The key to good collection management is planning and perseverance. A thoughtfully considered plan of action may save dollars as well as your collection. First decide what is most important to preserve, then stabilize the storage environment. Use archival quality materials for storage and display, make copies for backup and …
Ohio Photographers 1839-1900. By Diane VanSkiver Gagel. (2013. Pp. 371. $42.75. Paperback. Baltimore: Clearfield Company for Genealogical Publishing Company. ISBN: 978-0-8063-5669-3.) www.genealogical.com Statewide resources on early photography are few and far between. A brief check of OCLC’s WorldCat shows just six states with statewide directories, a clue to how difficult …
For July’s Second Saturday, attendees were treated to a tag team presentation by a couple of great local experts. Bill Marshall, Author and Retired Director of Special Collections at the University of Kentucky, joined Jen Duplaga, our KHS Archivist, Special Collections & Digital Programs Administrator, for a two hour exploration …
Last week, the KHS Special Collections and Library team traveled to Winchester to host another Piecing Together History Event – hoping to connect photographs back to a community. The Studio Negatives Collection of photographer William B. Ogden consists of over 10,000 images. As a local photographer who traveled the region, …