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<\/a>The University of Iowa\u2019s Special Collections was fortunate to receive Chef Louis Szathmary\u2019s library of cookbooks throughout the mid-80\u2019s. \u00a0Among the items were a number of handwritten cookbooks that Szathmary had collected over the years. In the Spring of 2012 conservation and digital preservation students began scanning the manuscripts. The first item, Josiah Ingall\u2019s account book, went digital on March 13th<\/sup>, 2012. The goal was to crowd source the transcription of the pages and create legible, accessible, versions of the cookbooks, some of them dating from as far back as the 1600\u2019s.<\/p>\nA little over a year later, the project reached the 100 mark with the digitization of the \u2018Household recipe book of Mrs. Howard of Staines, Middlesex and Salsfield Court, Nr. Westerham, England\u2019. \u00a0This number represents hours of work in addition to 12,674 images totaling 249,361,919,444 bytes!\u00a0 Each item is assessed before scanning, treated if necessary, scanned, processed, and rehoused in a 4-fold-flap. \u00a0The DIY transcription project is also moving along at a good pace with 33,222 pages transcribed to date.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re interested in browsing the digital collection go to: http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cookbooks <\/a><\/p>\n Or, if you\u2019d prefer to try your hand (or eyes) at manuscript transcription, visit the DIY transcription site at: http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n Lastly, if you\u2019re feeling super adventurous, try out some of the recipes yourself, also found at the DIY site. There\u2019s everything from dandelion wine to cures for the plague (which hopefully you don\u2019t have).<\/p>\n -Jessica Rogers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday, May 7, 2013 The University of Iowa\u2019s Special Collections was fortunate to receive Chef Louis Szathmary\u2019s library of cookbooks throughout the mid-80\u2019s. \u00a0Among the items were a number of handwritten cookbooks that Szathmary had collected over the years. In the Spring of 2012 conservation and digital preservation students began scanning the manuscripts. The firstContinue reading “The Szathmary Digitzation Project”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}