LC NDLP/Ameritech Competition announces release of The African American Experience in Ohio

[Tamara Swora-Gober <tswo@xxxxxxx>]

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The Library of Congress National Digital Library and the Ameritech
Competition announce the release of ?The African-American Experience in
Ohio, 1850-1920?.  The collection from the Ohio Historical Society is
the ninth LC/Ameritech collection to come online.  It can be found at
the following URL:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/aaeohome.html

This selection of manuscript, printed text and images drawn from the
collections of the Ohio Historical Society illuminates the history of
black Ohio from 1850 to 1920, a story of slavery and freedom,
segregation and integration, religion and politics, migrations and
restrictions, harmony and discord, and struggles and successes.  Several
categories of material are incorporated into the collection:  4,000
manuscript items including personal papers of prominent individuals and
27 ex-slave narratives from the Works Progress Administration Federal
Writers' Project, 24 pamphlets, speeches, and reports, 309 pictures
selected from over 20 collections, over 15,000 articles selected from
from 11 Ohio newspapers about African Americans and issues affecting
them, and over 200 articles from the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Review and other materials published by the church.

To browse by category, see

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/aaeobrowse.html

Digitizing the Collection:
All of the source materials are from the Ohio Historical Society where
they were scanned by the Society.  For this collection, the image files
are mounted and the page-turning presentations generated at the Ohio
Historical Society.  The Society uses Microsoft Access to manage the
database of descriptive records and Cold Fusion software to generate the
web presentation of the content.  

Due to the variety of materials involved in the project, various
scanners were used.  The microfilm materials (primarily newspapers) were
scanned using a Minolta MS3000 scanner.  A Minolta PS 3000 overhead
scanner was used to scan serials, pamphlets and manuscript materials. 
Photographs were scanned using a Hewlett Packard ScanJet 6100C flatbed
scanner.  All items were scanned at 400 dpi. TIFFs were created for all images.

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