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Subject: Re: NEH Grant to Preserve Nitrate Negatives in the AGSL
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:03:24 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
From: Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]>
To: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
oooh---I want one.
Jon Jablonski
Map & Imagery Laboratory
UC Santa Barbara
----- "Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee"
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: NEH Grant to Preserve Nitrate Negatives in the AGSL
> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:56:04 -0500
> From: Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization: American Geographical Society Library
> To: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> Jon (and Maps-L),
>
> I posted a few pics of our cold storage unit for you to see with a
> description.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/agslibrary/sets/72157631082948440/with/7789338382/
>
> Angie
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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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> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> 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/
> >
>
>
> --
> Jon Jablonski
> Map & Imagery Laboratory
> Davidson Library
> UC Santa Barbara
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