Today I visited the Capital Area District Library for the first time with Rachel and Nikki from class. We worked with David Votta in the Forest Parke Library and Archives working to find images of houses that had been demolished to construct I-496 and their residential cards when available. David is going to email Nikki the digitized formats in the next few days and we should have about 20 or so documents to incorporate into the exhibit.
Once we finished looking for these images, David directed us upstairs to a newspaper clippings file on I-496. From that we were able to make copies of articles discussing a variety of aspects of the construction from the amount of money spent on the project, to opening dates, the process of naming the highway, some information on the relocation going on and many more images to go along with the demolished houses found in the archives. Overall it seemed very productive. Since I went with members of the design team it was interesting to hear from them directly what kinds of things they were looking for and still needed and I feel we found a lot of information and documents that were still needed to keep the exhibit design moving forward.
Overall a great trip!
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