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From
Laura Smith, Curator for the Railroad History Archive:
New Search System for "Steam and Electric Locomotives of the New Haven Railroad" Digital Collection!
Presenting online, in a faster and better search system known as CONTENTdm, the Fred Otto Makowsky photographs in this digital collection, at
http://railroads.uconn.edu/locomotives/. Some new features are a page where the photo is shown with the description, and each term
within the record can be clicked on for other images of the same kind. Let me extend my thanks to Digital Integration Librarian Linda Jackson, of the UConn Libraries IT staff, for her diligent attention to this project.
Many of you might have visited Connecticut History Online, a database of images from the Dodd Research Center, Mystic Seaport Museum,
and the Connecticut Historical Society, since its introduction in 2002. We are pleased to announce the NEW Connecticut History Online, with many more
materials, including maps, historical documents, artifacts (such as costumes), newspapers and magazines, and sound recordings and transcripts. The
database also includes materials from two new partner institutions -- the Connecticut State Archives and the New Haven Museum and Historical Society.
As always, the database holds hundreds of photographs of railroad stations in Connecticut.
As always, if you're a new user I strongly recommend you contact me before your visit so that we can meet and talk about your research, to make
your visit as productive as possible. For more information about our hours please visit http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/about/visitorinfo/hours/index.html.
Last update: January 11, 2008
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