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| Yale's Colonial North American Project |
It seemed like every day last
week I was learning about new collections that are now available for us to
devour. These five really caught my
eye/ear and so I wanted to share!
1. A Digital Portrait of Colonial Life – Harvard's Colonial North American Project website includes 150,000 images of diaries, journals, notebooks, and
other rare documents from the 17th and 18th centuries.
2. A postal ‘piggybank’ from the 17th century sheds light on the culture of that
time -- The project, titled “Signed, Sealed, and
Undelivered,” is an international public-private partnership between researchers
from five leading universities — Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and the Universities of Leiden, Groningen, and Oxford — and the Museum voor
Communicatie in The Hague. The project centers on an archive of undelivered
letters — many of them unopened — sent from across Europe to The Hague
3. French Revolution Digital
Archives -- The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA)
is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque
nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key
research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the
international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main
resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of
images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la
Revolution française.
4. 10,000 wax cylinders digitized and free to
download -- The University of California at Santa Barbara
5. Photogrammar (via Yale) -- web-based platform for
organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to
1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of
War Information (FSA-OWI).
Have you recently heard about a neat
collection that your fellow family historians might find interesting?
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