Amherst College Scrapbooks Collection

black and white photograph of Amherst, MA featuring Amherst College, 1800s

Documentation
Size: 62 linear feet (only selected portions will be digitized)
Pre-digitization surveys: Not yet started
Trello card [restricted to internal users; contact us to learn more]
Finding aid

Timeline
Year two (2018 – 2019): finish partial collection
– Pre-digitization surveys: Not yet started
– Archives will recommend scrapbooks for digitization
– Digitization start
– Metadata start
– Digitization complete
– Metadata complete
– Ingest selections into ACDC

Notes

  • Eventually, we may digitize this collection in full, but scrapbooks are too complex to digitize for us to prioritize digitizing the entire collection now. Instead, we will select approximately one scrapbook per decade as a representative sample.

You can also view our collection overview for this project.