LC/Ameritech Awards Announcement
Paulson, Barbara (mailto:BPaulson@NEH.GOV)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 10:48:41 -0400
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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 10:48:41 -0400
From: "Paulson, Barbara" <mailto:BPaulson@NEH.GOV>
Subject: LC/Ameritech Awards Announcement
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
> Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition
> Announces the 1997/98 Award Winners
>
> With a gift from Ameritech, the Library of Congress is sponsoring a
> three-year competition to enable public, research, and
> academic libraries, museums, historical societies, and archival
> institutions (except federal institutions) to create digital
> collections of primary resources. Eleven institutions received seven
> awards in the second year of the competition. The
> postmark deadline for the third competition year is November 2, 1998.
> For further information, see the competition
> homepage at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award.
>
> Chicago Historical Society, Haymarket Affair: Chicago Anarchists on
> Trial
> Approximately 5,500 pages/images including the complete original
> transcripts of the proceedings of the historic
> Haymarket trial; the evidence books;' the original draft
> autobiographies written by two of the Haymarket defendants, and
> numerous pamphlets, accounts, and pictorial portrayals of the events
> in the popular press of the time. Contact person:
> Bernard Reilly, (312) 642-5035, mailto:reilly@chicagohs.org.
>
> Duke University, The Emergence of Advertising in America, 1850-1920
> 8,500 images relating to the history of advertising including Eastman
> Kodak ads, tobacco related posters and insert
> cards, and ephemera representing ads for bicycles, patent medicines,
> and food. Contact person: Ellen Gartrell, (919)
> 660-5836, mailto:egg@mail.lib.duke.edu.
>
> Nebraska State Historical Society, Prairie Settlement: A Story of
> Determination
> 2,500 glass plate negatives of images recording the process of
> settlement of Nebraska between 1886 and 1912 and
> approximately 3,000 pages from diaries and letters written by the
> Oblinger family as they moved from Indiana to settle in a
> sod house on the prairie. Contact person: Jill Marie Koelling, (402)
> 471-4409, mailto:koelling@nebraskahistory.org.
>
> Northwestern University, North American Indian Photographs by Edward
> S. Curtis
> 2,222 plates from one of the best recognized and most significant
> records ever produced of the culture and daily life of
> about 80 Native American tribes. Contact person: Richard Frieder,
> (847) 491-4672, mailto:frieder@nwu.edu.
>
> University of Iowa, Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the
> Twentieth Century
> 38,000 talent flyers and promotional pamphlets representing text and
> images from performers and public speakers,
> including educational, cultural and religious lecturers, politicians,
> as well as vaudeville and variety acts. Contact person:
> Carol Hughes, (319) 335-5900, mailto:carol_hughes@uiowa.edu.
>
> University of Miami, Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's
> Natural History, 1884-1934
> A consortial collection that includes materials from the University of
> Miami, Florida International University, and the
> Historical Museum of South Florida. The collection documents the
> history of South Florida, especially the Everglades,
> which is a unique subtropical ecosystem that has a rich, but troubled
> history. Contact person: William E. Brown, Jr., (305)
> 284-3247, mailto:wbrown@umiami.ir.miami.edu.
>
> University of Washington, American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
> A consortial collection that includes materials from the University of
> Washington, the Eastern Washington State Historical
> Society in Spokane, and the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle.
> The collection consists of 2,350 pictorial images
> and 6000 pages of selections from manuscripts, printed ephemera and
> journal articles concerning Native Americans of the
> Pacific Northwest from 1763 to 1920. Contact person: Gary Menges,
> (206) 543-1929, mailto:menges@u.washington.edu.
>
>
> 4/29/98
> (202) 707-1087
>