Microfilm Magic: Revealing Hagerstown's Past Through Historic Newspapers

The project manager and the scanning specialist from the vendor, Back Stage Library Works, will give a talk on the various processes that took place throughout this project, followed by training for any interested audience member on the use of the library’s microfilm readers, and a sample of what can be discovered in The Globe newspapers on microfilm. Some examples of subjects to be shown on microfilm include suffrage; immigrants; transportation history; early tourism; segregation (particularly involving the railroad); Ku Klux Klan activities; crime reports that help localize and humanize broader issues such as racial disparity in the justice system; and memoirs of local Civil War veterans that help tell the story of the “unfinished business of the Civil War.”