Seen here are the before (above) and after (below) photographs of a series of panoramic photographs
Seen here are the before (above) and after (below) photographs of a series of panoramic photographs documenting the construction of the Morgantown Arsenal at Morgantown, West Virginia. In 2015 one of our Archives Specialists, Gail Farr, came across these photographs and identified their need for conservation work (see original post from December 2015 here: https://www.facebook.com/NARAatPhiladelphia/photos/a.152330818154652/925493664171693/?type=3&theater).Since then, the staff at NARA’s Preservation Programs lab in College Park, Maryland have been hard at work carefully flattening, conserving, and digitizing these photographs. Last year, we got the good news that the entire series had been digitized and are available for researchers to review in NARA’s online catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23943198.Last month these photographs were shipped back to our facility in custom housing built specifically for the photographs by NARA’s Preservation Program staff. Thank you to everyone who assisted in preserving these photographs and making them accessible to the public through our online catalog!You can learn more about the photographs and their preservation journey in this Pieces of History blog post from 2018 celebrating the digitization of the series: https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2018/03/05/morgantown-ordnance-works-panoramas-1940-1942/ -- source link
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