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Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@RS8.LOC.GOV>
Poster: Marta Brooks <marta@BIGSKY.NET>
Subject: Re: New collections - photos & music
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Elizabeth: I just want you to know that I truly appreciate the time you
take to send us these listings. In English 11 we're reading Frederick
Douglas, so your notice about the African American Perspectives and Brown
comes at a wonderful time. I just finished creating a viewing exercise
from these collections to reinforce our class study. Thank you so
much...Marta Brooks
At 12:27 PM 9/24/99 -0400, you wrote:
> Announcement of New Ameritech Collections
> Available Online as Part of American Memory
>
>With a gift from Ameritech the Library of Congress has
>sponsored a competition from 1996 to 1999 to enable
>public, research, and academic libraries, museums, historical
>societies, and archival institutions (except federal institutions)
>to create digital collections of primary resources. These
>digital collections will complement and enhance the collections
>of the National Digital Library Program at the Library of
>Congress.
>
>It is with pleasure that the Library announces the latest
>collections to be released as a part of the LC/Ameritech
>National Digital Library Competition:
>
>“American Environmental Photographs,1891-1936: Images
>from the University of Chicago Library” which can be found
>at the following URL:
><http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/icuhtml/>
>
>and
>
>“African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from
>the Collections of Brown University” which can be found
>at the following URL:
><http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/>.
>
>The American Environmental Photographs collection consists
>of 4500 photographs documenting natural environments,
>ecologies, and plant communities in their original state
>throughout the United States at the end of the nineteenth
>and the beginning of the twentieth century. Produced
>between 1897 and 1931 by a group of American botanists
>generally regarded as one of the most influential in the
>development of modern ecological studies, these photographs
>provide an overview of important representative natural
>landscapes in their original, or nearly original, condition
>throughout the United States. They demonstrate the character
>of a wide range of American topography, its forestation,
>aridity, shifting coastal dune complexes, and watercourses.
>Comparison of these early photographs with later views
>highlight the changes over the decades resulting from
>natural alterations of the landscape, disturbances from
>construction, mining, and industrialization, and effective
>natural resource usage. Henry Chandler Cowles (1869-1939)
>and other University of Chicago ecologists took the
>photographs on field trips across the North American
>continent.
>
>For additional information about this project please visit
>the page announcing the University of Chicago's award
>which can be found at
><http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/97award/chicago.html>.
>
>The African American Sheet Music collection consists of
>1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from
>1850-1920. The collection includes many songs from the
>heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and
>from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous
>titles are associated with the novel and the play Uncle Tom's
>Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about
>African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly
>emancipated slave. Post-Civil War music reflects the problems
>of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the
>northern migration of African Americans. African-American
>popular composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob
>Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook. Twentieth
>century titles feature many photographs of African-American
>musical performers, often in costume. Unlike many other sorts
>of published works, sheet music can be produced rapidly in
>response to an event or public interest, and thus is a source
>of relatively unmediated and unrevised perspectives on
>quickly changing events and public attitudes. Particularly
>significant in this collection are the visual depictions of
>African Americans, which provide much information about
>racial attitudes over the course of the nineteenth and early
>twentieth centuries.
>
>For additional information about this project please visit
>the page announcing the Brown University’s award which
>can be found at
><http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/97award/brown.html>.
>
>For information about the LC/Ameritech competition please
>visit the competition home page which can be found at
><http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/index.html>.
>
>Please send any questions about these collections to >Please send any questions about these collections to NDLPCOLL@loc.gov.
>
>
>
> _________________________________________________________
>
> Elizabeth L. Brown
> Automated Reference Services Librarian
> 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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