Library of Congress/Ameritech awards

Ten libraries from across the United States have been given awards
totaling $600,000 through a partnership between the Library of Congress
and Ameritech to digitize historically significant American collections
and make them available for the first time via the Internet from the
Library's American Memory site.

The 10 winners are:

    *   Brown University, Providence, R.I., for African-American
        Sheet Music. Award amount: $72,193.  This collection
        consists of 1,500 pieces of African-American sheet music
        from 1870 to 1920, providing a window into the daily
        concerns and pastimes of African Americans in the 19th and
        early 20th centuries.

    *   Denver Public Library, Denver, for History of the American
        West, 1860-1920.  Award amount: $71,250. This collection
        includes 7,500 photos documenting the lives of the Plains,
        Mountain and Southwestern tribes of Native Americans and the
        mining booms in Colorado, plus access to 48,000 previously
        digitized images in the Denver Western History Collection.

    *   Duke University, Durham, N.C., for Historic American Sheet
        Music. Award amount: $64,688. This collection consists of
        3,000 pieces of historic American sheet music from the
        period 1850-1920, representing a wide variety of musical
        types including bel canto; minstrel songs; protest,
        political and patriotic songs; plantation songs; spirituals;
        songs from vaudeville, musicals, and Tin Pan Alley; World
        War I compositions; and Civil War battle songs.

    *   Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., for American Landscape
        and Architectural Design, 1850-1920.  Award amount: $33,214.
        This collection consists of 2,500 lantern slide images
        assembled to support teaching and student presentations in
        the field of architecture, landscape architecture and urban
        planning.

    *   New York Public Library, New York City, for Small Town
        America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection,
        1850-1910.  Award amount: $74,956.  This collection includes
        11,552 stereoscopic views representing the tri-state area of
        New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

    *   North Dakota State University, Fargo, for The Northern Great
        Plains, 1880-1920.  Award amount: $15,628.  These
        collections include more than 900 images documenting the
        settlement and agricultural development of the Northern
        Great Plains.

    *   Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, for The African-American
        Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920. Award amount: $72,844.  This
        digital collection of 22,000 pages of text and images
        focuses on themes such as slavery and emancipation,
        religion, public opinion and political action.

    *   University of Chicago, Chicago, for American Environmental
        Photographs, 1897-1931.  Award amount: $67,418.  This
        collection of 5,800 photographic images documents natural
        environments, ecologies, and plant communities in their
        original state throughout the United States.

    *   University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for First-Person
        Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920.  Award amount:
        $74,782. This compilation of 100 printed texts documents the
        culture of the 19th century American South from the
        viewpoint of Southerners and includes diaries,
        autobiographies, memoirs, travel accounts and ex-slave
        narratives.

    *   University of Texas, Austin, for The South Texas Border,
        1900- 1920.  Award amount: $46,945. This collection consists
        of 8,241 photographs of northeastern Mexico and the South
        Texas border area, including images of the diverse ethnic
        groups living in the area, military preparation for the
        Mexican Revolution and World War I, and the natural and
        built environment.

Additional information on the Library of Congress/Ameritech National
Digital Library Competition is available at: the Library's Web site
<URL:http://www.loc.gov/>, the Library of Congress/Ameritech
National Digital Library Competition Web site
<URL:http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/>, and the Ameritech Web site
<URL:http://www.ameritech.com>

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                  Conservation DistList Instance 10:88
                 Distributed: Thursday, April 10, 1997
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