Museum of the City of New York, Inc. (New York, NY 10029-5287)
Lindsay Turley (Project Director: July 2017 to November 2022)
PW-259053-18
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$96,618 (approved)
$96,618 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2018 – 10/31/2020
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Eyes on America: Processing and Cataloging the LOOK Collection
Processing a collection of approximately 170,000
photographic negatives from LOOK magazine,
including cataloging, copyright research, evaluation, and creation of 8,500
reference scans.
This eighteen-month project is
part of an ongoing endeavor to provide access to the LOOK Collection, which includes
photographs for 2,242 stories from 41 different photographers made between 1938
and 1968 for LOOK magazine, and vividly documents the cultural transformation
of the nation from World War II through the Cold War era. Rather than
continuing to focus efforts solely on digitization, the Museum determined that
the next phase of this project should be to process the collection as a unit.
This project will continue our progress toward increased public access to
photographs from the LOOK Collection through processing, assignment level
cataloging, copyright research, and evaluation.
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