The National Endowment for the Humanities grant will support our project “Arquin Slide Collection Digitization Project: Preserving the Heritage of Latin America,” which will make approximately 20,000 slides available to the public. Photographed by artist and art educator, Florence Arquin in the 1940s and 50s, the slides provide a glimpse into cities across the world with a strong focus on Latin American architecture, art, nature, and life.
Our process will start with shipping the original slides to Backstage Library Works to start the digitization process. While this process is underway we will start to assemble a team of students that will support the creation of the metadata for the slides.
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