Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Bent-Hyde Papers Available in Luna

The C&MS Digital Resources Cataloging Team and the CU-B Archives Department are pleased to announce that our first archival digital collection, the Bent-Hyde Papers, are now available in digital form through the CU Digital Library. The collection consists of hand-drawn maps, photographs, handwritten letters and other textual materials relating to Arapahoe and Cheyenne activities in 19th century Colorado and Kansas, including significant historical events such as the Sand Creek Massacre. In addition, the full archival finding aid for the collection, with links to some images from the collection, is available through the Rocky Mountain Online Archive.

As is always the case with digital collections, providing online access to these materials was a team effort. Digital Resources Cataloging would especially like to thank Josie Fania, who applied her archival experience to cataloging these materials in the new workspace offered by Luna. Thanks are of course due to Holley Long for her work with the Luna interface, and to Bruce Montgomery and Dave Hays in Archives for their assistance with the materials.

Please direct questions about the metadata portion of this digitization project to Michael Dulock.