Jordan Ryan
@jordanryan.bsky.social
archives + archaeology + architecture
Thanks to @indymonthly.bsky.social for visiting the City-County Archives and chatting about the “legal, historical, and ethical minefield” of work surrounding our Greenlawn Cemetery excavation.
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Read Our One-On-One With City-County Archivist Jordan Ryan
After the Henry Street bridge project recently got under way, Jordan Ryan's role came into play as the city-county archivist.
www.indianapolismonthly.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Thanks to @indymonthly.bsky.social for visiting the City-County Archives and chatting about the “legal, historical, and ethical minefield” of work surrounding our Greenlawn Cemetery excavation.
www.indianapolismonthly.com/arts-and-cul...
www.indianapolismonthly.com/arts-and-cul...
Really excited about this project - the City's response for a missing middles housing pattern book! ❤️
Pull the RFQ here: www.indy.gov/workflow/fin...
Pull the RFQ here: www.indy.gov/workflow/fin...
February 14, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Really excited about this project - the City's response for a missing middles housing pattern book! ❤️
Pull the RFQ here: www.indy.gov/workflow/fin...
Pull the RFQ here: www.indy.gov/workflow/fin...
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
January 19, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
You know you’ve made it as a municipal archivist when your Xmas gifts from dad are: a collage of materials from a demolition contractor who demo’d most lost city landmarks, Indiana world war memorial plaza ephemera, and an ashtray from the Lincoln Hotel
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
You know you’ve made it as a municipal archivist when your Xmas gifts from dad are: a collage of materials from a demolition contractor who demo’d most lost city landmarks, Indiana world war memorial plaza ephemera, and an ashtray from the Lincoln Hotel
It’s hard building a municipal archive from scratch. Despite all the obstacles, we accomplished a lot this year.
-108 reference questions answered
-40 tours for ~150 people
-8 lectures/panels for ~600 people
-340 volunteer hours
-doubled our vault and storage space
-est online presence
-108 reference questions answered
-40 tours for ~150 people
-8 lectures/panels for ~600 people
-340 volunteer hours
-doubled our vault and storage space
-est online presence
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It’s hard building a municipal archive from scratch. Despite all the obstacles, we accomplished a lot this year.
-108 reference questions answered
-40 tours for ~150 people
-8 lectures/panels for ~600 people
-340 volunteer hours
-doubled our vault and storage space
-est online presence
-108 reference questions answered
-40 tours for ~150 people
-8 lectures/panels for ~600 people
-340 volunteer hours
-doubled our vault and storage space
-est online presence
Mental health break ✌️
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Mental health break ✌️
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!