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Subject:        Universitiy of Louisville digital map project "before and after"
Date:   Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:04:17 -0500
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"Before and after" comparison Google maps of Kentucky now available
online.  News release from University of Louisville library pasted below.
Chris Turner, Jeffersonville, Ind.


Dec. 11,
2007
Janene Zaccone, 502-852-6171


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**_University Libraries' map collection_**

**_lets users compare present to past_**



LOUISVILLE, Ky. -A new online feature at the University of Louisville
Libraries' makes it easy for Louisvillians to see what their
neighborhoods looked like 100 years ago and compare them to present day.

Kentucky Maps, which features atlases from 1876, 1884 and 1913, is one
of two collections recently added to University Libraries' digital
collections.

The maps show intercity and commuter rail lines, waterway crossings and
private and public properties. Use of the Google Maps tool allows users
to access the historic maps through a current map, providing dramatic
visual testimony to the changes over time. The Libraries plans to add
other maps from its holdings in the future.

Past residents of and scenes from Pewee Valley are the predominant
subjects in the Kate Matthews Collection of photographs. The collection
celebrates Matthews, who was a pioneering woman photographer from Pewee
Valley. Matthews' works were published nationally, but she relied almost
exclusively on her own community and acquaintances as subjects. Her
photographs represent her interests in costume studies, literary
allegory and scenes of everyday life in the early 20^th century.

Matthews is best known for photographs that depict characters in the
"Little Colonel" series of children's books written by her friend and
neighbor, Annie Fellows Johnston. The launch of this digital collection
coincides with a three-month celebration of  Johnston by the Oldham
County Historical Society, Pewee Valley Historical Society, Samuel
Culbertson Mansion Bed and Breakfast, Western Kentucky University and
the University of Louisville. Matthews' photographs and Johnston's books
will be on exhibit in the special collections galleries on the lower
level of Ekstrom Library through Feb. 16, 2008.

These two new collections bring the total number of digital collections
to six as University of Louisville Libraries continues to highlight its
unique and rare materials through free online access. All collections
are accessible at http://digital.library.louisville.edu/.

For more information, call Rachel Howard at 502-852-4476 or e-mail
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