The following excerpt is from an article by Jennifer Davidson, posted in the June 21, 2012 edition of the ksmu.org website.
It was known as “The Great War” because of its massive scale. Now, nearly 100 years later, a massive array of historical documents from World War I has yet to be preserved. As KSMU’s Jennifer Davidson reports, the Springfield-Greene County Library district is part of a new effort to document Missouri’s World War I history in a completely digital format.
The project is called “Over There: Missouri and the Great War.” The library district has joined hands with the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis and the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirskville to take documents, pictures, and artifacts from the war and propel them into the 21st century.
The result, they hope, will be a digital archive showing how Missouri soldiers, factories, and farmers impacted World War I…
