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Sunday, 29th November 2009

New: Collection of Digitized Civil War Photographs Released by Army Heritage and Education Center

Note: To access the collection described below, go to: http://www.ahco.army.mil and click on the "MOLLUS- Massachusetts Photograph Collection" link.

From the Article:

Earlier this month, the Army Heritage and Education Center unveiled a digitized collection of some [our emphasis] 23,000 vintage photographs from the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States from the Massachusetts Commandery.

This collection is considered by historians the single best Civil War photograph collection in the world, said Molly Bompane, AHEC’s photo curator. “Not only have we preserved this collection for future generations, we have made it much more accessible to many researchers and enthusiasts around the globe.”

Jack Giblin is director of visitor and education services at AHEC. He said the MOLLUS collection is significant because of its complexity and completeness.

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Ken Burns and his staff spent six weeks in Carlisle going through the MOLLUS collection to pull illustrations for his popular PBS series on the Civil War, Sommers said. “When the Military History Institute acquired this collection in December 1973, it was the most important discovery of Civil War photographs in the 20th century.”

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The digitization process began in early 2007 and continued until recently, Bompane said. It took one contracted worker eight months to scan in the thousands of images into a format where online users can zoom on details.

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Note: To access the collection, go to: http://www.ahco.army.mil and click on the "MOLLUS- Massachusetts Photograph Collection" link.

Source: The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA)


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