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Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@RS8.LOC.GOV>
Poster: "Elizabeth L. Brown" <ebro@LOC.GOV>
Subject: New American Memory collection online
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Dear Fellows,
This is from an informal notice distributed at LC. A more formal press
announcement will probably be along later.
Betty
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New American Memory collection online
March 5th, 1999
The South Texas Border, 1900-1920
Photographs from the Robert Runyon Photograph Collection from The General
Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/txuhtml/runyhome.html
or more simply:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/txuhtml/
This is the third collection from another institution to be integrated into
American Memory through the Library of Congress / Ameritech National
Digital Library Competition.
The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Area, a
collection of over 8,000 items, is a unique visual resource documenting the
Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s. Donated by the Runyon
family to the Center for American History in 1986, it includes glass
negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards,
representing the life's work of commercial photographer Robert Runyon
(1881-1968), a longtime resident of South Texas. His photographs document
the history and development of South Texas and the border, including the
Mexican Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Fort Brown and along the
border prior to and during World War I, and the growth and development of
the Rio Grande Valley.
The source materials for this collection are housed at the Center for
American History at the University of Texas at Austin. In contrast to the
LC/Ameritech collections from Harvard University and North Dakota State
University, the digital images (and most of the accompanying introductory
materials) are mounted at the University of Texas. Read the
"Interoperability" section of "Building the Digital Collection" for more
details.
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Elizabeth L. Brown, Reference Librarian, etc.
National Digital Library Program, LIBN/NDL/VC(1330)
Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540-1330
ebro@loc.gov telephone: 202/707-2235
Library of Congress American Memory Home Page:
http://memory.loc.gov/
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