| Creating a Digital Database of the Richard Cross Photographic Collection at the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at CSU
The arrangement, description, and selected
digitization of a collection of 35,000 images produced by American
photojournalist Richard Cross, documenting civil wars in Central America during
the 1970s-80s as well as daily life in the city of Palenque de San Basilio in
Colombia, populated by descendants of the oldest community of escaped slaves in
the Americas.
This proposal seeks funding to enable the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center to create a digital archive of photographs by Richard Cross. Digitizing these photographs will preserve and allow broad access to a threatened visual repository, which addresses themes of import to Black communities that resisted enslavement, and which embodies the collective visual memory of the lived experience of war in Central America.
[Grant products][Media coverage]
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Project fields:
Anthropology; Journalism; Latin American History
Program:
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Division:
Preservation and Access
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Totals:
$315,000 (approved)
$314,561 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2018 – 10/31/2021
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