Digital Worcester

Digital Worcester

YOUR CITY. YOUR PAST. MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Digital Worcester (DW) emerged out of a partnership between Worcester Historical Museum and the Humanities and Arts Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The project now includes Worcester Public Library as a collaborator in bringing rare historical materials to a broader audience through digitization and web-accessibility.

DW’s mission is two-fold: (1) to use digital technologies to make internet-accessible historical materials that illuminate Worcester’s rich past and (2) to develop compelling crowdsourcing applications to engage both local and national audiences in interpreting and analyzing big historical data relating to Worcester’s urban industrial growth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. DW brings together both material scanned from the collections of Worcester Historical Museum and from large, online purveyors of digital content, like Google Books, Internet Archive, and Hathi Trust. With the contents of each volume fully searchable by keyword, DW makes it easier for you to discover your story.

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Visit Us

Address
30 Elm Street
Worcester, MA 01609
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Contact Us
e: info@worcesterhistory.net
p: (508) 753-8278

Museum Hours

Gallery Hours
Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-4PM
Every fourth Thursday until 8:30PM

Library Hours
(By appointment only) Wednesday-Saturday
10AM-4PM library@worcesterhistory.net

Salisbury Mansion
Thursday-Saturday, 1-4PM

Closed: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day, Patriot’s Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day

SPONSOR

This website was made possible by a generous gift from The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation, Inc.

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