The Archives & the Digitization Project

THE HAUCK CENTER FOR THE ALBERT B. SABIN ARCHIVES

In 1995, the John Hauck Foundation helped the Cincinnati Medical Heritage Center (now the Winkler Center) establish the Hauck Center for the Albert B. Sabin Archives. A five-year gift provided funds for an archivist to organize and preserve Dr. Sabin's collection. Later, the Hauck Foundation provided the Winkler Center with two additional gifts that helped with the construction of the Winkler Center's new home and the building of the John Hauck Foundation gallery in the new space. The creation of the Hauck Center has enabled the inventory, preservation, and digitization of this incredible piece of medical history for future study and research.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES "WE THE PEOPLE PROJECT"

In 2010, the University of Cincinnati Libraries received a $314,258 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to digitize the correspondence and photographs of Dr. Albert B. Sabin. This digitization project was designated a NEH “We the People” project, an initiative to encourage and strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture through support of projects that explore significant events, and themes, in our nation's history and culture, and that advance knowledge of the principles that define America. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Frederick Hauck, co-founder of the John Hauck Foundation, with Albert Sabin, 1986

ALBERT B. SABIN LABORATORY NOTEBOOK DIGITIZATION PROJECT

In 2017, the Winkler Center once again received a generous gift, from the John Hauck Foundation, Fifth Third Bank, John W. Hauck, Narley L. Haley, Co-Trustees, to digitize portions of Albert B. Sabin’s research and laboratory notebooks. Over 50 notebooks containing approximately 5600 pages were digitized over the course of two years. The notebooks deal not only with polio, but also sand fly fever and toxoplasmosis. These keyword searchable PDFs have all been uploaded to the University of Cincinnati's online repository Scholar@UC. Find them here at the UC online digital repository.

DIGITIZATION PROJECT 2017 CONTRIBUTORS

May Chang: University of Cincinnati Libraries CTO | Birsen Kaya: Director, Library IT & Project Coordinator | Lori Harris: Asst Dean UCL & Director Henry R. Winkler Center | Gino Pasi: Archivist & Curator, Henry R. Winkler Center | Kyle Sliney: Multimedia Designer | Lisa Haitz: Software Apps Developer | Meghana Garlapti: Student Assistant | Vignesh Rathana Kumar: Student Assistant

EARLIER PROJECT ITERATIONS

From University of Cincinnati Libraries:

Doris Haag | Stephen Marine | Stephanie Bricking | Linda Newman

Carrie Hill-Harriss: Website Design | Jeffrey O'Flynn & Mary Kroeger Vuyk: Lead Project Staff | Ryan Washam, Richard Sookoor, Megan Ryan & Kathlyn Pintz: Project Staff

Sydney Halpern: University Of Illinois at Chicago | David Morens: National Institutes of Health | David Oshinsky: University of Texas at Austin | Frank Snowden: Yale University