Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL 33431-6424)
Emily Anne Fenichel (Project Director: July 2019 to present)
PW-269408-20
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$231,588 (approved)
$229,243 (awarded)
Grant period:
6/1/2020 – 5/31/2023
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The Arquin Slide Collection Digitization Project: Preserving the Heritage of Latin America
Cataloging and digitization of 25,000 slides
taken by photographer Florence Arquin during the 1940s and 1950s that document
Latin American and Caribbean heritage and culture, to be made available through
a website at Florida Atlantic University.
The Arquin Slide Collection
Digitization Project will digitize Florence Arquin’s collection of 25,000
slides, create descriptive metadata, archive the images and metadata, and make
the collection accessible in a digital collection through a public website
created with Omeka S. Online access to the collection will serve as a powerful research
tool for scholars throughout the world who study Latin America and the
Caribbean.
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