New digital resources from Asotin County Heritage

August 20, 2012

Asotin County Library has recently added over 100 newly digitized photographs to the Asotin County Heritage collection with the assistance of a grant from the State Library's Washington Rural Heritage initiative! [caption id="attachment_8332" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Oliver Brodock poses with his cat outside his service garage in the Silcott area of Asotin County, Washington, 1940."]

[/caption] Asotin County Library director Jennifer Ashby and cataloger/metadata specialist Marjean Riggers partnered with local resident Eva Lynn Thomson this year to digitize a portion of Thomson's family collection, documenting the history of the Wilson Banner Ranch and the Silcott area along the Snake River just west of Clarkston, Washington. In 2010, the Asotin County Library and the Asotin County Museum joined over 65 cultural institutions throughout the state that have digitized material with grants from the Washington Rural Heritage initiative. Grant funds are available to public and tribal libraries serving populations under 25,000, funded through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. [caption id="attachment_8333" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Packing crew at White Brothers & Crum Orchards, 1910."]

Packing crew at White Brothers & Crum Orchards, 1910.

[/caption] If you have comments or additional information about any of the items in the Asotin County Heritage collection -- or would like to contribute your own material for digitization -- please contact the Asotin County Library. And keep an eye out for a number of new Washington Rural Heritage projects to be published in the coming weeks! Find out more (or subscribe to this blog) right here.

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