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Video: Cultural Heritage: “The Digitization of New York Public Library’s Carl Van Vechten Slide Collection”

Filed by on September 2, 2018

Video provided on YouTube by Digital Transitions.

From the Description:

An inside look into the New York Public Library’s project to digitize their collection of slides by Dance Critic, Novelist, Journalist, and Photographer Carl Van Vechten. His preoccupation with the dance performers of his day lead him to capture thousands of unique and colorful images. This video takes a look into the process of digitizing over 800 of these slides using the highest-quality digitization equipment available.

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See Also: Jerome Robbins Dance Division Digital Collections

See Also: Carl Van Vechten Theatre Photographs (via NYPL Digital Collections

See Also: Jerome Robbins Dance Division (NYPL)

See Also: Van Vechten Collection (via Library of Congress)

About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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