Workshop: Caring for Personal Photograph Collections

Saturday October 6th
9:00-12:00
Green Bay Area Rsearch Center
Cofrin Library
Room 705
University of Wisconsin- Green Bay (directions)

“FROM DAGUERREOTYPE TO DIGITAL FILE: ORGANIZING AND CARING FOR FAMILY AND PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTIONS”

Do you have boxes of unsorted photographs or albums that are falling apart? Are you confused or unsure of what you have, what to keep, and how to arrange and store it? In celebration of Archives Month 2007, the Wisconsin Historical Society Library and Archives is offering a workshop on caring for family and personal photograph collections on Saturday, October 6, 2007 at the UW Green Bay Area Research Center, Cofrin Library, Room 705,UW Green Bay Campus.

Since 1839 when photography was first introduced, people have been collecting photographs as a means of documenting their family history. The variety of photographic processes and the quantity of photographs in family/personal collections often leads to uncertainty in how best to care for historical and modern photographs. This hands-on workshop will provide a basic overview of the types of photographic processes that make up family and personal collections, how best to care for your photographs including appropriate storage techniques and containers, strategies for organizing your images, and several methods for providing access to your images whether they are printed on paper or stored on your hard drive.

The workshop will be lead by David Benjamin, Visual Materials Archivist at the Wisconsin Historical Society, a position he has held since 1994. David has been a practicing archivist for over twenty years and has been teaching workshops on how to organize and care for family and personal photograph collections for the past six years.


LIMITED TO 12 REGISTRANTS PER WORKSHOP
Fees: $45 for WHS members, $50 for non-WHS members
Workshops run from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon. If there is enough response a second workshop will be added at each location from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
FURTHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT
www.wisconsinhistory.org/archivesmonth/events.asp

Free Lecture: Collecting and Identifying Family Photographs

Friday evening 7 p.m.
October 5, 2007
Mary Ann Cofrin Hall
Room 208
University of Wisconsin- Green Bay (directions)

FREE public presentation:


“From the Present to the Past: Collecting and Identifying Family Photographs”

Inherited a box of family photographs? Curious as to why you have blue eyes or curly hair? Interested in documenting your life and the lives of your family members? Photographs are time capsules documenting and providing insight into our lives and the lives of our ancestors. And, while individual images provide information about one or two people, a collection of photographs, arranged and identified, tell the story of an individual’s lifetime or the history of an entire family. In “From the Present to the Past: Collecting and Identifying Family Photographs,” David Benjamin, Visual Materials Archivist at the Wisconsin Historical Society, provides ideas on where and how to start a family photograph collection, how to locate additional images to add to your collection, what we can learn by “reading” a photograph, and what methods to use for identifying and dating family photographs. He also provides a brief history of photography as it relates to family collections.

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