As part of an initiative to preserve the visual history of Singerly Fire Company, I have been working with the department’s museum and archive committee to digitize the Bob Norman Collection. This sizable resource, containing over a half-century of fire service images, was added to the institutional repository by the company’s official fire photographer. Fire…
Category: Preservation Methods
Attended Workshop on the Future of Local History Collections in the Digital Age
This week I attended a Richard Stockton College workshop on the future of local history in the digital age. The valuable session included an excellent roundtable discussion where humanities scholars, historians, and librarians talked about the profound implications as technology changes the way we access the resources in museums and special collections libraries.
Meeting With the President of American Heritage to Discuss New Digital Age Products
Last week I meet with the president and editor-in-chief of American Heritage Magazine, Edwin S. Grosvenor. This venerable old publication was created by the American Association for State and Local History in 1949 and its long time editor was the award winning historian, Bruce Catton. When it was launched it sought to apply the methods…
Preserving Old Glass Plate Negatives & More
I recently came across a large group of glass plate and unusually sized old film negatives in the attic of a commercial building. Since this media contained images that we wanted to see for this investigation I purchased an Epson Perfection V750 Pro to scan the materials. I’ve been working on the project for over…