Digital Collections

Overview

The library has digitized many of the rare and unique materials found in its Special Collections and in the College Archives:

The Digital Collections

The Civil War Collection

Collection page: Civil War Collection

The Civil War collections include materials related to the people and history of Oneida county in which Hamilton College is located. Most of the items relate to the 117th New York Infantry Regiment, which mustered out of Oneida County in 1862 during the American Civil War. The collection includes hundreds of letters, official regimental documents, reunion programs, and reunion ribbons.

The Shaker Collection

Collection page: The Shaker Collection

The Hamilton College Library holds one of the best collections of Shaker books and periodicals.

The following collections can be browsed and searched on this Web site:

• Photographs
  
• Postcards
  
• Stereographs
  
• Cartes de Visites
  
• Product Labels
  
• The Shaker Manifesto 1871-1899 (Official monthly journal of the American Shakers)
  (349 issues, 8,136 pages) - (OPAC record).

Hamilton College Archives

Collection page: Hamilton College Archives

These materials are all housed in the Hamilton College Archives located in Burke Library.

The following collections can be browsed and searched on this Web site:

• Samuel Kirkland Correspondence
  
• Baron F. W. von Steuben Collection
  
• Judson-Dean Family Papers
  
• Alumni Register
  
• Old Hamilton College Catalogs
  
• and others
  

Project Documentation

Documentation

The documentation includes pages about ...

• Metadata
• Digitization
• Text Markup
• Submitting Objects
• Management
• Systems
• Preservation
• History
• Credits
• Helpful Resources

Staff

Project Administrators

• Randall Ericson - Project Manager
  E-mail: rericson@hamilton.edu
  Telephone: (315) 859-4489
• Peter MacDonald - Technical Lead
  

Staff Participants

• April Caprak - Processing Assistant
  
• Katherine Collett - Archivist
  
• Ken Herold - Systems Manager
  
• Rebecca S. Seifert - Metadata Cataloger
  
• Jean F. Williams - Metadata Consultant
  

Student Participants

• Hamilton College Students: Laurie B. Northrup '03, Herman L. Chapman '04, Niels Lesniewski ('07), Kaitlyn Babula '07, Ryan C. Reynolds '07, Alysha Banerji '11
• Summer Assistants: Stephany Paris (2005), Ian Wesley Gapp (2006), Nicola Collett (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), Peter Bailey (2009)

(Reviewed: July 10, 2009, pm)