by Danielle Bing | May 12, 2021 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, CHC Project Team Spring 2021, Tintypes
Portrait of a seated woman and standing child. Tintype (collodion and silver image on japanned iron). Circa 1860-1880. Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Museums, and Press. Black Portrait Photograph Collection. “A photograph is worth a thousand...
by Danielle Bing | May 12, 2021 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Finding Aids
My finding aid for the Black Portrait Photograph Collection was created with the intent of not only providing information for the location of the collection, but also to provide some information without trying to overpower the photographs within the collection. The...
by TK Smith | May 12, 2021 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, CHC Project Team Spring 2021, Crayon Enlargements
Crayon enlargement, circa 1920s. GRA 0140, Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware. Crayon enlargement, circa 1920s. GRA 0140, Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Special Collections, University of...
by Julie McGee | May 5, 2021 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, CHC Project Team Spring 2021
Curating Hidden Collections & the Black Archive (Spring 2021) Spring 2021 marked the second convening of Curating Hidden Collections & the Black Archive seminar. The seminar met virtually; the context of two pandemics, coronavirus and systemic racism, was...
by LaStarsha McGarity | May 3, 2021 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Tintypes
Press play below to hear an audio version of this post: I would define myself as a highly tactile person so when I say let me see, I often mean let me touch or hold the object in question. Throughout this course, we have worked with the Black Portrait Collection...
by LaStarsha McGarity | May 3, 2021 | Black Portrait Photograph Collection, Finding Aids
As I entered this course, I was first apprehensive that my training as a conservator would impede my ability to adequately describe the Black Portrait Photograph Collection or create finding aids of use. As an object conservator, once an object reached me I felt...
