It’s a collection that’s been at Baylor University since the middle of last century, with items spanning back to the 1700s. There are more than 28,000 items in that collection including a first edition of The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Jingle Bells. And as of this week, it’s reached a milestone: more than…
Category: Collection spotlight
Political Maneuvering: Updates and Changes to the Digital Collections, Fall 2015
We’re taking the opportunity of this week’s blog post to highlight some changes to one of our partner institutions and – as it directly relates to us – their digital collections. Announcing the Baylor Collections of Political Materials Digital Collections! Our friends at the W.R. Poage Legislative Library recently announced a return to their longstanding…
Thrown Down, Fired Up and Glazed Over: Introducing the Harding Black Collection
How do we honor an innovator? Do we associate their name with their creation forever, like Eli Whitney and the cotton gin? Do we raise a statue in their honor? Do we put their name on a piece of currency? Around here, we make a digital collection out of their work, like we did with…
The Spencer Collection Marches On With 400+ New Titles!
Unlike some of our never-ending projects (ahem, Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, ahem), there are some projects that we’re making slow, steady progress on every day. And that’s why we’re announcing a new batch of items in the Frances G. Spencer Collection of American Popular Sheet Music – 461 all told! The items span a…
When The Day’s Work Is Done: The George W. Truett Sermons Project, Complete
If you’re a loyal reader of this blog, you’ll no doubt remember that we’ve been talking about the George W. Truett Sermons project for quite some time. From their original arrival in late 2012 to an exploration of the story behind their original recording and broadcast via a Mexican “border blaster” radio station, we’ve…