Abstract: This article documents over five years of exploratory
work
digitizing glass plate negatives across Siberia dating from the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article explains the
technical and cultural challenges goveing access to these collections
and offers a preliminary analysis of the themes common to
this collection of over 4,000 images. The article is accompanied by a
photo essay, which provides a sample of the material and the attributions,
as well as references to electronic resources for the full collection
and guides to further digitization.
Sibirica, Vol.8, Summer 2009: 1 – 42 © Berghahn jouals
digitizing glass plate negatives across Siberia dating from the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article explains the
technical and cultural challenges goveing access to these collections
and offers a preliminary analysis of the themes common to
this collection of over 4,000 images. The article is accompanied by a
photo essay, which provides a sample of the material and the attributions,
as well as references to electronic resources for the full collection
and guides to further digitization.
Sibirica, Vol.8, Summer 2009: 1 – 42 © Berghahn jouals