Two historical electronic books from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center are now freely available to anyone online at http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/nurfc.
The two titles in this collection are: “Letters on American Slavery” (1833), by John Rankin and “A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States” (1817), by Jesse Torrey.
The remaining images that were missing from the Art Collection following a hard disk failure on September 30 have been restored.
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Updated: October 31, 2005 - 1:15 p.m. - The remaining images that were missing from the The Art Collection following a hard disk failure on September 30 have been restored. This resolves the issue reported below.
The ART Collection, which is part of the OhioLINK Digital Media Center, is missing images following a disk failure on September 30. OhioLINK staff are working to restore the missing content as quickly as possible.
Please notify us if you have any problems using other Digital Media Center Collections. You can also contact your library with questions.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Updated 4:45 p.m. - The missing images from the Social Sciences Digital Media Collection have been restored. This message has been updated to reflect this.