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West Virginia Historical Photographs |
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| Description: | The West Virginia and Regional History Collection contains the most comprehensive collection of historic photographs pertaining to West Virginia in existence. Estimated to include more than 150,000 images, these photographs are interspersed throughout the West Virginia Collection’s broad holdings. A gathering of approximately 25,000 photos, including many of the finest, are housed collectively in the Collection’s WVC Historical Photographs Collection. The West Virginia Collection is currently in the process of creating a digital version of this tremendous pictorial resource which documents the history of countless subjects and places in West Virginia. As of 2005, more than 7,000 images are available via West Virginia History OnView. In addition to offering convenient on-site and remote access to these photographs, the image records offer extensive catalog and subject data which makes this resources highly searchable and user friendly. The creators of the photos are diverse and in many cases unknown. The date range is roughly 1850 to the present. The digital resource has been in production by the staff of the WVC since fall 2004. The resource is fully searchable by catalog metadata, character string, and with Boolean capability. |
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| Content: | The digital resource consists of approximately 7000 tiff images scanned at 600 dpi at present (December 2005). It is anticipated that this number will grow eventually to approximately 25,000. These display to the public as low resolution jpegs. |
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| Access: | URL: http://images.lib.wvu.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=wvcp |
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