This photograph shows Dublin in about 1940 with the original Lincoln Highway 50 merging with the new Lincoln Highway 50. It is an example of the kind of photograph that will be scanned and digitized as part of new project that the Library and the Dublin Heritage Center are currently engaged in.
The California Local History Digital Resources Project (LJDRP) offers grants to libraries to digitize photographs like this one of Dublin. The grant provides funds for scanning and digitizing the photographs, as well as $5,000 in project costs.
More than 40 public, academic, and special libraries have participated in the LHDRP. These historic items are now viewable over the Internet through the research Web portals Calisphere and the Online Archive of California.
We are excited that our grant application was successful! Over the next year, Elizabeth Isles, Director of the Heritage Center, and I will be working to create online access to the core collection of photographs at the Museum.
You can help! We need to show how this project will benefit the Dublin community. Did you know that the Museum has historical photographs of the community available for use? Would electronic access to these photographs be helpful to you? How would you use the photographs? For school, work related research, personal research, genealogy? Drop us a line and let us know what you think!
Dublin Library 
Saturday, August 11, 2007 at 7:57 am
Great project. Looking forward to more Lincoln Highway pictures.
Saturday, August 11, 2007 at 4:46 pm
If you are interested in the Lincoln Highway, the Library has a new book on order by Michael Wallis — The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast Along Route 30 From Times Square to the Golden Gate. It was just ordered in July, so it hasn’t come in yet, but you can put a hold on it.
Monday, October 22, 2007 at 10:03 pm
[…] Toward the bottom of the Dublin, CA’s Library blog is a picture of the Lincoln Highway and US 50 – “This photograph shows Dublin in about 1940 with the original Lincoln Highway 50 merging with the new Lincoln Highway 50. It is an example of the kind of photograph that will be scanned and digitized as part of new project that the Library and the Dublin Heritage Center are currently engaged in.” The photos will be available on the web through the Calisphere website operated by the University of California. Read more about at the website: https://dublinlibrary.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/dublin-history-digital-photographs/ […]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 6:50 am
Can you suggest a web site where I might find old or historical sites of Dublin and surrounding areas, particularly Skerries.
Best regards
Tony
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 10:36 am
Tony,
I think you must be referring to Dublin, Ireland as I am not aware of any area in Dublin California that is known as Skerries. For Dublin California you can now access historical photographs at the California Digital Library site called Calisphere. The url is http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu. I’ll be posting more on this soon on the blog.