John C. Harris John C. Harris is driven to unite communities with their past to help inform their navigation of the present and generate a chance to reimagine their futures. He studied Public History at St. John’s University and has worked in archives and museums of varying sizes in New York City. As the Archives Committee Coordinator at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) he has planned and led processing, cataloging, and digitization projects that culminate in digital exhibits and programs which utilize a relevant understanding of the Lower East Side community’s history.
Bryan Zehngut-Willits is a volunteer at MoRUS where he serves as a digital collections and archives consultant and a member of the archives committee. He is a PhD candidate at New York University studying the United States in the world during the long nineteenth century specializing in immigration, global migrations, and U.S imperialism. Zehngut-Willits has also worked in education and exhibitions departments at major museums in New York City, and holds an advanced certificate in public history. He also serves as the Digital and Public Communications Coordinator for the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Zehngut-Willits strives to combine digital scholarly methods with years of experience in the field of public history to create accessible and engaging digital history projects that can bring cutting edge scholarship to researchers, students, and public audiences.
We ask that any citation of this project as a whole credit John C. Harris, Stephanie Zambrana, and Bryan Zehngut-Willits (E.G. Harris, John C., Stephanie Zambrana, and Bryan Zehngut-Willits, Fly Prints Collection, https://morusnyc.github.io/flyprints/).
[Creator], [Title], [Description], [Source], [Date], From the Fly Prints Collection at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space.
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