April 02, 2007
Special Collections or Library Displays in Web 2.0
Shorpy.com is a 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors into today's spotlight. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century. They started with a collection of photographs taken in the early 1900s by Lewis Wickes Hine as part of a decade-long field survey for the National Child Labor Committee.
Shorpy.com is a fine example our how library, museum, and private collections can be made available to the world using web 2.0 tools and techniques.
[VIA: MAKE: Blog, Mar 21, 2007]
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