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Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@RS8.LOC.GOV>
Poster: "Elizabeth L. Brown" <ebro@LOC.GOV>
Subject: more of what's coming -- way down the road
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These collections will be coming well down the road... Some winners of the
first year of the competition are currently online.
Betty
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And the six winners of the final (third) year of the
Library of Congress / Ameritech National Digital Library Competition
are ... (in alphabetical order of lead institution)
Lee Library, Brigham Young University with the Utah Academic Library
Consortium, and the Utah State Historical Society
Pioneer Trails: Overland to Utah and the Pacific, 1847-1869
155 items (approximately 6,040 pages) from 59 diaries of overland
trail experiences written between 1847 and 1869, along with 16 maps,
75 photographs and illustrations, and selections from 5 immigrant
guides.
Michigan State University with Central Michigan University
Shaping the Values of Youth: A Nineteenth Century American Sunday
School Book Collection
121 American Sunday school books published between 1815 and 1865
by The American Tract Society, the American Sunday School Union,
and other religious publishers to teach juvenile readers moral
conduct and good citizenship.
Mystic Seaport Museum
Maritime Westward Expansion
7,500 items from the archival collections dating from the mid to
late nineteenth century, including logbooks, diaries, letters,
business papers and other manuscript items, images, imprints and
ephemera, and maps and charts offering a unique maritime perspective
on the history of westward expansion in the U.S.
The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, with the
California Historical Society
Chinese in California, 1850-1920
12,500 items, including photographs, cartoons, personal diaries,
business records, broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed matter
documenting nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese
immigration to California and the West.
University of Chicago Library with the Filson Club Historical Society of
Louisville, Kentucky
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
745 items (15,050 pages) from the rare books, pamphlets, newspapers,
maps, prints, and manuscripts collected by Reuben T. Durrett and by
the Filson Club Historical Society, documenting the settlement of
Ohio River Valley from 1750 to 1820.
[Also winners in 1996/97]
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Church in The Southern Black Community: Beginnings to 1920
19,000 pages from approximately 100 works, including
autobiographies, sermons, church reports, religious periodicals, and
denominational histories, tracing the experience of Southern African
Americans and the transformation of Protestant Christianity into the
central institution of black community life.
[Also winners in 1996/97.]
For more information on each project, see
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/99award/award99.html
For each project there is a link to a longer description.
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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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