Before and After the Fire: Chicago in the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s ·http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/collections/maps/chifire/
Do you ever wonder what Chicago looked like before the Great Fire of 1871? The University of Chicago's Map Library has digitized an entire slew of wonderful maps that document Chicago's urban landscape before and after that traumatic conflagration. The growth of the city during that time was great indeed, transforming the small city from a population of 109,000 to more than one million by the 1880s. Expansion rapidly took hold as the Union Stockyards opened, George Pullman crafted his model city and railroad sleeping car plant, and the South Works steel mill came alive. All told, the collection here contains over a dozen richly detailed maps, including a guide map of Chicago from 1868, a plan for Lincoln Park from the 1880s, and a map of the Union Stockyards from 1887. [KMG]
Dallas Voice
·http://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/DALVO/
The Dallas Voice Newspaper has been published continuously since 1984, serving as one of the main vehicles for thoughtful coverage of events and ongoing issues affecting the LGBT community in the region. This digital collection brings together all of the issues from 2000 to present day in one easy-to-use archive. Visitors can perform a detailed search across all of the issues here, or just browse around at their leisure. It's a great resource for cultural historians, journalists, and others seeking to better understand the city of Dallas and its environs. One particularly nice feature here is the Search Help feature, which allows visitors to learn how to best utilize the resource. Additionally, users can sign up to receive notifications every time new issues are posted via RSS or email. [KMG]
Iron Range Research Center Archival Collections ·http://ironrange.cdmhost.com/
For many people, Minnesota's Iron Range isn't just a geographic region, it is a way of life. Stretching across the northeastern section of the state, the Iron Range includes everything from vast bands of iron ore to counties with piquant names, like Koochiching. It is a largely rural area, where people's winter pastimes tend to involve skiing, snowmobiles, and ice fishing. This digital collection from the Minnesota Discovery Center preserves the culture and folkways of this area via photographs, oral histories, government records, and manuscripts. Within the Oral History Collection, visitors can look over memories of this region captured and preserved for all time. Visitors can explore labor struggles, internecine political battles in the region, and recreational pursuits. Additionally, the Map Collection is a great way to learn about forest distribution, geological landforms, and iron deposits across the area. All in all, it is a wonderful resource and one that may serve as a model to other institutions. [KMG]
Canadian Pacific Railway Collection ·http://www.vpl.ca/cpr/index.html
The Canadian Pacific Railway collection provides access to over 1500 images documenting the company's activities all around British Columbia from the 1880s to the 1950s. The pictures portray railway stations both urban and rural, along with images of workers, buildings, hotels, ships, and yards that were part of the railroad's vast empire. Visitors can click on the Collection area to get started and the search function is another good way to focus in on items of interest. Within the History tab is an elegant and well-developed essay on the company, complete with illustrative images while the Photographers section provides great insight into who exactly took these pictures. And, of course, casual users may just wish to click on the Gallery to get a sampling of the works that make up this archive. [KMG]
Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein ·http://www.artbma.org/interact/pachyderm/contemporary_printmaking/index.html
The Baltimore Museum of Art has used the Pachyderm multimedia authoring tool to develop this interactive online presentation based on a popular exhibition. There are four sections, two historical: The Apocalypses of Dürer and Redon, and The Prints of Hogarth and Raftery: A Comparison. The other two sections invite users to explore 20th and 21st century printmaking, using the works of artists such as Ed Ruscha, Daniel Heyman, Roy Lichtenstein, and Sherrie Levine, who work in series and editions, and confront current issues. In Meltdown, Sherrie Levine's series, the artist used historical paintings as inspiration, scanning the works and using computer software to reduce each one to 12 colors. She then printed the colors as 12-square grids using one of the oldest printing techniques, the woodcut. The final section highlights Printmaking Techniques, from stencils and woodcuts to lithography. [DS]
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