Western History and Genealogy

About the Photodigitization Project

In 1997, when the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) project PA-22924-97 was awarded, the Denver Public Library's Photodigitization project entered a new phase. Through prior grants from NEH and the Boettcher Foundation, the initial planning, selection of equipment, and development of cataloging and scanning standards had been completed. Based on the success of these grants, the Library was successful in obtaining funds from several local, state, and federal grant agencies.

The Denver Public Library was faced with the challenge of quickly expanding its project to meet the demands of several new grants. Each of the grants had to be reviewed to determine areas of overlap and to ensure that the goals of each project were complementary. The Library had to devise processing schedules to allow for the scanning and cataloging of more than 50,000 images.

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Songlike Pueblo [1899].