• Check out the latest update on the Magnum Project from Library Assistant Rebecca Wells: This week marks one year since the start of the major rehousing project for the @MagnumPhotos, Inc. collection. The primary goal of the project is to ready the collection for safe storage and handling by providing protective sleeves, supports, and boxes for 170,000 photograph prints. The project is 65% complete; the collection will be fully re-housed by mid-April 2020. This past year's work has resulted in 600 new document boxes filled with 13,000 folders, and 1,200 custom flat boxes holding in excess of 30,500 oversize prints. A number of #Preservation and #Conservation staff and volunteers have assisted the project by digitizing the versos of all oversize prints. Printouts of the digital images are inserted into the polypropylene sleeves behind the thin corrugated boards that add support to the prints for storage and handling. Users consulting the prints are able to see an image of the versos of the photographs without having to remove the prints from their sleeves. Stay tuned for an end-of-project update! 📸 #magnumphotos #magnumphotography #photoconservation #photography #harryransomcenter
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    Check out the latest update on the Magnum Project from Library Assistant Rebecca Wells: This week marks one year since the start of the major rehousing project for the @MagnumPhotos, Inc. collection. The primary goal of the project is to ready the collection for safe storage and handling by providing protective sleeves, supports, and boxes for 170,000 photograph prints. The project is 65% complete; the collection will be fully re-housed by mid-April 2020. This past year's work has resulted in 600 new document boxes filled with 13,000 folders, and 1,200 custom flat boxes holding in excess of 30,500 oversize prints. A number of #Preservation and #Conservation staff and volunteers have assisted the project by digitizing the versos of all oversize prints. Printouts of the digital images are inserted into the polypropylene sleeves behind the thin corrugated boards that add support to the prints for storage and handling. Users consulting the prints are able to see an image of the versos of the photographs without having to remove the prints from their sleeves. Stay tuned for an end-of-project update! 📸 #magnumphotos #magnumphotography #photoconservation #photography #harryransomcenter