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Article: Grants allow preservation of artifacts for Digital Past.(Neighbor)(Lake County Discovery Museum)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2003
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Byline: Katherine Hamilton-Smith
Over the past year the Lake County Discovery Museum has received grants that have allowed the museum to digitize historic images and make them available on the Web. Currently, nearly 12,000 of the Museum's historic images are available at www.DigitalPast.org or on the museum's Web site at www.lakecountydiscoverymuseum.org.
The first grant, Educate and Automate Digital Imaging of Illinois History and Cultural Heritage, from the Illinois State Library, provided the opportunity to digitize all the postcards of Lake County locations in the Museum's Lake County History Archives. Many of these views are real photo postcards and ...