Digitizing the Religious News Service Photograph Collection, 1945-1982

FAIN: PW-290499-23

Presbyterian Historical Society (Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516)
Natalie Shilstut (Project Director: July 2022 to present)

The digitization, description, and preservation of 22,500 images and related documents from the Religious News Service collection. The digitized images would be made publicly available via the Presbyterian Historical Society’s digital repository, and the project would support the physical rehousing of the entire collection of 60,000 photo files.

The Presbyterian Historical Society will use an NEH-HCRR Implementation Grant to digitize, describe, and make freely available online 22,500 images and associated documents from the Religious News Service Photograph Collection (date span 1945 to 1982). The two-and-a-half year project will expand on the work of the 2019 NEH HCRR-funded Foundations project, “Digitizing the Religious News Service Photographs: A Planning Project,” during which appraisal, digitization, description, access, and preservation strategies and workflows were developed for a pilot project to digitize and provide access to 493 photo files and rehouse 1,315 photo files.