Preserving Memories: Digitizing the Family Histories of Franklin, North Carolina (2014)

Undergraduate: Olivia Dorsey

Faculty Advisor: Timothy McMillan
Department: Information Science

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I traveled to Franklin, NC during the summer of 2013 in order to visit with individuals who were willing to talk to me about their time in their hometown of Franklin and share with me their old family photographs. This included employees at the Macon County Historical Society, librarians at the Macon County Public Library, and various members of the community. Through these meetings, I was able to learn about several aspects of the town¿s African American history and I was able to scan at least 500 photographs, which ranged from the 1820s to the 1980s. For my project, I created an online digital collection that would focus on preserving the older and more damaged photos from the 1860s to the 1940s and that would also highlight the content from the interviews that I held. Today, the digital collection can be found on FranklinMemories.com.