Brick Store Museum

The Brick Store Museum will digitize and catalog its archival collection, beginning with an estimated 4,400 photographic images, by hiring a staff person who will work with the current collections manager to initiate the digitization of the collection as well as purchase the necessary equipment. This project will include the following tasks: digitization of all photographic images, cataloging them into a database, and establishing a program that will provide access to them through the museum's website. This project will digitize the photographs (2,000 including prints, slides, transparencies and films), 2,000 glass plate negatives, 150 daguerreotypes, 150 stereographs, and begin digitizing the museum's microfilm collection. The goals for this project are to reach a wider audience through online exhibitions, and crowd source information for unidentified photographs where the local community can provide additional information to create a deeper historical interpretation.