Category Archives: digital collections

Campaign Button Digital Collection!

Posted on October 6, 2020 by moorekv

YouTube and Facebook ads. Texting supporters to remind them of their polling location. Presidential campaigns have changed significantly over the years, but catchy slogans and memorable logos have always been part of campaigning.  A selection of campaign buttons makes up … Continue reading →

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Update on the William D. Workman Jr. Papers Photographs

Posted on November 2, 2018 by dhazel

We Need Your Help! As we finish up with some of the last tasks on the digital collection for William D. Workman, Jr.’s photographs, we need your help to fill in some of the details in the collection with as … Continue reading →

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September update on the William D. Workman Jr. Papers Photographs

Posted on September 18, 2018 by dhazel

Workman is Online! We are excited to announce that we have uploaded the first four batches of images from Workman’s collection. Our grad assistant, Chauna Carr, has been given the green light to start uploading to our new server space. … Continue reading →

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July/August update on the William D. Workman Jr. Papers Photographs

Posted on August 10, 2018 by dhazel

Good news! We have completed scanning all the images in the Workman Photograph collection, some 2,335 prints and negatives, give or take a few duplicates. We are eager to start uploading content so that the public may begin exploring all … Continue reading →

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Update on the Second Phase of the William D. Workman Jr. Papers Photographs

Posted on May 31, 2018 by dhazel

We are currently in the midst of checking and editing metadata for the previously scanned images and negatives mentioned in the last update. By early April, we had digitized well over 1,600 additional images in varying formats and had begun … Continue reading →

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Reprocessing and Digitizing the William D. Workman, Jr. Papers Photographs: Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2017 by litwer

  The first three months of our NHPRC-funded grant project, Reprocessing and Digitizing the William D. Workman, Jr. Papers Photographs, have been highly productive. As a result of Mae’s diligent and efficient work, the project is more than a month … Continue reading →

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A Towering Legacy: Remembering Bryan Dorn

Posted on March 17, 2017 by moorekv

William Jennings Bryan Dorn has been on my mind lately.  In truth, I think of Mr. Dorn often.  I got to know him well, late in his life.  He made a big impression. Bryan Dorn was born for politics.  He … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia and the Case of the McNair Imposter

Posted on January 30, 2017 by moorekv

For many of us, Wikipedia is the first stop when researching any topic or person that we’re unacquainted with.  I forgot who was Lieutenant Governor in 1957?  Check Wikipedia.  There’s a government agency I know nothing about?  Check Wikipedia.  Naturally … Continue reading →

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Modjeska Monteith Simkins Papers Now Online!

Posted on September 28, 2016 by moorekv

We are pleased to announce the digitization and online accessibility of the Modjeska Simkins papers!  After several years of work, the staff of the Digital Collections department recently completed the extensive and rather costly project for SCPC. Civil Rights activist … Continue reading →

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Outreach at SCPC

Posted on September 23, 2016 by moorekv

Congressional repositories like SCPC serve a broad audience ranging from younger students, perhaps working on a History Day project, to senior scholars researching their next book. Years ago, to help excite people about the potential of our collections, we began … Continue reading →

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