The digital projects team wanted to maximize usage of the collection by focusing on topical areas: the Great Depression, World War II and aftermath (e.g., GI Bill), the Vietnam War and student activism, and African Americans and women on campus. We expected the majority of items in the collection to be photographs, but wanted to include other types of primary sources (artifacts, newspaper articles, and oral histories) to present a multifaceted portrait of the University’s history. The selection process for this collection has in fact been rather unusual because we initiated it without knowing what we would find, adjusting our expectations as new materials have been revealed.
to present a multifaceted portrait of the University’s history