Thanks very much for watching and commenting! Glad that you found the video and channel interesting! Indeed, the Scharf map(s) can provide much guidance for those that have an interest in this fascinating topic. Thanks again!
A fascinating and melancholy tale. Thank you for telling it. There seems to be so little detailed history of the native populations in the Chicago area, glad to see you are sharing that information to a wider audience.
Thanks very much for watching the video and for commenting! Yes, fully agreed that little is documented on Chicago area archeological sites. We fully understand the need to protect these sites - but the cost is that the general public knows little or nothing about the people that lived here for thousands of years - and were unceremoniously pushed out just a few hundred years ago. Thanks again for the comment!
Thanks for doing this video. I have always been fascinated by Scharf’s maps. I’m curious about the source of the wonderful drawings of Scharf. They are really well done.
Thanks for watching, commenting, and supporting our channel! Indeed, his maps are fairly well done, if you excuse the occasional flight of fancy. The way we see the maps, it records the "hot spots" for archeology in the Chicago region (although it does miss some major sites as well), based mostly upon personal finds and interviews with locals (who themselves dug up quite a bit of material). We have run onto people who are very dismissive of his maps - but in the context of 1900 knowledge, it was a major step forward - and demonstrated what an amateur could do over the course of many years to contribute towards the emerging science of archeology. Thanks again for watching!
Thank you for this in=depth presentation on Albert Scharf life and his work on trails used Native Americans and the locations of where they lived. I appreciated the research that you did on Albert Scharf's life and the way that you presented that information to us. Sone of Albert Scharf's interpretations of what he was looking at were inaccurate. His maps also had some flaws. Despite these problems, the work that Albert Scharf did to uncover information on Native American trails and settlements has provided researchers and archeologists who came after him with information that has been helpful to them in locating Native American sites in the Northeast portion of Illinois. (Posted on 8 January 2025 at 2052 CST.)
Thank you so much for watching the video and for taking the time to write a thoughtful comment and set of observations! We very much appreciate your ongoing support and your willingness for us to go off in different topics of interest. Thanks again!
Most likely Scharf stay at the Elgin Asylum as an orderly most of the time. The Dollar$ amounts are rather small and probably were part of employment .. It is evident that the maps look to be made over plat maps and other surveys using drafting copying methods that he filled in, thus he has access to maps and other resources, probably through acquaintances.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply and observations! And thanks too for watching the video and taking the time to comment! It is most appreciated! Your comment about Scharf being an orderly is interesting ... but one wonders why he didn't mention that - and more importantly, why his family would have made him the subject of an insanity hearing, if he was simply an orderly at the asylum? It's an interesting point to be sure. Perhaps at some point in the future, we'll have the opportunity to dig into the Elgin Asylum records to verify whether he was a patient or resident there, sometime in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Thanks again!
Thanks for the comment/question. Are you referring to the Zouaves in general? Or to Albert Scharf being recruited into the Zouaves? Regarding the latter, many young men were drawn into this visually exciting and highly disciplined corps, which itself became a recruiting tool for both armies in the Civil War. Based on Scharf's autobiography, his involvement in the Zouaves was on the order of several months.
Good channel for us curious locals. Great job, guys! The map in question has let me to interesting places.
Thanks very much for watching and commenting! Glad that you found the video and channel interesting! Indeed, the Scharf map(s) can provide much guidance for those that have an interest in this fascinating topic. Thanks again!
A fascinating and melancholy tale. Thank you for telling it. There seems to be so little detailed history of the native populations in the Chicago area, glad to see you are sharing that information to a wider audience.
Thanks very much for watching the video and for commenting! Yes, fully agreed that little is documented on Chicago area archeological sites. We fully understand the need to protect these sites - but the cost is that the general public knows little or nothing about the people that lived here for thousands of years - and were unceremoniously pushed out just a few hundred years ago. Thanks again for the comment!
Thanks for doing this video. I have always been fascinated by Scharf’s maps. I’m curious about the source of the wonderful drawings of Scharf. They are really well done.
Thanks for watching, commenting, and supporting our channel! Indeed, his maps are fairly well done, if you excuse the occasional flight of fancy. The way we see the maps, it records the "hot spots" for archeology in the Chicago region (although it does miss some major sites as well), based mostly upon personal finds and interviews with locals (who themselves dug up quite a bit of material). We have run onto people who are very dismissive of his maps - but in the context of 1900 knowledge, it was a major step forward - and demonstrated what an amateur could do over the course of many years to contribute towards the emerging science of archeology. Thanks again for watching!
Thank you for this in=depth presentation on Albert Scharf life and his work on trails used Native Americans and the locations of where they lived. I appreciated the research that you did on Albert Scharf's life and the way that you presented that information to us. Sone of Albert Scharf's interpretations of what he was looking at were inaccurate. His maps also had some flaws. Despite these problems, the work that Albert Scharf did to uncover information on Native American trails and settlements has provided researchers and archeologists who came after him with information that has been helpful to them in locating Native American sites in the Northeast portion of Illinois. (Posted on 8 January 2025 at 2052 CST.)
Thank you so much for watching the video and for taking the time to write a thoughtful comment and set of observations! We very much appreciate your ongoing support and your willingness for us to go off in different topics of interest. Thanks again!
Most likely Scharf stay at the Elgin Asylum as an orderly most of the time. The Dollar$ amounts are rather small and probably were part of employment .. It is evident that the maps look to be made over plat maps and other surveys using drafting copying methods that he filled in, thus he has access to maps and other resources, probably through acquaintances.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply and observations! And thanks too for watching the video and taking the time to comment! It is most appreciated! Your comment about Scharf being an orderly is interesting ... but one wonders why he didn't mention that - and more importantly, why his family would have made him the subject of an insanity hearing, if he was simply an orderly at the asylum? It's an interesting point to be sure. Perhaps at some point in the future, we'll have the opportunity to dig into the Elgin Asylum records to verify whether he was a patient or resident there, sometime in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Thanks again!
5:35 How does this make sense?
Thanks for the comment/question. Are you referring to the Zouaves in general? Or to Albert Scharf being recruited into the Zouaves? Regarding the latter, many young men were drawn into this visually exciting and highly disciplined corps, which itself became a recruiting tool for both armies in the Civil War. Based on Scharf's autobiography, his involvement in the Zouaves was on the order of several months.
I think they are trying to make sense of the cigar making? Right?
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