For more information please contact: Daniel Alonzo | (512) 974-7386
December 2, 2009

Austin History Center's Jones Glass Plate Negative Collection is Online

The Jones Glass Plate Negative Collection of 466 fragile glass plate negatives from about 1870 to 1900 have been digitized and are now available online at www.austinlibrary.com/jones/jonesglass.cfm.

The Austin History Center, 810 Guadalupe St., also has a small photo exhibit of the best images from the Jones Collection on display in the David Earl Holt Meeting Room through Sunday, March 21.

This unique resource of Texas history includes a variety of scenes from life in early Austin.  The Collection also shows portraits of many early Austinites, many whose identities have been lost in time.

This digitization project was funded by a TexTreasures grant made possible by a grant from U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act.

The Jones Collection is the first of the many photograph collections preserved by the Austin History Center that will be digitized and made available online through the Austin Public Library's website.

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