Residents can have Civil War era documents professionally preserved

For the Cumberland Times-News
The Cumberland Times-News
Sat Jun 18, 2011, 11:06 PM EDT

CUMBERLAND — Area residents who have original Civil War manuscripts and photographs will have the chance to preserve them with the help of the Western Maryland Regional Library.

A Civil War in Your Attic event will be held Aug. 6 and 8 at the Allegany College of Maryland Library from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. To make an appointment, call Jill Craig at 301-739-3250, Ext. 142 or email jcraig@washcolibrary.org. A limited number of walk-ins will be accommodated, as scheduling allows.

The Maryland History and Culture Collaborative and the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage have partnered in a state-wide effort to locate, scan and provide online access to these documents. The Civil War in Your Attic: Preserving the Legacy of Maryland will provide an opportunity to have historic letters, diaries and other collections scanned. The project will scan manuscript materials and photographs created during the period 1859 to 1867 that reflect the social, political, military, business and religious life in Maryland during the period of the Civil War and the early period of Reconstruction.

Scanned materials will be made available on the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage website, www.mdch.org/civilwar. If requested, the owners will be provided a copy of their materials on disk. They may also choose to be acknowledged online or to remain anonymous.

Western Maryland Regional Library is an organization that provides support and materials for the continued enhancement of resources available through the Allegany County Library System, the Ruth Enlow Library of Garrett County and the Washington County Free Library System.

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