{"id":4433,"date":"2011-12-08T17:49:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T21:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=4433"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:07:48","slug":"lackawanna-valley-digital-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2011\/12\/08\/lackawanna-valley-digital-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0 initial initial\" src=\"http:\/\/lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/utils\/ajaxhelper\/?CISOROOT=SPL&amp;CISOPTR=6&amp;action=2&amp;DMSCALE=10&amp;DMWIDTH=481&amp;DMHEIGHT=512&amp;DMX=0&amp;DMY=0&amp;DMTEXT=&amp;DMROTATE=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a great new resource available for anyone interested in local history. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/\">The Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives<\/a>, hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lclshome.org\/albright\/\">Scranton Public Library<\/a> and funded by a grant from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willary.org\/\">Willary Foundation<\/a>, contains digitized photographs, manuscripts, maps, paintings, letters, and videos related to the history of the Valley and its surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>While the Digital Archives will continue to grow, there are already three great collections available to the public:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/outwild\"><em>Out of the Wilderness: The Industrialization and Development of the Scranton Area 1850-1865<\/em>,<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/SPL\"><em>The History of the Scranton Public Library<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0and the timely<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/content.lackawannadigitalarchives.org\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/scrchristma\">Scranton Christmas Windows<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;re partial to the <em>Out of the Wilderness<\/em> collection since it contains Civil War era materials <a href=\"http:\/\/thetimes-tribune.com\/lifestyles-people\/u-of-s-students-preserve-civil-war-documents-1.1130953#axzz1fyvFEBsg\">found, described, digitized, and transcribed last spring by University of Scranton history students<\/a> in Dr. Kathryn Shively Meier&#8217;s Civil War class.<\/p>\n<p>The Lackawanna Valley Digital Archives is a collaborative effort involving many of our local cultural heritage institutions, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lclshome.org\/albright\/\">Scranton Public Library<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lackawannahistory.org\/\">Lackawanna Historical Society<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/stea\/index.htm\">Steamtown National Historic Site<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/thetimes-tribune.com\/\">Scranton Times-Tribune<\/a> newspaper library, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthracitemuseum.org\/\">Anthracite Heritage Museum<\/a>, and our own Weinberg Memorial Library. \u00a0In addition to the Willary Foundation, other funding partners include the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lhva.org\/\">Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safdn.org\/\">Scranton Area Foundation<\/a>. 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