LAWRENCE — Many of the photos of a Kansas photographer who documented the early life of Junction City are now on-line through Kansas University. Joseph Pennell’s life work is now freely available on the University of Kansas Libraries’ digital image repository. About one-fifth — or 6,000 – glass-plate negatives have been been digitized and placed on-line access Spencer Library curator Sherry Williams said the photos are a valuable record of a midwest city that grew and underwent rapid change. Pennell’s work covered a wide variety of people and places, and Junction City’s social life and customs. Library staff spent more than 200 hours photographing the original glass plates, updating catalog records and saving the images on-line last year, Williams said. The on-line collection is available to the public now at www.lib.ku.edu/digitalcommons.
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 11 a.m.
