Message-Id: <199912172207.PAA25442@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:18:49 -0500 From: Tamara Swora-Gober <mailto:tswo@LOC.GOV> Subject: LC NDLP/Ameritech Competition announces release of The African To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
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The Library of Congress National Digital Library and the Ameritech Competition announce the release of “The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920”. The collection from the Ohio Historical Society is the ninth LC/Ameritech collection to come online. It can be found at the following URL:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/aaeohome.html
This selection of manuscript, printed text and images drawn from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society illuminates the history of black Ohio from 1850 to 1920, a story of slavery and freedom, segregation and integration, religion and politics, migrations and restrictions, harmony and discord, and struggles and successes. Several categories of material are incorporated into the collection: 4,000 manuscript items including personal papers of prominent individuals and 27 ex-slave narratives from the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project, 24 pamphlets, speeches, and reports, 309 pictures selected from over 20 collections, over 15,000 articles selected from from 11 Ohio newspapers about African Americans and issues affecting them, and over 200 articles from the African Methodist Episcopal Church Review and other materials published by the church.
To browse by category, see
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/aaeobrowse.html
Digitizing the Collection: All of the source materials are from the Ohio Historical Society where they were scanned by the Society. For this collection, the image files are mounted and the page-turning presentations generated at the Ohio Historical Society. The Society uses Microsoft Access to manage the database of descriptive records and Cold Fusion software to generate the web presentation of the content.
Due to the variety of materials involved in the project, various scanners were used. The microfilm materials (primarily newspapers) were scanned using a Minolta MS3000 scanner. A Minolta PS 3000 overhead scanner was used to scan serials, pamphlets and manuscript materials. Photographs were scanned using a Hewlett Packard ScanJet 6100C flatbed scanner. All items were scanned at 400 dpi. TIFFs were created for all images.
Please direct all comments and questions about this site to mailto:ndlpcoll@loc.gov