Hidden Collections Registry - Dev

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• Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project

  The History Department, the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH), and University Archives & Special Collections at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) propose to collaborate with the Genoa U.S. Indian School Foundation and National Archives branches in Kansas City and Denver to digitize, describe, and make accessible materials related to the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School, one of the largest U.S. Indian boarding schools, which was in operation from 1884 to 1934. We will process approximately 10500 pages (or 3368 items) of student case files, admittance forms, correspondence, censuses, administrative and health reports, photographs, artwork, ephemera, artifacts, and a student newspaper held by the National Archives and by the Genoa U.S. Indian School Foundation. Our project will make these hidden records accessible to the families of Indian people who attended the school, researchers who study the Indian boarding schools, and the general public.

• University of Nebraska State Museum Biodiversity Heritage Literature Digitization: Field Expedition Notebooks, Taxon Notebooks, and Other Scholarly Parasitology Literature

  The two-year project would result in the digitization of specific portions of the biodiversity heritage literature that currently exist in hard copy only in the University of Nebraska State Museum (UNSM), a Smithsonian-affiliated institution. The digitized field notebooks, taxon notebooks, U.S. government documents, and University of Nebraska Studies from the Zoological Laboratory series will be openly available for free with no registration required in the highly-ranked University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Digital Commons institutional repository (IR). Faculty, staff, and students within the UNL University Libraries will conduct the work of digitizing and uploading the documents, and creating the associated metadata. The resulting collection of accessible literature will enable greater cross-linking with existing specimen datasets. The literature will be available to scholars, students, and the lay public to read and re-use for free in perpetuity, and will facilitate enhanced cross-linking of databases.

• Major Railroad Archival Collection

  Major railroad archival collections at the Nebraska State Historical Society and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to be cataloged are as follows. Union Pacific Railroad: This collection relates to all aspects of the Union Pacific Railroad Company and its business activities, including corporate, legal, and public relations activities; engineering; railroad construction; and locomotive design. Chicago Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q) Railroad--Lines West collection: This collections includes specific field books, maps, drawings, and other materials from 1869-1950s relating to land development in Nebraska. The Charles Kennedy Railroad Collection: The Kennedy Collection is a large collection that includes railroad annual reports from railroads across the United States, and state railroad commissions (1826-1980). The Val Kuska Collection: Val Kuska was a colonizing agent and an agricultural development agent for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company. This collection documents the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company's efforts to attract settlers and improve agricultural practices in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Oklahoma, and Texas. It also relates to rail traffic in the 1900s. Among these important historical materials are several thousand photographs, advertising posters, scrapbooks, and time tables.