Project Support and Acknowledgements
When IBM gave the digital imaging system to the Museum, we began a great partnership which allowed us to provide greater access to the National Woman's Party collection to people throughout the world.
We owe them a great debt for recognizing the significance of our collection, for sharing their vision of the project, for providing us with the equipment as well as for supporting us and helping us to sustain this project.
We would specifically like to thank Stanley S. Litow, Corporate Community Relations, IBM for the contribution and Neil Callaghan and Sally Scott Marietta of IBM for their continuous support of the project. Special thanks also go to Frank Giordano, and Karen Magerlein of IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab for the technical design and support of the lab equipment and imaging software, and Austin Schilling of Information Management, IBM Software Group for support of the imaging lab server software, data model design, and web site applications. We would also like to thank the IBM Pacific Development Center in Vancouver for its invaluable web programming and development support.
We owe special thanks to Lana Lawrence, the Project Manger, for her tireless commitment and reminding us every day of the opportunities the digital imaging project presents for sharing the untold, and unfinished, stories of women's pursuit for equality.
Thanks to our Collection Manager, Jennifer Spencer, and her intimate knowledge of our collection, the preview contains several of our most unique images that give a glimpse of the political strategies and tactics of one of most successful early women's political organization in our country.
The March 2006 preview of the digital collection was possible thanks to the many interns who volunteered their time and talents. We would like to extend special thanks to Barbara Bates, Matthew Longchamps, Tiffany Ruhl, Kathleen Walker and Mary Ann Wilson.
Thanks to the MARPAT Foundation for their generous support in 2006 to help preserve and share the Allender cartoons.
Special thanks to Janice Ruth, Barbara Bair, Meg Alessi Mason, Phil Michel and Domenico Sergi of the Library of Congress for meeting with the Sewall Belmont House & Museum Staff during the earlier phases of the project. We also deeply appreciate their sharing of information about Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party, the American Memory web site that showcases the National Woman's Party holdings at the Library of Congress.
The Sewall-Belmont House and Museum Digital Advisory Council
In July, 2005 we developed a Digital Advisory Council to assist with strategic planning and oversight of the digital preservation project. Thank you to the members of the council who continue to generously provide their expertise to the digital imaging project:
Allida Black, Ph.D.
Director and Editor, The Eleanor Roosevelt Paper
The George Washington University
Katrin Eismann, M.F.A.
Digital Imaging Educator, Artist and Author
Frank Giordano
Senior Engineer, IBM Visual Technologies Department
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Cathy Hawks
Research Associate, Museum Studies Program
The George Washington University
Gayle Hazelwood
Superintendent
National Capital Parks East
Tiffany Heath
Secretary, Board of Directors
National Woman's Party
Jayne Holt
Independent Paper Conservator
Ann Lewis
Political Advisor and Activist
Sally Scott Marietta
Corporate Community Relations Manager
IBM Corporation
Edith P. Mayo
Curator Emeritus
Smithsonian Institute
Debby McGinn
Vice President
National Woman's Party Board of Directors
Phil Michel
Digital Conversion Specialist
Library of Congress
Robyn Muncy, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Maryland, College Park
Janice Ruth
Editor and Acquisitions Archivist in Women's History
Library of Congress
Austin Schilling
Senior Consultant, Information Management
IBM Software Group