LC National Digital Library Program announces release of U. of Texas - Runyon Collection

[Tamara Swora-Gober <tswo@xxxxxxx>]

Cross-posted with apologies for duplication.
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The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the LC
National Digital Library Ameritech Competition announce the release of
the Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Area
from the University of Texas at : 
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/txuhtml/runyhome.html 

This Collection of the South Texas Border Area includes 8,000 items and
is a unique visual resource documenting the Lower Rio Grande Valley
during the early 1900s.  It is the third Library of Congress/Ameritech
National Digital Library Competition project to be integrated into the
American Memory online collections at:  
http://memory.loc.gov 

Donated by the Runyon family to the Center for American History in 1986,
the South Texas Border photographs include glass negatives, lantern
slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards, representing the
life's work of commercial photographer Robert Runyon (1881-1968), a
longtime resident of South Texas. His photographs document the history
and development of South Texas and the border, including the Mexican
Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Fort Brown and along the
border prior to and during World War I, and the growth and development
of the Rio Grande Valley.

National Digital Library Ameritech collections released previously are,
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920, from the Frances
Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University at:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html
and The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920, photographs from the Hulstrand
and Pazandak Photograph Collection at the Institute for Regional
Studies, North Dakota State University at:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ndfahtml/ngphome.html

The integration of the University of Texas collection and the
abovementioned collections with the Library of Congress American Memory
collections is made possible by a gift from Ameritech.  The Library of
Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition enables 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 collections of the National Digital Library
Program at the Library of Congress.  The National Digital Library is
envisioned as a distributed collection of converted library materials
and digital originals to which many American institutions will
contribute. 

For further information and questions, please contact:   ndlpcoll@xxxxxxx