In Depth

Jul 10, 2023

IN DEPTH — Lessons Learned in Preserving a Commercial Photography Studio

Over the past few years, the Missouri Historical Society’s Photos and Prints Department has undertaken a large-scale project to fully...

Feb 20, 2023

IN DEPTH — Summing Up Summary Notes

While a picture is worth a thousand words, it is rarely feasible, or welcome, to use quite so many to describe a picture or group of...

Feb 17, 2023

IN DEPTH — Archiving Valentines

In May 2021, I started processing the Nancy and Henry Rosin collection of valentine, friendship, and devotional ephemera. Assembled by...

Nov 1, 2022

IN DEPTH — Going to Bat for a Fan Favorite Collection

Among the many treasures at the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, you can find over 2,000 baseball cards in the Benjamin...

Dec 20, 2021

IN DEPTH — Archiving Arcana

A Remote Internship Experience with MIT Libraries’ Indie Tarot Collection. In the spring of 2020, just as I was beginning my dual degree...

Aug 29, 2021

IN DEPTH — If History Calls Create Your Own Collection

Black Lives Matter Protest and March; Pan Pacific Park; April 25, 2021. The Bradley Center was established in 1981 in the Department of...

Jul 6, 2021

IN DEPTH — Work From Home - Accessibility: Create Alternative Text Image Descriptions

Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In March and April of 2020, the library system at The...

Jun 9, 2020

IN DEPTH — The Story Behind the Photo

A group of men and women pose with yo-yos on the steps of City Hall in Raleigh, NC around 1930. Among them? Pedro Flores, the Filipino...

Jun 9, 2020

IN DEPTH — Where Was That Taken?: Using Google to Geolocate Photographs

While photographs are not our main medium at The Center for American War Letters Archives, we do receive tons, mostly from the First and...

Nov 12, 2019

IN DEPTH — Polaroids from Heaven: Developing Active Learning with Unconventional Visual Resources

A photograph of the Blessed Virgin Mary appearing on a rose petal, a Polaroid of unexplained religious symbols in the clouds, and an...