Digitization of Negatives and Prints from the Helen Clay Frick Foundation (HCFF) Archives
The Conservation Department was given the responsibility of preserving the HCFF Archives’ visual materials in 2000. Since that time, more than 5,000 nitrate, glass and acetate negatives have been digitized. A program to scan photographs in the Archive is currently underway, and a number of images from photograph albums have been scanned to satisfy reader requests.
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Broken glass plate negatives can be scanned and the images restored.
To see the restored image, roll your cursor on top of this fractured image. |
Digital Project for Endangered Negatives
(Pforzheimer/NYT, 2004-7)
In 2003, the Library initiated a project to digitize 5,000 spoiling acetate negatives in the Collection. High-resolution digital images of the negatives are captured on a Creo Scitex Eversmart Select flatbed scanner.
Digital Project for Endangered Sansoni and Cooper Negatives
(ARTstor, 2005-7)
In 2004, the Library undertook a project to digitize negatives photographed by Mario Sansoni and the firm of A. C. Cooper. Images from fragile glass plate negatives are captured on a copy stand using a Better Light 8K scanning back attached to a Linhof camera. Additionally, an outside vendor is digitizing more than 7,000 interpositives. All images are reviewed in the lab to ensure image quality. Digitized images will become available through ARTstor’s database.
Historic Frick Family Motion Pictures
In 1918, Helen Clay Frick contracted with a photographer to film her family at Eagle Rock, the Frick summer estate in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts. In 2001, a project to reformat and digitize these films was completed.
The Conservation Department determined the reformatting and digitizing specifications and oversaw the completion of the work through several outside vendors. The films were copied onto polyester film stock, transferred to digital Beta SP tape, and then burned onto DVD.
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