Ohio's Bicentennial Scrapbook will ensure at least one thing: We won't forget the past. By this fall, the Buckeye State's pictorial history will be posted on the Internet.

        “You can actually see an 1812 map of Ohio and an invitation to President Grant's inaugural,” said Fred Stratmann, spokesman for the Ohio Bicentennial Commission. “We'll take it all digitally. It's similar to the (Library of Congress') American Memory Project.”

        The scrapbook is Ohio's major Internet project for the bicentennial, to be celebrated in 2003. When ready, it will be found at ohiomemory@ohiohistory.org.

        The Ohio Historical Society says the project will provide access to the history and resources of Ohio.

        Images coming from southern Ohio:

        • A program from 1894 detailing Cincinnati's sports writers and baseball players, including a deaf man named William Denny Hay, who was responsible for inspiring hand signals;

        • A Cincinnati Reds scorebook from 1894;

        • Ohio River steamboat records;

        • Histories of Catholic churches and the Archdiocese of Cincinnati;

        • Photos of early flight from Wright State University;

        • Objects from Cincinnati medical history;

        • Letters from a field nurse in the Civil War.

        From 1995 to 2000, the society raised money with the help of several other groups. Last year, the Library Information Network approved a $500,000 grant to fund the Internet posting.

        Historical information will range from 1803 to 1903, but organizers plan to extend that to the current year.

        The Ohio Memory Project gathers materials from libraries, historical societies, museums and archives. The hope is to provide comprehensive coverage of state history and be a legacy to Ohio's bicentennial, said Maggie Sanese, spokeswoman for the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus.

        “Our hope is that the scrapbook will be accessible long after the bicentennial,” she said. “It has made a huge difference already. Before, it was so labor-intensive to find what we had in the stacks (of materials) here. Now, we've got much of it organized” for the Internet site.

        A similar Web site, the Greater Cincinnati Memory Project, is already operating at http://memory.gclc-lib.org/, although it was offline when this story was published. Miami University's library system is one of seven area libraries and museums participating in a pilot program. Miami's libraries have contributed more than 400 photographs from the collection of Frank Snyder.

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