Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Timeline and Digital Collections

We wanted to have some online content to go along with the exhibit - both access to the scans of the documents used as well as an overall timeline of WWI.

Scans available here.

The timeline is here


Mood Hall then - in my last post I have a photo from almost this angle. 

Below is one of my favorites (cropped):

On a sidenote, today was pretty much "Fun with DOS" day when I was trying to rename some files. Some of the early scans from the the grant digitization project had been named before we set up a naming scheme and I went back to make sure everything matched. I could have gone line by line and copy-pasted but it seemed a little slow - I ended up using the PowerShell method from here. I haven't used shell commands in a while and it was nice to get some practice in and save myself some time. 

Friday, December 5, 2014

Pictures of the Exhibit

Much belated!

These are from October 3rd. 


The following are from setting it up on October 2nd:







And these are from September 26th. The first two are from when I tried to recreate the angle of some of the photographs we used, but there are too many trees now to do an easy comparison.

The picture above is the angle that had the courthouse in the background in 1918.

Mood Hall was used as the barracks for the SATC.





Details of documents and photos available here: Southwestern Special Collections: Digital Collections