Monday, December 22, 2008
Images of southwest Indiana online
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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, 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. |
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