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Category Archives: Behind the Scenes
What I Learned Digitizing 100-Year-Old Negatives
The American Heritage Center offers internships for University of Wyoming students in various areas. One example is the opportunity to work with Grace Derby, the Center’s Photography Lab Supervisor. Students learn procedures for preserving historic photographic materials. Here, Gabby Castro … Continue reading
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Tagged Archival photography, Clark H. Getts, Digital preservation, Digitization, Gabby Castro, Glass plate negatives, Grace Derby, Historic photographs, Large format photography, Negative scanning, Osa Johnson, Photographic negatives, Photographic preservation, Photography, preservation, Preservation methods, Sheet film, Student internships, Wet plate negatives
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Studying Stan – The Creation of Stan Lee: Beyond the Book
In June 2023, a team of three University of Wyoming student interns began researching the papers of Stan Lee, which are housed at the American Heritage Center (AHC). Their interns’ intention was to create an exciting and informative exhibit about … Continue reading
Posted in American Heritage Center, Behind the Scenes, Entertainment, Exhibits
Tagged Archival Research, Bob Dylan Center, Cartoons, Comic Books, Curation, Exhibit Design, Fan Mail, Hugh Hefner, Jack Kirby, Kartoon Studios, Marvel Comics, POW! Entertainment, Stan Lee, Stan Lee Media, Student Interns, Woody Guthrie Center
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Behind the Scenes at the Cone: Organizing and Processing History
Organizing and arranging historical documents can be difficult. And at a world-renowned archive like the one at the University of Wyoming, there are a select number of people who can manage it. One of them is AHC Processing Archivist Roger … Continue reading
Behind the Scenes at the Cone: Arranging Items from History
In a place like the American Heritage Center (AHC), which houses tens of thousands of historical documents, it can be hard to navigate them and figure out what each collection is. Thankfully, the Center has Jamie Greene, the Manager of … Continue reading
Behind the Scenes at the Cone: Intaking History
The American Heritage Center (AHC) is home to thousands of different historical materials ranging from letters, diaries, and photos to oral history recordings and original artwork, just to name a few. But how what happens when collections come through the … Continue reading
Preserving History, One Negative at A Time
The American Heritage Center is home to nearly 90,000 cubic feet of historically significant collection material, representing centuries of cultural heritage within a wide range of subject matter. Whether it be a paper document, work of art, three-dimensional artifact, analog … Continue reading
Posted in American Heritage Center, Archives, Behind the Scenes
Tagged 19th century, Acetate film, Archival Materials, archival preservation, Digitization Techniques, Historical photographs, Historical Photos, Historical preservation, Nitrate film, Nitrate Film Preservation, Photographic collections, Photography
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Digital Preservation 101: Demystifying the Digital
Have you ever wondered about what happens to the digital files that get donated to the American Heritage Center? Or what happens with files that were created on software that no longer exists? Can the AHC deal with 5” floppy … Continue reading