February 03, 2012
A New Future for the Past: The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
With the publication of its first hardcopy edition in 1987, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History opened a new era in the presentation of urban history. When it moved to the World Wide Web in 1998, it pioneered the concept of an on-line, vetted, urban history resource. Today the on-line ECH stands as one of the university’s most visible digital humanities projects. However, in the midst of the growing number of on-line wikis, blogs, and social networks, it is changing again to remain competitive as a popular, attractive, scholarly historical source. Editor John J. Grabowski will discuss the past, present, and future of the ECH at this Baker-Nord digital humanities program. The ECH is also archived on Digital Case.
Date: 02-09-2012
Time: 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Location: Clark Hall, Room 206 - 11130 Bellflower Road
Registration: Free and open to the public, registration recommended
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January 26, 2012
New faculty papers collection
A new collection has been loaded of Dr. Rolfe Petschek collected papers, from 1970-2010. This collection contains various publication authored or co-authored by Dr. Petschek. New publications will be added on an annual basis.
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October 27, 2011
New collection --- World War 1 Photographs
There is a new collection in Digital Case of fifty WWI-era photographs taken between 1914 - 1918. These photographs include: action scenes, battleships, victims, airships, and personalities such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and politicians.
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October 05, 2011
Cleveland Medical Theses
A new collection of medical theses are now available on Digital Case here. Twenty theses from the first volume (1844) are now live and searchable, and we will continue to add theses on a regular basis. These theses were completed for the School of Medicine of Western Reserve University. This collection was scanned from the collection of the Dittrick Medical History Center. For more information on the material or collection, please contact the museum at 216-368-3648
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August 15, 2011
Great Lake expo film reels highlighted in Plain Dealer
Recently, the Plain Dealer used some clips from film reels from the Digital Case's collection of the 1936/1937 Great Lakes Exposition. Here are the links:
Great Lakes Expo: An Introduction with John Vacha
Great Lakes Expo: Historical video
Great Lakes Expo: The Streets of the World
Be sure to check out the collection in Digital Case for more information as well as photographs, postcards and other printed material. Here is the link.
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May 13, 2011
University Archives Commencement Collection
University Archives Commencement Collection includes audio recordings, images, invitations, programs, and speeches, concerning concerts, convocations, receptions, and other events held to confer degrees, honorary degrees, awards, and prizes and to celebrate the accomplishments of graduating students.
Materials will be added to this collection as they are digitized, so be sure to check back often!
Click here to access collection in Digital Case.
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Manuscripts Relating to the Early History of the Western Reserve, 1795-1869
Manuscripts Relating to the Early History of the Western Reserve, 1795-1869, was the first collection of manuscripts to be assembled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, and its provenance is closely intertwined with the circumstances of the institution's founding. Chiefly responsible for the acquisition of the materials comprising the collection was Charles W. Whittlesey, the Society's first president. According to the Society's second annual report (1869), Whittlesey assembled the collection from a variety of different sources and by several means: he purchased the papers of the Connecticut Land Company under the authority of the Cuyahoga County commissioners, solicited accounts and original manuscripts from early settlers and their descendents, and added documents that he and some earlier enthusiasts had gathered as their own personal collections. Prominent among these latter additions were the materials collected by John Barr and Leonard Case for an earlier, failed historical society.
Click here to connect to the collection in Digital Case.
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