Museum of the City of New York

The Museum of the City of New York will increase online access to its LOOK Magazine collection for the benefit of scholars, curators, educators, and general history enthusiasts. The project will continue an ongoing endeavor to digitize the LOOK collection by focusing on the comprehensive cataloging of the works of staff photographer John Vachon (1914-1975) and creating access through the museum's online collections portal to an estimated 11,100 digital images from 54 of his assignments for the magazine. The collection exists primarily as negatives, a format that renders the material nearly inaccessible for researchers and curators alike. Project activities will include a symposium for colleagues in the field, where the museum will share its methodology, process, and workflow for implementing large-scale digitization projects.