Community Partnership
During 2009 the Digital Initiatives team received a $1000 grant
from the MTSU Public Service Committee to assist several community
associations with digital projects. Selected organizations were invited
to propose projects; the first application received was from the Arts
Center of Cannon County (ACCC). They had been given a collection of
nearly 1000 photographs that were taken between 1944 and 1977 by
William L. Clements, District Conservationist for the Soil
Conservation Service (SCS). He served Cannon County, a small
agricultural community just east of Murfreesboro and MTSU. The
photos documented the farming methods that were disseminated by
the SCS in that period. Significantly, each photo had descriptive
information typed onto the image back, which made the task of
describing each image quite easy.