Images of Southwest Indiana Online
More than 1,400 images reflecting a photographic history of southwest
Indiana are available online for viewing at the Indiana Memory project
web site.
The University Archives and Special Collections of Rice Library received
a grant through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by
the Indiana State Library, to digitize photographs from its extensive
collection for the project.
Jennifer Greene '04, reference/Archives librarian, said, “We have gone to
painstaking measure to include many addresses, names, business names,
and anything else we could identify in these photos.”
The database is fully searchable. The photos now online include about
1,000 from the 1937 flood.
Other photographs online now at Indiana Memory are from the Rice
Library’s African-American Collection (including the Charlotte Glover
Moody, Dr. Charles Rochelle, and Alfred Porter collections) and the
Hammond-Awe Collection, an architectural collection featuring
Evansville’s historic district and downtown.
Photos from other Rice Library collections will be added to Indiana
Memory. These will include photographs made from the late 1800s to the
1950s by Evansville Courier photographer Thomas Mueller, photos from the
1930s to the 1960s by studio photographer John Doane, and photos from
the 1880s to 1940s by New Harmony, Indiana, photographer Don Blair.
Greene said she expects to develop an online gallery for Rice Library in
2009-10. It will include images digitized for Indiana Memory, others
from the library’s collection of more than 15,000 photos, and additional
materials.
Indiana Memory is a collaborative effort to provide access to library
sources throughout the state.
Visit
www.usi.edu/library/rlic.asp to access the Indiana Memory project
from the USI web site or access it directly at
www.in.gov/memories.
