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Re: Newspaper Archives



Ken,
You might try contacting someone in the photo archives at the HRHRC (Harry
Ransom Humanities Research Center) at the University of Texas in Austin.
You should be able to find the HRHRC website through the general UT
Libraries site (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu). Good luck!
Sammie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fieth, Ken (Metro Archivist) [SMTP:ken_fieth@METRO.NASHVILLE.ORG]
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 3:50 PM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Newspaper Archives
>
> Gentlefolk,
>
> Hello, I am Ken Fieth,  Metropolitan Archivist for Nashville and Davidson
> County, Tennessee.  We are a division of the Nashville Public Library. The
> Library has recently acquired the entire archive of the Nashville Banner
> newspaper. The Banner was in operation from 1875 to 1998. There are 1,073
> five-drawer file cabinets of records in three series, Clippings,
> Photographs
> and Negatives.  The Archives has the bound papers from 1875-1952.
>
> The Archives has been given charge of the negatives. They span 1936-1998
> and
> consist of approximately 546,000 images. They are indexed by date from
> 1955
> to 1995.
>
> Here are my questions for your consideration:
>
> 1.  Anyone out there have a similar Newspaper collection?
>
> 2.  We have a long range goal to produce a contact print of every image.
> At
> present, we are pursuing a grant to contact print the   first 15,000. All
> the negatives will be placed in archival quality sleeves/boxes and stored
> in
> our temperature/humidity        controlled vault. Any comments or
> suggestions on this goal?
>
> 3.  We plan to digitize selected images (perhaps 500) for inclusion on the
> Nashville Library web site. Any thoughts on this?
>
> 4.  Would your print fees be graduated between private and commercial use?
>
> 5.  Any thoughts on how to preserve hundreds of thousands of clippings
> aside
> from microfilming or photocopying on acid-free  paper?
>
> Your thoughts and comments are most welcome and appreciated,
>
> C. Kenneth Fieth, C.A.
> Metropolitan Archivist for
> Nashville & Davidson County
>
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