North Lake Tahoe Digitization Day

FAIN: PY-234508-16

University of Nevada, Reno (Reno, NV 89557-0001)
Scott C. Hinton (Project Director: June 2015 to December 2015)
Peter J. Goin (Project Director: December 2015 to April 2017)

The digitization of visual materials and print media relating the history of Lake Tahoe, as well as lectures by a local historian and a photographer that would place the visual documentation of this region, long known for its natural beauty and leisure opportunities, in a broader historical context. The North Lake Tahoe Historical Society would join with the University of Nevada at Reno to gather and preserve historic visual materials, with an emphasis on pre-1970s resources, which are held in personal collections. The project would fill gaps in the local archival record, a particularly pressing need in a region that has been often devastated by forest fires, which has resulted in the destruction of cultural heritage collections and their dispersal through institutions across the country.

The North Lake Tahoe Digitization Day will invite community members to bring in historical visual materials for expert-supervised digitization and instruction in basic preservation strategies. NLTHS staff and UNR Photography faculty will organize 4-5 presentations for the day, including talks by professional photographers on their reprographic work; by the NLTHS executive director; by the Photograph Archivist; and by a local historian, highlighting contexts in which historical photographs can be used (emphasizing the importance of Community donations and how the community can themselves use archival materials). In additiona, the NLTHS will host docent-led tours of its museum, and will offer a Photo ID station for participants to identify locations or persons in images from the archives. Images acquired during the course of the day will be included in the NLTHS's Past Perfect system, providing public access to anyone interested in researching North Lake Tahoe's rich cultural history.

Associated Products

The Nature of Lake Tahoe, A Photographic History 1860-1960 (Book)
Title: The Nature of Lake Tahoe, A Photographic History 1860-1960
Author: Peter Goin
Abstract: The Sierra Nevada contains three national parks, twenty wilderness areas, and two national monuments. Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America, is its crown jewel. A premier destination for tourists and environmentalists and the traditional home of the Washoe people, the history of Lake Tahoe and the Tahoe Basin is a complex mixture of geology, conquest and resettlement, industry, adventure, and grand vistas. Preserving this rich history through an extensive collection of archival images, Peter Goin presents a photographic history of the Tahoe Basin over a hundred-year period in The Nature of Lake Tahoe. With more than two hundred duotone and color photographs, this collection showcases Tahoe’s elemental identity, including photographs never before reproduced and large-scale panoramic landscapes that appear in visually stunning gatefolds. Readers will be delighted by the many restored photographs that provide evidence that Lake Tahoe is what it is today in large part because of its dramatic visual history.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://unmpress.com/books/nature-lake-tahoe/9780826359360
Secondary URL: http://https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=The+Nature+of+Lake+Tahoe
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-8263-593
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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