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This page contains information concerning our efforts to keep our website updated. When something new is added, or modified, itwill be posted so you don't have to search the site for new things. The most recently posted item will always appear on top of the list.
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Local Author's Book focuses on the Roundhouse
Local author and society member Roy Carl Weiler, Sr. has had his first romance novel published by iUniverse. The title of the book is "Secrets of the Museum" and prominently features a photograph of the Roundhouse Museum on its cover. The story focuses on a terminally ill Cynthia Dobbs who refuses to give up. Family lore relates to her grandmother's miraculous cure at Dr. Smith's health spa, so she returns to Egg Harbor City in search of "The Doctor Book" and its secrets. In her search of the museum archives, she meets Kyle Dwyer and a romance blossoms.Autographed copies of the book is available at the museum and local shops. It is also on the shelves of Borders Bookstores and can be found on Amazon.com. Believing in the mission of the EHCHS, he is donating a portion of his royalties from the sale of each book to the upkeep of the Roundhouse Museum.
Added on August 6, 2008
Historical Display at Dr. Smith's Site
The museum is updating an outdoor photographic display with more period photographs taken at the Dr. Smith's Neutral Water Health Resort. The purpose of this display is to provide the casual passersby with some information about the site before them and also to invite them into the museum.The new display is larger (26 x 26)will again be attached to the London Ave. footbridge across Landing Creek. The photos include views of the various buildings on the site, a view before the resort's construction and some of the visitors with Dr. Smith present. The new display will be a fiberglass-backed display on laminated plastic that is not prone to the water damage that destroyed the previous display.
The display design will be prepared by the The Gotham Group, a Winsome Digital Company, and will return about Labor Day
Added on February 7, 2008
Digitization UPDATE!!!
While much of the digitized newspaper information has yet to appear on the Digital Highway, the museum is making a reduced resolution file set available to its visitors. Dates/pages of the various newspapers that have been copied have been entered into an Excel spreadsheet with hyperlinks to 100dpi files for viewing on the museum's computer system. At present, the files are limited to some 90 pages (mostly front pages) of The NEWS from 1917 and 1918 with additional files being processed and added weekly. A few of the issues from 1918 were copied in its entirety. Also included are limited copies of Pilot-Tribune and other local papers from the holdings of the museum.In addition to the newspapers, many of the museums photographic holdings were digitized as 600dpi maximum quality JPEGs. Under continuous construction is a spreadsheet of names of identified people with hyperlinks to the photographs that will help answer the dreaded question; "Do you have a picture of my great-grandparents???"
The museum will, for a nominal small fee, provide hard-copy prints or copies of the digital files on CD if requested.
Added on February 7, 2008
Digitization Grant
The Egg Harbor City Historical Society and the Atlantic County Library was jointly awarded a grant in 2005 to digitize various documents that relate to the "German Experience" in America. These documents include immigration records, early EHC tax records and newspapers. The projected plans to digitize "The NEWS" (1928 through 1935) and some early tax books from 1862 to 1900 were scaled back due to the high cost of producing Metadata files. The newspaper files are to be converted to searchable PDF files and placed on the New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH). An alphabetical index of the 1862 tax book has been prepared and tax book is on the website. There are also old photographs and U.S. Declarations of Intent that have been placed on the NJDH. Many photographic holdings of the museum have also been placed on the NJDH.Added on September 18, 2007
