Family tree by means of Images: Exploring Household Photographs

During this webinar, you’ll learn to seek for household images on the Filson Historical Society together with a fundamental overview of nineteenth century photographic codecs and storage options to your collections.

What You Will Learn

The Filson Historical Society situated in Old Louisville has over 100,000 photographic gadgets inside its assortment. A big portion is comprised of native Louisville, Southern Indiana, and Kentucky household images. While chances are you’ll be accustomed to the Filson’s library assets, many neglect about our visible assets. Filson’s Curator of Manuscripts, and former Curator of Photographs & Prints will give an summary of the Filson’s Photographic Collections, an summary of nineteenth century photographic codecs, and a few recommendations on learn how to protect your individual household images.

Speaker

Heather Potter is the Curator of Manuscripts and former Curator of Photographs & Prints at The Filson Historical Society; prior she was a Project Archivist on the Kentucky Historical Society. Potter acquired her BA in History from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, and MLS with an emphasis in Archives from Indiana University – Bloomington.

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If you aren’t a member, you possibly can select to hitch the Society and attend this webinar without spending a dime. You may even have free entry to all webinars within the subsequent 12 months in addition to entry to all of our previous webinars within the Learning Library.