| PRINTS MADE POSSIBLE BY HOLLIS DONATION
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HOLLIS GIFT
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The Special Collections unit of the Lakeland Public Library recently completed a project in cooperation with the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) to preserve more than 200 photographs documenting the history and development of Lakeland from the 1920’s to the 1950’s. The project was made possible as a result of a generous gift from Jack, Clayton, and Dean Hollis, sons of Mark and Lynn Hollis, in honor of their parents’ 50th wedding anniversary.
The commitment of the Hollis brothers to preserving the city’s history and their desire to honor their parents has manifested itself in the creation by NEDCC of 214 photographic prints and duplicate negatives of images of Lakeland that were previously unavailable to researchers. They were produced from aging and brittle original negatives, some as much as 80 years old. They were simply too fragile to be made accessible to the public. Now, thanks to the generosity of the Hollis family and the technical skill of the NEDCC staff, these important images documenting Lakeland’s history will be available to generations of researchers to come.
This small online exhibit displays 31 of the more than 200 photographs preserved as result of the generosity of the Hollis family.
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