Projects
Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897) General Collection) - The first American journal devoted to horticulture, botany, landscape design and preservation, national and urban park development, scientific forestry, and the conservation of forest resources. The digital reproduction consists of page images and searchable text for the complete ten volumes of the journal, comprising 8,400 pages, including over 1,000 illustrations and 2,000 pages of advertisements. The project included the use of Making of America (MOA) models to promote interoperability with MOA digital collections, and collaborations with University of Michigan and Harvard University. Digital reformatting was completed in 1999; Phase 1 of Web release was in December 1999.
Johannes De Musica (Performing Arts Reading Room). Attributed to Johannes Afflighemensis, this 12th century Latin musical treatise was handwritten on vellum. A collaborative project of the Conservation Division, the Music Division, and Preservation Reformatting, it was digitized in 2001.
Spalding Sports and Athletic Guides (General Collection) - Approximately 1,400 handbooks, rules, guides and other booklets published between 1884 and 1972 by the sporting goods manufacturer. Subjects include gymnastics, boxing, wrestling, water sports, fencing, skating, cricket, archery, handball, football, racquet sports, hockey, baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, and fitness training. A partial list of the titles may be found by going to http://catalog.loc.gov/ and performing a "guided key word" search on "American Sports Publishing" as a phrase in "publication information." The digital reproduction will consist of digital images and searchable text. The first set of these at-risk volumes was digitized during 2000-2001.
Ansel Adams' Manzanar War Relocation Center Negatives and Photographs (Prints and Photographs Division) - A collection of 241 original negatives and 209 prints of Ansel Adams' photographs of Japanese-Americans interned at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in Inyo County, California. The digital reproductions will consist of digital images. This collection of high-interest, high-risk materials was digitized during 2000. Publically available images from this collection are available in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC).
Online Guide to Microfilm Microform Reading Room, Humanities and Social Science Division) - An electronic access aid for over four hundred unclasssified guides to microfilm collections that have no bibliographic records in the Library of Congress online catalog. This guide will link to the full text of recent and future guides created by the LC Preservation Reformatting Division. It will also link to digital reproductions of selected older guides. The digital reproductions will consist of digital images. Approximately 1500 pages of high-value, at-risk material were digitized during 2001.
Federal Theatre Project Negatives (Music Division) - A collection of approximately 9,000 photographic negatives and 260 color transparencies from the Works Progress Administration Federal Theatre Project. These materials document casts, set designs, and performances of dramatic productions staged during 1935-39. The digital reproduction will consist of digital images. These severely deteriorated materials were rehoused and stabilized in 1999; they were digitized in 2000-2001.
