Subject: Four new "American Memory" collections
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:19:24 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130511b1d2ca3b061b@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:19:24 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: Four new "American Memory" collections
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
July 15, 1998
NEW AMERICAN MEMORY RELEASES AT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WEBSITE
Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html>
From the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the Farm
Security Administration - Office of War Information, 1935-1945
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html>
Buckaroos in Paradise: Cattle Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ncrhtml/crhome.html>
An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, 1490-1920
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html>
An eclectic covey of four new digitized collections has recently been
announced by the Library of Congress: 19th century railroad maps; 164,000
of the rather famous FSA photographs of depression America; motion
pictures and sound recordings documenting Nevadan cattle-ranching practice;
and some two hundred
social dance manuals.
David Green
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>Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:37:08 -0500
>From: Tamara Swora <tswo@loc.gov>
>To: david@ninch.org
>Subject: LC/NDLP releases four new collections
>
>The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program has released
>four new collections.
>
>(This message is being widely posted)
>
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>The first release with more to follow -- Railroad Maps, 1828-1900
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html
>
>The maps presented are a selection from the Geography and Map Divisions
>holdings, based on the popular cartobibliography, "Railroad maps of the
>United States: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Original
>19th-century Maps," in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of
>Congress. Additional railroad maps from this bibliography will be added
>throughout 1998. The digital images were created by staff in the
>Geography and Map Division by scanning the original map on a
>large-format (24 x 34 inches) flatbed scanner using RGB (red-
>green-blue) color separation. The TIFF files were compressed, using a
>wavelet-based image compressing software called Multi-Resolution
>Seamless Image Database, or MrSID. This software integrates multiple
>resolutions of an image in a single file which enables Internet users to
>zoom in, getting more and more detail.
>
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>The FSA/OWI photo collection -- From the Great
>Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
>
>The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information
>Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever
>produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the
>images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years,
>the project emphasized rural life and the impact of the Great
>Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the
>photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for
>World War II. The core of the collection consists of about 164,000
>black-and-white photographs. This release provides access to nearly
>45,000 of these images; future additions will expand the black-and-white
>offering. The FSA-OWI photographers also produced about 1600 color
>photographs during the latter days of the project.
>
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>Buckaroos in Paradise: Cattle Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada,
>1945-1982
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ncrhtml/crhome.html
>
>The Buckaroos in Paradise collection presents documentation of a Nevada
>cattle-ranching community created by the Paradise Valley Folklife
>Project, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch. This initial
>release includes 42 motion pictures and 28 sound recordings that
>document the work and life of the Ninety-Six Ranch and its cowboys,
>known in the region as buckaroos. In the next release, an archive of
>about 2,400 still photographs will portray the people, sites, and
>traditions in the larger community of Paradise Valley, home to persons
>of Northern Paiute Indian, Anglo-American,Italian, German, Basque,
>Swiss, and Chinese heritage. Most of the collection was created by the
>folklife research project,undertaken by the American Folklife Center
>from 1978 to 1982
>
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>The first release with video to follow later this year -- An American
>Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490- 1920
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html
>
>An American Ballroom Companion presents a collection of over two hundred
>social dance manuals at the Library of Congress. Along with dance
>instruction manuals, this online presentation also includes a
>significant number of histories, treatises on etiquette, and items from
>other conceptual categories. Many of the manuals also provide historical
>information on theatrical dance. All illuminate the manner in which
>people have joyfully expressed themselves as they dance for and with one
>another. Library of Congress staff selected this set of materials
>relating to ballroom dance from various divisions and collections in the
>Library. Selections came from the General Collections, the Music
>Division, and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
>
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