{"id":7062,"date":"2013-02-21T16:18:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2013-02-21T16:18:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:18:24","slug":"meet-the-hubs-digital-library-of-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/2013\/02\/21\/meet-the-hubs-digital-library-of-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Hubs!: Digital Library of Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s one thing I’ve learned while exploring the collections of the DPLA’s Hubs over the past few weeks, it’s that archival photographs of lush green gardens and sandy beaches prove surprisingly helpful in confronting the chilly midwinter conditions here in Boston. After another snowy weekend, I was glad to spend time this week searching through the collections of the Digital Library of Georgia<\/a> (DLG). The DLG serves as part of the University of Georgia\u2019s GALILEO initiative. The DLG\u2019s services extend beyond the access it provides to the documents in its portals, and includes metadata aggregation, text encoding, scanning and digital imaging services, and the preservation of the library\u2019s massive Georgia Newspaper Project.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s in the DLG? What kind of unusual historic documents can you find by clicking through the site\u2019s collections? The DLG provides ample educationally significant material — the DLG\u2019s connections to the Civil Rights Digital Library and Civil War Library\u00a0 make finding some of the DLG\u2019s most historically significant documents easy enough. But despite the draw of these resources, I found another collection that grabbed my attention: the Historic Postcard Collection.<\/p>\n

The Historic Postcard Collection<\/a> is part of the Georgia Archives, and contains over 1,600 images of postcards spanning the decades from 1900 to the 1970s with images of some of the state\u2019s most notable landmarks (like the first Girl Scout headquarters<\/a> in the US!).\u00a0The postcards themselves are beautiful; some contain hand drawn interpretations of Georgia\u2019s universities, while others include reprinted historic photographs of historic downtown Atlanta or Savannah.<\/p>\n

I did spend quite a while looking through the DLG\u2019s extensive collection of documents in the Civil Rights Digital Library portal. The CRDL centralizes documents from archival institutions throughout the US in order to provide a comprehensive look at the history of the civil rights movement in Georgia and beyond. While the collections range from news clips to editorial cartoons, I found a series of interviews called \u201cGreensboro Voices\u201d especially interesting. The interviews, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, include discussions of growing up in segregated Greensboro<\/a> and first-hand accounts of the process of organizing sit-ins<\/a> in the 60s.<\/p>\n

Another favorite collection found through the DLG is the Historical Maps Database<\/a> from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia. The maps within the database go as far back as the mid-sixteenth century. I\u2019m especially fond of a 1584 map, the Peruuiae Aviferae Regionis Typus <\/em><\/a>created by Abraham Ortelius, which depicts Florida and parts of the southeast coast, central America, and northwester South America.<\/p>\n

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Peruuiae Aviferae Regionis Typus, 1584, Abraham Ortelius, Courtesy of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Cover image\u00a0Georgia, drawn by S. Lewis ; D. Fairman sc.<\/a>, 1804, Courtesy of the\u00a0Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library<\/em><\/p>\n

Read more about the Digital Hubs Pilot Project and the service hubs\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newest post in a series introducing the DPLA’s service hubs looks at the Georgia Digital Library, and explores some of the hidden treasures — from historic postcards to oral histories — found in its collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5325,"featured_media":7064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[923],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/files\/2013\/02\/DPLADLG.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7081,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions\/7081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dplaalpha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}