Canada: "Vancouver Launches Online Photo Archive"
The City of Vancouver has completed an online photo archive project, a collection of panoramic cityscapes from the early to mid 1900s.Nearly 400 images by photographer W.J. Moore have been digitized and uploaded to the Vancouver Archives website.
W. J. Moore worked as a commercial photographer from 1911 to 1953. He specialized in panoramic photography of Vancouver, and covered a wide variety of subjects including street scenes, events, buildings, construction, recreational activities, harbours and docks.
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Vancouver Archives began its digitization program
in 1997 and has scanned an estimated 68,000 images from its collection.
Direct to City of Vancouver Archives Web Site
+ Photo Search
+ “Everything Search”
+ More Digitized Collections
See Also: The Moore Panorama Digitization Project (via AuthentiCity)
Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Digital Preservation, Resources
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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