its own, it might not be, in the same way that the collection by itself may not seem influential. Studies of the concepts of what's called "microcosms" reveals that trends located in the smaller level can be extrapolated into the larger "macrocosm." Don Parry Norford, a writer for A Journal of the History of Ideas, discusses this concept in the context of literature. He said: "The individual, as Cassirere explains, has a paradoxical relationship to the world: one's will and knowledge are completely turned toward the world and yet at the same time completely distinguished from it."

Extrapolating this knowledge of micro-society and macro-society, this exhibit intends to use the concept of distant reading to provide a larger context to this rather specific collection. Through the use of distant reading, however, the letter shown above, for example, combined with others provides access to patterns and trends. This exhibit utilizes the Voyant website and its text analysis tools, along with academic journals and organization themed websites in order to maintain its research.

First, we begin with the basic text analysis of the collection.

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