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Grant awarded to the SUNY ESF Archives & Special Collections to digitize historical Roosevelt Wild Life Station researcher photographs

by Jane Verostek on 2021-04-07T12:19:00-04:00 | 0 Comments

Jane Verostek, Associate Librarian at Moon Library and overseer of the SUNY ESF Archives & Special Collections has been awarded a $5,000 Central New York Library Resources Council Access and Digitization grant for 2021. This award will be used to digitize and create metadata for 1,000 of the 6,500+ photographs that the SUNY ESF Archives & Special Collections houses from the RWLS Roosevelt Wild Life Station https://libguides.esf.edu/Roosevelt  The historic photographs were taken by RWLS researchers and a selection of them were published with their research activities and findings in the Roosevelt Wild Life Station Bulletins (1921 to 1950) and the Roosevelt Wild Life Station Annals (1936-1936). The photographs and corresponding handwritten notes from the RWLS researchers being digitized are exceptional primary resources that recorded many aspects of New York including natural landscapes, wildlife, structures/buildings/bridges and research activities from 1919 to the 1950's. As they are digitized the collection will be available online at the SUNY ESF New York Heritage Collections website/repository which also houses other prominent digitized collections from the SUNY ESF Archives & Special Collections https://nyheritage.org/contributors/suny-college-environmental-science-and-forestry-moon-library


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