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apologies for duplicate postings. Also please direct questions to=20
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MEETING OF FRONTIERS ADDS COLLECTIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES, RUSSIA, AND=20
GERMANY
The Meeting of Frontiers web site of the Library of Congress has=20
added collections from the Library of Congress, the State and University=20
Library (SUB) of Lower Saxony, G=F6ttingen, Germany, the National Library of=
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Russia (NLR), and the Russian State Library (RSL). This is the sixth=20
upgrade and expansion of the site since its launch in December 1999.
Meeting of Frontiers is a bilingual, multimedia English-Russian=20
digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and=20
settlement of the West and the parallel exploration and settlement of=20
Siberia and the Russian Far East. With the latest additions, the site now=20
includes over 330,000 digital images that are available for use in schools=
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and libraries and by the general public. Meeting of Frontiers is the=20
world=92s largest bilingual collaborative library site.
Library of Congress collections added include the Kiowa Stories=20
from the papers of Hugh Lenox Scott (Manuscript Division) and the Eleanor=20
L. Pray Album (Prints and Photographs Division). Scott was a West Point=20
graduate and career military officer who served at various western posts=20
between 1876 and 1897. In 1892, he was assigned to Fort Sill, Oklahoma,=20
and given command of Troop L of the 7th Cavalry, an all-Indian unit=20
comprised of Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache. During his years in the West,=20
Scott developed an increasing interest in the region=92s indigenous=20
populations and became an astute practitioner of Plains Indian sign=20
language =96 non-verbal method of communicating with hand gestures =96 that=
he=20
used to gather information about Native American cultures. The selections=20
from the Scott papers included in Meeting of Frontiers consist of Kiowa=20
stories that he collected while stationed at Fort Sill.
The Eleanor L. Pray Album features images from Vladivostok in=20
1899-1901 and the life of an American merchant family living in the city at=
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that time. It was created by Eleanor Roxanna Lord Pray (1868-1954), an=20
American woman who lived in Vladivostok for thirty-six years (1894-1930).=20
The album eventually was inherited by Mrs. Pray=92s granddaughter, Patricia=
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D. Silver, who in 2002 donated it to the Library of Congress for scholarly=
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use and digitization on the Meeting of Frontiers web site. The album offers=
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a unique and private perspective on Russian and expatriate life at a=20
crucial time in late-tsarist Russia. Among the expatriates pictured in the=
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album is Richard T. Greener, the U.S. commercial agent in the city at that=
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time who was also the first African-American graduate of Harvard College.
The latest Meeting of Frontiers update also includes, from the=20
State and University Library of G=F6ttingen, a large portion of this=20
institution=92s world-famous Asch Collection. The creation of Georg Thomas=
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von Asch (1729-1807), a German who studied medicine at G=F6ttingen and then=
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entered the Russian National Service, the collection is a comprehensive=20
record of Russian expeditions to Siberia in the second half of the=20
eighteenthcentury. It includes books, manuscripts, and maps, as well as=20
medals, minerals, plants, clothes, and other items of scientific interest=20
that Asch gathered while serving as an official of the Russian government.=
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Asch donated the collection to G=F6ttingen, where it became the core of the=
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library=92s extensive Russian collections. The digitization of 246 rare=
books=20
for Meeting of Frontiers was funded by a grant to the SUB by the German=20
Society for Research.
Project partners since 1999, the Russian State Library and the=20
National Library of Russia contributed rare books, maps, and manuscripts to=
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their already extensive collections of digitized materials on the Meeting=20
of Frontiers site. The additions include unpublished memoirs of Russian=20
exiles in Siberia, Russian documentation about the Russo-Japanese War of=20
1904-1905, and the 1837 translation into Aleut of the Russian catechism by=
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Ioann Veniaminov (St. Innocent).
Meeting of Frontiers is funded by the U.S. Congress. Significant=20
in-kind contributions to the project have been made by the Open Society=20
Institute-Russia, Yukos Oil and the Foundation for Internet Education, and=
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the SUB. Project partners include the Library of Congress, the Russian=20
State Library, the National Library of Russia, the SUB, the Rasmuson=20
Library of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the Institute of the North=20
at Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, and several dozen regional=20
libraries, archives, and historical societies in Siberia and the Russian=20
Far East.
Meeting of Frontiers is part of the Library=92s Global Gateway=20
initiative to create digital partnerships between the Library of Congress=20
and leading libraries around the world. Meeting of Frontiers can be seen=20
at <http://frontiers.loc.gov>. Please direct questions to <mof@loc.gov>
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