I recently attended an online seminar where I found out about some exciting digital history projects from across the country. Today, I'd like to share them with you:
The Queens Memory Project is a collection of images, documents, and oral histories chronicling the history of New York City's largest borough. It is a collaboration between the Queens (public) Library and Queens College, very similar to the Mass. Memories Road Show program we featured two weeks ago.
The Tompkins County Public Library online local history resources include images, books, genealogical databases, and a Local History Spotlight series.Tompkins County, New York -- location of both the city of Ithaca and Cornell University -- has a vibrant history that is being preserved and made more accessible by the library.
Nebraska Memories is a statewide cooperative project a lot like our own Digital Commonwealth portal here in Massachusetts. It contains more than 3,500 digitized items -- photographs, documents, artifacts, papers, manuscripts, maps and audio files -- from a dozen different institutions, and is maintained by the Nebraska Library Commission.
The Wyoming Newspaper Project is an ambitious undertaking that has already made more than 800,000 pages of local newspaper content fully searchable. The digital archive spans nearly three-quarters of a century from 1849 to 1922.
If none of these is helpful in your own research, take a look at the websites for your local libraries and historical societies. You might find something just as exciting.
--Robin
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