May News Round-up

How is it already almost June? Rolling stones gather no moss, and MWDL is rolling right along! Here are a few noteworthy items.

Save the Date: MWDL Annual Meeting

The MWDL Annual Hubs and Member meeting will be taking place at J. Willard Marriott Library (University of Utah) Tuesday July 10 and Wednesday July 11. Mark your calendars and we hope to see you in Salt Lake City! July 10 will be the All Hubs Meeting and July 11 will be the Digitization Committee Meeting.  


We are also opening up July 11^th for other members in the community that are interested in learning about digitization best practices, future directions, and local and regional digital repositories, with formal registration (coming soon).

University of Utah reharvest

We're pleased to announce that all collections hosted by University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library have been reharvested by MWDL from their Solphal digital asset management system. This is the first reharvest since Solphal went live in 2017, totaling 504, 296 items as of May 31. Congratulations! 

New collections

We've welcomed many new collections from a variety of members in late spring 2018, including:

Boise State University
Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Oregon Digital
Orem (UT) Public Library
Utah State Archives
Utah State University

DPLA Harvest

DPLA harvests from MWDL on a quarterly basis (February/May/August/November), and we are nearly done with May's harvest. I'll send an update when the most recent harvest is complete. 

Where in the world is MWDL?

Our intrepid Metadata Assistant, Keegan Dohm, is studying abroad this summer in Kyrgyzstan! Keegan was awarded a three-month scholarship to live in the country in support of his Russian language minor. Congrats Keegan, and we'll see you back at the ranch in August!


That's all for now, and we look forward to seeing many of you in July for the annual meeting! Happy almost-summer!

14 New Collections from Oregon Digital!

Oregon Digital is one of our newest members and they are doing a splendid job of sending us new collections to work with. We look forward to the next set. We spotlighted some of our favorites below along with links to the rest of the 14 new collections.

Dissociation and Trauma Archives

The Dissociation and Trauma Archives contains original psychological  studies and cases in English and French. The oldest of these reports was written in 1845 regarding a case of "Double-Consciousness". Many of these studies pertain to cases of multiple personality or identity disorder and they may be acutely interesting to anyone passionate about medical history. 

An excerpt from Hypnotic and Post-Hypnotic Appreciation of Time: Secondary and Multiplex Personalities. It reads, "I commenced to employ hypnotism as a theropeutic agent in 1889, and in less the two years treated over 500--"

 

 

Lesbian Intentional Community: Ruth Mountaingrove (b.1923) Photographs

Ruth Mountaingrove (1923– ) is a photographer, writer and artist who moved to Oregon in 1971, settling in communes and eventually co-founding Rootworks, a lesbian land in Southern Oregon. Rootworks was home to the Ovular workshops, which Ruth and Tee Corinne, another prominent lesbian photographer, and others, led. The workshops, which ran for six years, were an opportunity for women to learn photography in the context of the Women’s Movement, providing a means for the women to examine the differences between the way men pictured women and the way the women saw themselves. The feminist photography magazine, The Blatant Image, sprang from the Ovular workshops. The Ruth Mountaingrove collection consists of correspondence, diaries, ephemera, and photographs.

Photograph from the Ruth Mountaingrove papers, 1950-1999           

C. L. Andrews Photographs,1880s-1948

Clarence L. Andrews (1862-1948) documented and collected documentation on native life, natural resources, and exploration of Alaska and the Yukon. The collection (1805-1948) consists of approximately 1600 prints and 75 negatives by more than 60 photographers, dealing almost exclusively with Alaska and the Yukon. Main subjects include the towns of Sitka, Skagway, Eagle, and Valdez; modes of transportation, from reindeer and dogs to railroads, ships, and kayaks; Native Americans; totems; wildlife and natural resources.

A man identified as R. Amundsen stands in a snowy arctic landscape with three dogs. Roald Amundsen was the discoverer of the South Pole and the first person to fly over the North Pole. He is clothed in fur garments with hooded coat with fringes, pants, gloves and laced boots. Part of a mountain, or glacier is visible in the background.

Dan Powell Photographs,1970s-2000s

This collection contains interpretive and expressive photographs captured by Dan Powell, an Associate Professor and Head of the Photography Program at Oregon State University. The photographs document a diverse range of subjects from an equally sweeping range of locations including Oregon, the Western US, New York City, and many European countries.

Color image of torn photograph of a man's chin and necktie lying on a white background. The bottom of the photograph has a blue band with black handwriting. Below the photo rests a black ceramic vessel containing a thorny twig, atop a crumpled section of black and silver paper.

The Electric Studio/O.G.Allen Photographs, ca. 1911-1913

The Orla G. Allen Photographs focus on rodeo events and people circa 1911-1913 and contain a few fantastic photos illustrating the life of the rodeo at the time.  If this piques your interest you might also look at the Grayson Mathews (1948-2007) Photographs, 1970s-1990s which contains a large collection of rodeo photos from around the 1970s. 

A man identified as Martin Schmitt is lying in the grass in front of an appaloosa horse. He is wearing a cowboy hat, long-sleeved shirt, holster containing bullets and gun, and wooly chaps. A handkerchief is tied around his neck. The horse is fitted with a saddle, bridle and reins. Coiled rope hangs from the saddle. Deciduous trees, flowers, and a wooden fence are visible in the background.

Explore the other Oregon Digital Collections! 

These are mainly composed of portrait photographs documenting indigenous peoples, events, places, and daily life from the mid 19th to late 20th centuries.

Florence M. Hartshorn Photographs
Charles W. Furlong(1874-1967) Photographs

Grayson Mathews (1948-2007) Photographs, 1970s-1990s

James Cloutier Collection

John Bauguess Photographs,1970s

Lee D. Drake (1882-1957) Photographs, ca. 1910-1957

Walter S. Bowman (1865-1938) Photographs, 1880s-1920s

Frazier Augustus Boutelle Photographs, c. 1865-1900

UO Archives Photographs

 

Oregon Digital joins MWDL!

We are pleased to welcome Oregon Digital to Mountain West Digital Library! Oregon is now the sixth state represented alongside Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming in MWDL. 

Oregon Digital is collaboratively managed by the Digital Scholarship Center of the University of Oregon Libraries and by Oregon State University Libraries. Three collections from each institution are now live in MWDL. Read on to learn more about each. 

University of Oregon Libraries

Angelus Studio photographs, 1880s-1940s

The Angelus Studio was a professional photographic company located in Portland, Oregon. The collection includes works by a variety of photographers and provides extraordinary documentation of the city of Portland, the Lewis & Clark Exposition of 1905, Oregon landmarks, and commercial operations including logging and fish packing.

A bird's-eye-view of a busy street scene in Portland, Oregon. 

Doris Ulmann Photographs

Doris Ulmann’s early work includes a series of photograph portraits of prominent intellectuals, artists and writers: William Butler Yeats, John Dewey, Max Eastman, Sinclair Lewis, Lewis Mumford, Joseph Wood Krutch, Martha Graham, Anna Pavlova, Paul Robeson, and Lillian Gish. In 1932 Ulmann began her most important series, assembling documentation of Appalachian folk arts and crafts for Allen Eaton’s 1937 book, Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands.

Weaver, dyer, spinner, dyeing. Photograph from the Doris Ulmann collection.

Lee Moorhouse (1850-1926) photographs 1888-1916

Major Lee Moorhouse of Pendleton, Oregon was an Indian Agent for the Umatilla Indian Reservation and a photographer. From 1888 to 1916 he produced over 9,000 images which document urban, rural, and Native American life in the Columbia Basin, and particularly Umatilla County, Oregon.

Black and white image of a child standing next to a pony that has a blanket on its back.

Oregon State University Libraries

                        

Illustrated Booklets

The Illustrated Booklets were published by Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) during the 1910s and 1920s to promote and publicize the College to potential students and Oregon residents, and to provide vocational guidance to youth and young adults. This digital collection includes 29 booklets.

The cover of Landscape Architecture, published by the Oregon State Agricultural College, June 1929

Ken Gray Insect Image Collection

The Ken Gray Insect Image Collection consists of prints and negatives depicting various types of insects at their larval and adult stages.

In his capacity as a pest specialist with the Pacific Supply Cooperative of Portland, Ken Gray photographed insects as part of a project to create a library of images. Assisted by OSU entomologists in the identification of insects, Gray donated these images to the OSU Extension Service in the mid-1970s. In a project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, the OSU Extension Service generated slides from 4300 of the Gray insect images and marketed them as aids in the certification of pesticide applicators to university entomology departments.

A picture of the spiny larval form of Hyphantria cunea (Fall webworm) on a leaf. 

Oregon State University Yearbooks

The Oregon State University Yearbooks digital collection includes 111 yearbooks published by the students of Oregon State University, beginning with the 1894 Hayseed. This keyword-searchable digital collection is a major resource for study of Oregon State’s campus history and culture in the twentieth century.

A picture of The Beaver yearbook cover from 1960. 

Thank you to the teams at both universities for all the hard work behind the scenes to make this happen! Welcome to MWDL, and we look forward to adding more collections in the near future!