Allison Robinson | The Baltimore Collection

Beyond Anonymity: Imagining the Life of One Unidentified Sitter

by Allison Robinson | Dec 4, 2017 | Location, Unknown Location

The students of Curating Hidden Collections & the Black Archive worked tirelessly to uncover the provenance, date range, and techniques used to produce the photographs of the Baltimore Collection, as well as the identities of the sitters and photographers. We...

Learning to Question the Library (And How You Can Do It Too)

by Allison Robinson | Dec 4, 2017 | Theorizing the archive, Theory & Practice

The library is not just a physical building designed to hold books nor an unquestionable authority holding the knowledge of our forebears. Rather, it is a constantly shifting, changing, and evolving organizational system, driven collectively by the librarians working...