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Subject: NEH Grant to Preserve Nitrate Negatives in the AGSL
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:13:44 -0500
From: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
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Thanks Jon! I'll get a pic and post it at our flickr site and let you
know when it's ready.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/page4/

Angie

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Subject: Re: NEH Grant to Preserve Nitrate Negatives in the AGSL
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:57:32 -0700
From: Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]>
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Lovely!

I wanna see photos of the cold storage!!!

On 8/10/2012 1:47 PM, Angela R Cope wrote:
> *SAVING AND SHARING THE AGS LIBRARY’S HISTORIC NITRATE*
> *NEGATIVE IMAGES*
>
> *An NEH-Funded Project*
>
> *American Geographical Society Library*
> *University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries*
>
> In 2010 the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) generously
> funded a two-year project to preserve and provide access to the American
> Geographical Society Library's seventy thousand nitrate negatives. These
> invaluable images span every continent with the exception of Antarctica
> and document a global range of peoples, cultures, and landscapes as seen
> through the eyes of geographers, adventurers and professional photo
> journalists.
>
>
> The AGS Library is the former research library of the American
> Geographical Society (AGS), which was founded in the early 1850s to
> promote the collection of geographical information and to establish and
> maintain a library with a collection of maps, charts and instruments.
> Through the years, the AGS Library succeeding in building a
> distinguished photographic collection, with images dating from the
> mid-nineteenth century to the present, which included a sizable number
> of nitrate negatives. Cellulose nitrate film, introduced in 1889, was an
> important innovation in photography and was popular for well over half a
> century. It is, however, a volatile and flammable material, and it was
> clear that the AGSL’s deteriorating negatives required immediate attention.
>
>
> The NEH-funded project enabled the AGS Library to rehouse, scan, create
> metadata for, publish online and provide cold storage for these historic
> images.
>
>
> To view the results of this project please go to :
>
> http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/NEHgrant/
>


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Jon Jablonski
Map & Imagery Laboratory
Davidson Library
UC Santa Barbara