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2006 Midwest Regional Conference I 19 Lincoln, Nebraska - July 2006 Seeing Old Photographs Through New Eyes Hawthorne John E. Carter, Nebraska State Historical Society Photographs have long been an important tool in the evidentiary toolbox of those who study history and culture. One could easily predict the effect that digital technology and the Internet would have on access to pho- tographic resources. What was not so apparent was the role high -end digitization could play in mining these photographs for information that was otherwise inaccessible, and, in fact, invisible. We will explore the dis- coveries made using the state -of- the -art digital imaging laboratory at the Nebraska State Historical Society's Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center to reset the horizons for the uses of photographs in knowing and understand- ing the past. ®7:00 p.m. Friday July 7 Reception Reception at the Museum of Nebraska History In 1907, Clarence Paine, t the newl selected secre- f tary of the Nebraska State `° e Historical Society, invited six other historical societies in ` the Midwest to send repre- sentatives to Lincoln for the •' f P, purpose of organizing a new historical association to facili- tate collaboration, improve ^. ..' . professional standards, and highlight our regional his- tory. On October 17 -18, 1907, representatives of the seven historical societies met in Lincoln, adopted a constitution, and created the Mississippi Valley Histori- cal Association, the antecedent of today's OAH. They also chose Clarence Paine as their Secretary- Treasurer, and he held that important position until his untimely death at age 49 in 1916, whereupon his widow, Clara Paine, librarian at the Nebraska State Historical Society, succeeded him until her retirement in 1952. In 1914, the MVHA launched The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, the precursor of The Journal ofAmerican History, the current name adopted in 1964. Come join us for a reception in the birth- place of the OAH, sponsored by the Nebraska State Historical Society.