Oliver Otis Howard, Class of 1850
A mammoth digitization project designed to enable public access to the papers of one of Bowdoin’s most distinguished alumni is now complete.
In 2014, the College received a $150,000 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission’s “Digitizing Historical Records” program to support a three-year project to digitize the Oliver Otis Howard Papers.
The project also received funding from the Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust and the College.
With the help of twenty-six student workers, more than sixty linear feet of archival materials—some 80,000 letters, photographs and diaries—were scanned and published online.
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