About Preserving the History of United States Agriculture and Rural Life: State and Local Literature, Arizona, 1820-1945

• Jim Martin, Associate Librarian, The University of Arizona Libraries
• Phone: (520) 621-6378
• Email: Jim Martin martinj@u.library.arizona.edu

This digital collection of books, pamphlets, serials representing Arizona agricultural history and rural life from the period 1820 and 1945 was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Administered by Cornell University, the grant provided funding for land grant universities in the United States to digitize rare and fragile items this period. Scholars and Librarians at the University of Arizona identified the materials that were digitized. The collection includes approximately 900 items.

We would like to thank Cornell University Mann Library, especially:

• Joy Paulson, Principal investigator of the grant, Preservation Librarian, Cornell University Mann Library.
• Frances Webb, Programmer, Cornell University Mann Library.

We would like to thank the following individuals for lending us related materials:

• Roger Myers, University of Arizona Special Collections
• Susan Irwin and Linda A. Whitaker, Arizona Historical Foundation
• Katherine Reeve and Jill McCleary, Arizona Historical Society
• Rob Spindler and Brad Vogus, Arizona State University Libraries
• Leslie Pardo, Arizona State University Law Library
• Janet Fisher, Susan L. Blixt, and Ellen Greene, Arizona State Library
• Maria Hernandez, Phoenix Public Library
• Marly Helm, Arizona State Museum
• Jacquelyn Kasper, University of Arizona Law Library
• Anna Uremovich, City of Mesa Library

• Scanning Resolution: 600 ppi/B&W (text), 400 ppi/8-bit/grayscale (grayscale images/charts), 400ppi/24-bit/RGB (color images)
• Scanning Scale: 100%
• Delivery File Format: PDF 1.5 compatible (compressed)
• Preservation File Format: TIFF 6.0
• Quality Control: 100% of images have been performed quality control to ensure file readability, file quality and file naming.

July 2006- July 2008

• Jim Martin, Principle investigator, Associate Librarian
• Yan Han, Co-Principle Investigator, Associate Librarian
• Doug Jones, Project Adviser, Full Librarian
• Xing Qu, Graduate Assistant Software Developer
• Eugene Liptak, Project Coordinator
• Charlotte Cushman, Project Coordinator
• Nick Jury, Digital Library Manager
• Patrick Barabe, Application System Analyst, Senior
• Many students who provided quality control for digitized images