| Street & Smith Project
Digitizing 4,409 volumes of dime novels and
story papers published by Street & Smith, a New York City firm in operation
from 1855 to 1959. A partnership among five academic libraries—Northern Illinois University, Villanova University, Stanford
University, Bowling Green State University, and Oberlin College—the project
would provide images and full texts of the works, catalog records for the
volumes, and indexed entries for every story, series, and author, to augment an
existing online bibliography of dime novels.
The Street & Smith Project
seeks to digitize the dime novels and story papers of the only major publisher
to survive the dime novel era. In addition to making thousands of these
publications freely and widely available for the first time anywhere in over a
century, the project will also add index entries for every story, series, and
author to the online dime novel bibliography at dimenovels.org. This bibliography
will be used to aggregate each partner’s digital dime novel holdings, while
unpacking the complex relationships that exist between the dime novels
themselves.
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Project fields:
American Literature; U.S. History
Program:
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Division:
Preservation and Access
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Totals:
$348,630 (approved)
$348,630 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2020 – 6/30/2022
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