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From a News Release: George Eastman House the world’s oldest photography museum founded in 1947 on the estate of Kodak founder George Eastman, and Clickworker, an innovator in the global crowdsourcing and workforce solutions space, announce the kick-off of a large-scale, iconic crowdsourcing project. The project involves the photo-tagging and cataloging of more than 400,000 […]
Picture This: A New Blog From the Print and Photographs Division at the Library of Congress Debuts
|From the Debut Post on the Picture This Blog: The Picture This blog invites you to share our love of pictures and the stories they can tell. You’ll see special images that caught our eye and also learn about entire collections as we explore the vast holdings of the Prints and Photographs Division at the […]
From a LOC Announcement: A collaboration to facilitate the archiving and publication of a new documentary photography project was announced today by the Library of Congress and the photography group known as Facing Change: Documenting America. Facing Change was founded in 2009 by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographers Anthony Suau and Lucian Perkins and is a contemporary […]
New Jersey Dept. of Agriculture Launches Database of More Than 2000 Vintage Photographs
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Reports, Resources
|From NJ.com: An online data – and image bank describing more than 7,000 vintage photographs produced by the Department of Agriculture to document farming in New Jersey from the late 19th century through the 1970s has been created. Of these, more than 2,000 photos have been scanned and are now publicly viewable in the image […]
Digitization: "Online Archive Preserves Images from Christian Missions in Africa, Asia"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
|From a the Text of a VOA Report: An ambitious Internet project is bringing to light forgotten images from Africa, Asia, and other parts of the world during the period when missionaries were active. The International Mission Photography Archive contains more than 60,000 historic photographs that show cultural interaction – through missionaries – with the […]
Terrific material with more to come. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Central Regional Library maintains a collection of over 400,000 photographs taken during geologic studies of the United States and its territories from 1868 to the present. These images provide a visual history of the discovery, development, and sciences of the United States and its […]