This week at the Center for Studying Structures of Race has been exciting! We recently received a camera and lighting equipment to photograph our archives. I have been spending a lot of time going through all of our processed objects and books and photographing them. It has been super fun learning how to use the camera and equipment to take high quality photos of a ton of different types of objects. This is the first step in creating a digital archive for CSSR. This digitized archive is going to be incredibly helpful in organizing our collection. Having high quality images of objects to reference is important because right now we only have object descriptions with no photos. The photos added to the digital archive will allow us to quickly find certain things we are looking for and know exactly what is in our collection. This archival work is especially important because we are receiving new acquisitions almost weekly!
