View Deerfield’s past online
Deerfield has recently joined Digital Past, a local history digitization project by libraries, historical societies, museums and other groups working in partnerships with the North Suburban library system in Wheeling. You can now view pictures of Deerfield when Waukegan road was a dirt path, when downtown was surrounded by, well, nothing, and when everyone young and old worked at the National Brick Company. By going to digitalpast.org you can click on the Deerfield Public Library link and view 60 historical photographs. By joining Digital Past, the Deerfield Historical Society and the Deerfield Public Library both feel it is a way to preserve heritage in the community. Most of these pictures were taken before we can even imagine, no film was used because most of them were on a glass plate long before there were negatives (which makes it all the more interesting). Others see this as an interactive approach to history. Future plans for this neat project include videos, film clips, oral histories, listings from old telephone books and cemetery records. With those included, it should make any history buff’s day.
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