Re: Steel Industry Photographs

From: Jean Krchnak (djk@UH.EDU)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2001 - 10:36:41 CDT 

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Date:         Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:36:41 -0600
From: Jean Krchnak <mailto:djk@UH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Steel Industry Photographs
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<pre> Kristine R. Brancolini:

The Historic American Engineering Record documents historically significant enginneering and industrial works throughout the Unites States. Thier archive currently includes more than 68,000 photographs, about 56,000 data pages and 3,500 measured drawings, These are housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress and are accessible online at www.loc.gov.

While the subjects covered are more than the steel industry, the site might be helpful.

Best of luck.

D. Jean Krchnak, Curator Architecture Visual Resources Room 122 Architecture Building Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture University of Houston Houston, Texas 77104-4000 713.743.2360 713.743.2358 fax mailto:djk@uh.edu www.arch.uh.edu

"Kristine R. Brancolini" wrote:
>
> We're working on a project to digitize 2,300 photographs from the U.S.
> Steel Gary Works and the city of Gary. The photographs date from 1906 to
> approximately 1941. Right now we're compiling a list of relevant subject
> headings from the Thesaurus of Graphic Materials to assign each image.
> We've looked at other photograph collections (notably from American
> Memory) and found some similar images, but we're wondering if anyone else
> has digitized and made accessible on the web a similar collection of
> photographs -- thousands of images related to the steel industry. If so,
> we would like to take a look at the list of subject headings that you
> used. For examples of the images and a fuller description of the project,
> please see: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/steel/steel.html
>
> Thanks! -- Kris
>
> Kristine R. Brancolini, Director, Digital Library Program
> Main Library E170, 1320 E. Tenth Street
> Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
> Phone: 812.855.3710 | Fax: 812.856.2062 | Web: www.dlib.indiana.edu

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