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The Park Tudor School Legacy Initiative, founded in 2001, connects talented high school students with families and war veterans across the United States in order to preserve documents and oral histories. The Initiative collects copies of unpublished wartime accounts, letters, diaries and photographs; conducts oral history interviews for the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project, and publishes volumes in its anthology series: Words of War: Wartime Memories. Since 2002, more than 480 oral-history interviews with veterans and civilians and corresponding transcripts have been completed.

The Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives was created to collect, conserve, preserve, and promote the use of records that document the architecture, engineering, and arts associated with the built environment of Columbus, Indiana and Bartholomew County.  The archives’ collection includes materials on both Historical and Modernist projects, including many of the 60 plus designs by world famous architects of the last half century that are located in Bartholomew County. 

The digital collection presented here showcases the planning and execution of 5 Bartholomew County building projects: Columbus Regional Hospital, Central Middle School, Mill Race Park, BCSC Administration Building, and Columbus Learning Center.  The story of how these projects progressed from initial sketches through construction is told in these digitized sketches, photographs, blueprints and various planning and construction documents.

The Indiana Historical Bureau evolved from the Indiana Historical Commission, which was established in 1915. This organization offers publications and programs relevant to the history of Indiana and provides ample opportunities to educate the public about Indiana's relations with the rest of the nation and the world. The Indiana Supreme Court has collaborated with the Indiana Historical Bureau on the Road to Indiana Statehood project. Together, with University Library, these organizations have worked to make original materials relating to Indiana's constitutional history available online.

The Indiana Medical History Museum is located in the "Old Pathology Building", found on the grounds of the former Central State Hospital in Indianapolis. This is a registered historic place, where a collection of scientific artifacts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are presented in a completely authentic setting. The museum represents the beginning of scientific psychiatry and modern medicine in Indiana. University Library collaborated with this cultural institution to make Dr. William Niles Wishard's Scrapbook available in digital format.

The Indiana Historical Bureau evolved from the Indiana Historical Commission, which was established in 1915. This organization offers publications and programs relevant to the history of Indiana and provides ample opportunities to educate the public about Indiana's relations with the rest of the nation and the world. The Indiana Supreme Court has collaborated with the Indiana Historical Bureau on the Road to Indiana Statehood project. Together, with University Library, these organizations have worked to make original materials relating to Indiana's constitutional history available online.

Greenfield is the birthplace and boyhood home of the famed "Hoosier Poet," James Whitcomb Riley. Before his death in 1916, Riley wrote over 1000 poems during his extraordinary literary career, including "Little Orphant Annie" and "When the Frost is on the Pumpkin."

The Riley Home, where James Whitcomb spent his boyhood years, was built in 1850 by his father, Reuben, and is located at 250 West Main Street. The City of Greenfield purchased this home in 1936 and the Riley Old Home Society was established.

Today, The Riley Home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is open to visitors (April - November).

Located in Fishers, Indiana, Conner Prairie is one of the premier Interactive History Parks in the nation. Long an acknowledges leader in the living history field, Conner Prairie specializes in providing unique, engaging educational experiences that fuel the curiosity and imagination of its guests. Conner Prairie is the only Indiana institution to be named a Smithsonian Affiliate site. IUPUI University Library and Conner Prairie are collaborating on three projects highlighting the craft traditions preserved at Conner Prairie.

Crispus Attucks was Indianapolis' first segregated high school built for African-Americans in 1927. It was named after Crispus Attucks, a black man who was the first American to die in the Boston Massacre in 1770, a precursor to the American Revolutionary War. In 1986, the school converted from a high school to junior high school. This digital collection captures the history of the high school through its yearbooks (1928-1986), newspapers, and graduation programs.

Since 1830, the Indiana Historical Society has been Indiana's Storyteller ™, connecting people to the past by collecting, preserving, interpreting and disseminating the state's history. A private, nonprofit membership organization, IHS maintains the nation's premier research library and archives on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest. IHS also provides support and assistance to local museums and historical groups, publishes books and periodicals; sponsors teacher workshops; and provides youth, adult and family programming.

The Indiana State Library, which serves as the meeting grounds for the statewide digital library project in Indiana, has within its vast holdings strong collections of materials relating to both Indiana history and culture. Its vision involves providing access to information and services for Indiana's government, libraries, and residents. Through the Library Fund of the Indianapolis Foundation, a grant has provided IUPUI University Library the ability to collaborate with the Indiana State Library and the Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library to digitize a collection of historically significant materials that currently have been taken out of circulation.