Jordan Ryan
@jordanryan.bsky.social
archives + archaeology + architecture
Mapping Inequality, the digital humanities platform for exploring redlining maps & data, launched in 2016. Never in my wildest dreams did I think they would ask me to write an essay on Indianapolis! It is an absolute honor to be included in this project:
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...
Mapping Inequality
Redlining in New Deal America
dsl.richmond.edu
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Mapping Inequality, the digital humanities platform for exploring redlining maps & data, launched in 2016. Never in my wildest dreams did I think they would ask me to write an essay on Indianapolis! It is an absolute honor to be included in this project:
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...
dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/red...
Beautiful weekend away 🧡
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Beautiful weekend away 🧡
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Today is World Day of Remembrance — a global event to remember those killed or seriously injured on our streets.
Read more about this day, and our call to action for the City of Indianapolis, at the link below.
#WDoR2025 #SafeStreetsIndy #Indianapolis #HoosierSky #VisionZero
Read more about this day, and our call to action for the City of Indianapolis, at the link below.
#WDoR2025 #SafeStreetsIndy #Indianapolis #HoosierSky #VisionZero
Safe Streets Indy
Advocating for Safe Streets in Indianapolis, Indiana.
safestreetsindy.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today is World Day of Remembrance — a global event to remember those killed or seriously injured on our streets.
Read more about this day, and our call to action for the City of Indianapolis, at the link below.
#WDoR2025 #SafeStreetsIndy #Indianapolis #HoosierSky #VisionZero
Read more about this day, and our call to action for the City of Indianapolis, at the link below.
#WDoR2025 #SafeStreetsIndy #Indianapolis #HoosierSky #VisionZero
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
🍁 “I’ve got an idea. Let’s go outside.” 🍁
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🍁 “I’ve got an idea. Let’s go outside.” 🍁
Thank you @mirrorindy.org for featuring Deedee our reference archivist and her amazing work to identify historic glass negatives held at the Irvington Historical Society: mirrorindy.org/historic-pho...
You have until Nov 30 to see the exhibit!
You have until Nov 30 to see the exhibit!
The lost photographs of Osbert Sumner
Historian Deedee Davis’ research began seven years ago to tell a different story of life in Indianapolis from 1898-1903.
mirrorindy.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Thank you @mirrorindy.org for featuring Deedee our reference archivist and her amazing work to identify historic glass negatives held at the Irvington Historical Society: mirrorindy.org/historic-pho...
You have until Nov 30 to see the exhibit!
You have until Nov 30 to see the exhibit!
Thanks IndyStar for celebrating Archives Month with local public, nonprofit, university, and governmental archives ❤️
www.indystar.com/story/opinio...
www.indystar.com/story/opinio...
Indiana's archives preserve more than history — they protect the truth | Opinion
Every family does something important. No history is insignificant. Our archives make sure we remember that.
www.indystar.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Thanks IndyStar for celebrating Archives Month with local public, nonprofit, university, and governmental archives ❤️
www.indystar.com/story/opinio...
www.indystar.com/story/opinio...
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Remember, according to the Republican Justices, it's okay to gerrymander for party advantage, not racial advantage. It's an unknowable distinction, but one that allows the Republicans to okay racist gerrymandering under the guise of political gerrymandering.
October 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Remember, according to the Republican Justices, it's okay to gerrymander for party advantage, not racial advantage. It's an unknowable distinction, but one that allows the Republicans to okay racist gerrymandering under the guise of political gerrymandering.
The civic shame of it all
October 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The civic shame of it all
Exhibit Columbus installations + Alexander Girard exhibit today with Dad 💯
October 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Exhibit Columbus installations + Alexander Girard exhibit today with Dad 💯
A fabulous week in Fort Wayne at the statewide historic preservation conference.
October 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A fabulous week in Fort Wayne at the statewide historic preservation conference.
📣 Excited to share that What a Building Does: The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen is available for pre-order!
Phillip Cox & Niall Cronin brilliantly tell the story of Woollen and his firm's journey from Midcentury Modernism to Brutalism to Postmodernism.
Pre-order: iupress.org/978025307410...
Phillip Cox & Niall Cronin brilliantly tell the story of Woollen and his firm's journey from Midcentury Modernism to Brutalism to Postmodernism.
Pre-order: iupress.org/978025307410...
September 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
📣 Excited to share that What a Building Does: The Hoosier Modernisms of Evans Woollen is available for pre-order!
Phillip Cox & Niall Cronin brilliantly tell the story of Woollen and his firm's journey from Midcentury Modernism to Brutalism to Postmodernism.
Pre-order: iupress.org/978025307410...
Phillip Cox & Niall Cronin brilliantly tell the story of Woollen and his firm's journey from Midcentury Modernism to Brutalism to Postmodernism.
Pre-order: iupress.org/978025307410...
RIP the Albert Kahn-designed Crane Bay, what a sad loss
These photos are from July 2019. I just had this sick feeling the last crane bay wouldn’t survive
The tangible context of:
Industrial history
Labor history
West side neighborhood history
Gone.
#thisplacemattered
These photos are from July 2019. I just had this sick feeling the last crane bay wouldn’t survive
The tangible context of:
Industrial history
Labor history
West side neighborhood history
Gone.
#thisplacemattered
September 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
RIP the Albert Kahn-designed Crane Bay, what a sad loss
These photos are from July 2019. I just had this sick feeling the last crane bay wouldn’t survive
The tangible context of:
Industrial history
Labor history
West side neighborhood history
Gone.
#thisplacemattered
These photos are from July 2019. I just had this sick feeling the last crane bay wouldn’t survive
The tangible context of:
Industrial history
Labor history
West side neighborhood history
Gone.
#thisplacemattered
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I just rolled up to what I assumed was a public unveiling of a sculpture at Elanco but when I rolled up I was immediately turned away by this gentleman
Who said I couldn't come back there
Then he asked the guy walking up if he was there for the art unveiling and let him thru 😉
Who said I couldn't come back there
Then he asked the guy walking up if he was there for the art unveiling and let him thru 😉
September 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I just rolled up to what I assumed was a public unveiling of a sculpture at Elanco but when I rolled up I was immediately turned away by this gentleman
Who said I couldn't come back there
Then he asked the guy walking up if he was there for the art unveiling and let him thru 😉
Who said I couldn't come back there
Then he asked the guy walking up if he was there for the art unveiling and let him thru 😉
September 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The Henry Street Bridge Project's Greenlawn Cemetery excavation is well over 1,500 grave shafts now on our little 1.5 acre strip.
Don't forget to follow along on our project website where we provide updates for the public: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
Don't forget to follow along on our project website where we provide updates for the public: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
September 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The Henry Street Bridge Project's Greenlawn Cemetery excavation is well over 1,500 grave shafts now on our little 1.5 acre strip.
Don't forget to follow along on our project website where we provide updates for the public: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
Don't forget to follow along on our project website where we provide updates for the public: wridinfrastructure.com/archaeology/...
🪦 Happy archaeology month 🪦
The City-County Archives was thrilled to table at the Indiana State Museum’s Archaeology Family Discovery Day yesterday. We shared historic maps and deed research with guests. Some guests made their own marker/monuments. Thank you to all who stopped by!
The City-County Archives was thrilled to table at the Indiana State Museum’s Archaeology Family Discovery Day yesterday. We shared historic maps and deed research with guests. Some guests made their own marker/monuments. Thank you to all who stopped by!
September 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🪦 Happy archaeology month 🪦
The City-County Archives was thrilled to table at the Indiana State Museum’s Archaeology Family Discovery Day yesterday. We shared historic maps and deed research with guests. Some guests made their own marker/monuments. Thank you to all who stopped by!
The City-County Archives was thrilled to table at the Indiana State Museum’s Archaeology Family Discovery Day yesterday. We shared historic maps and deed research with guests. Some guests made their own marker/monuments. Thank you to all who stopped by!
Yesterday marked our final Archives teaching day for our Indyology internship. The students learned about memorialization from Leon Bates & Ahmaud Carroll-Tubbs, looking at national examples, then designed their own memorials for our cemetery. They then sculpted monuments to place in their designs.
July 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Yesterday marked our final Archives teaching day for our Indyology internship. The students learned about memorialization from Leon Bates & Ahmaud Carroll-Tubbs, looking at national examples, then designed their own memorials for our cemetery. They then sculpted monuments to place in their designs.
The City-County Archives went on a great field trip yesterday, visiting Ball State’s architectural archivist Cody Sprunger. We learned about DIY humidification chambers to make our architectural drawing collection work more efficient. And of course we had to end the trip with some Pizza King!
July 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The City-County Archives went on a great field trip yesterday, visiting Ball State’s architectural archivist Cody Sprunger. We learned about DIY humidification chambers to make our architectural drawing collection work more efficient. And of course we had to end the trip with some Pizza King!
Thanks to everyone who attended our Greenlawn Cemetery excavation + Henry Street Bridge project public information meeting. I am excited to see where the research takes us in the next few years. In case you missed the meeting, the presentation slides are here: wridinfrastructure.com/june-2024-up...
July 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thanks to everyone who attended our Greenlawn Cemetery excavation + Henry Street Bridge project public information meeting. I am excited to see where the research takes us in the next few years. In case you missed the meeting, the presentation slides are here: wridinfrastructure.com/june-2024-up...
Last week we hit a new benchmark on the Henry Street Bridge Project excavation - reaching over 1,000 graveshafts identified. Not even 50% through our excavation. On our tiny, 1.5 acre parcel of a larger 25 acre cemetery.
July 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Last week we hit a new benchmark on the Henry Street Bridge Project excavation - reaching over 1,000 graveshafts identified. Not even 50% through our excavation. On our tiny, 1.5 acre parcel of a larger 25 acre cemetery.
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He was humiliated last weekend. This weekend he bombed someone.
My guess is there is a relationship between those two events.
My guess is there is a relationship between those two events.
June 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
He was humiliated last weekend. This weekend he bombed someone.
My guess is there is a relationship between those two events.
My guess is there is a relationship between those two events.
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New from me in Mas Context: In February NPS removed Transgender and Queer from the Stonewall National Monument website. NPS also removed LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History—the 1st federal account of the LGBTQ community.
Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth
In February 2025, under the orders of the Trump administration, the National Park Service (NPS) removed the words “Transgender” and “Queer” from the…
mascontext.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
New from me in Mas Context: In February NPS removed Transgender and Queer from the Stonewall National Monument website. NPS also removed LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History—the 1st federal account of the LGBTQ community.
I’m shattered.
Our traffic calming project survived 2 months before a motorist wrecked through it.
Listen to neighborhoods when they tell you we need more traffic calming measures.
Pedestrians and cyclists are not safe. 💔
Our traffic calming project survived 2 months before a motorist wrecked through it.
Listen to neighborhoods when they tell you we need more traffic calming measures.
Pedestrians and cyclists are not safe. 💔
June 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I’m shattered.
Our traffic calming project survived 2 months before a motorist wrecked through it.
Listen to neighborhoods when they tell you we need more traffic calming measures.
Pedestrians and cyclists are not safe. 💔
Our traffic calming project survived 2 months before a motorist wrecked through it.
Listen to neighborhoods when they tell you we need more traffic calming measures.
Pedestrians and cyclists are not safe. 💔
Special thanks to my reference archivist who surprised me & assembled this model before a tour. This is a rejected proposed plan for the GM stamping plant. It’s a great artifact and teaching tool that captures a moment in time of the downtown and west side’s built environment.
#whatanarchivistdoes
#whatanarchivistdoes
June 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Special thanks to my reference archivist who surprised me & assembled this model before a tour. This is a rejected proposed plan for the GM stamping plant. It’s a great artifact and teaching tool that captures a moment in time of the downtown and west side’s built environment.
#whatanarchivistdoes
#whatanarchivistdoes