American Antiquarian Society

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), in partnership with the American Social History Project at the City University of New York Graduate Center, will conduct a collaborative planning grant designed to lay the foundation for a long-term project called Contextualizing the Visual Archive for Teaching. During the planning phase, AAS will conduct more extensive research among potential users and carry out preliminary programming on a small set of test images for an online, open-source resource that will allow visual images from any library or museum collection to be linked to collection records and other materials. This project is intended to build an interactive online interface for teachers working with high school and college students that will link historical American images to rich contextual information as well as to full catalog records.