Please pass this on to anyone who may be interested, including those looking for pre-course experience in archives:
Our two year project to catalogue and digitise the RA Gibson studio collection is coming along in leaps and bounds. To see us through the final nine months we need another batch of volunteers with a passion for photography and social history.
The collection of 150,000 negatives captured between 1952 and 1979 by RA Gibson's photography studio records the people of Hackney as they got married, worked, celebrated and mourned. It offers a unique insight into life in this diverse London borough over a 27 year period.
Volunteers will gain experience of caring for a historic photography collection, supporting a large scale digitisation project, creating increased access to collections, researching social histories and using a variety of ways to engage the public with archive collections.
If you have at least 3 hours per week to spare, we would love to hear from you. Please visit www.hackney.gov.uk/archives where you can find a short film about the collection and an application form. Contact us at [log in to unmask] if you would like more information.
You can view some of the digitised collection on our Flickr page (https://www.flickr.com/photos/50897082@N04/) and see an exhibition of prints at the Changing Faces, Hidden Stories exhibition, now on at Hackney Museum.
Lucy Tann
Senior Archives Officer
Hackney Archives, Heritage Services
CLR James Library, Dalston Square, E8 3BQ
020 8356 6424
www.hackney.gov.uk
@ArchivesHackney
Hackney Archives Opening times: Tues-Wed 10-6pm; Thurs 10-7.30pm; Sat 12.30-5p
Archive enquiries: [log in to unmask] Tel: 020 8356 8925
Helping people to share and explore Hackney’s rich and diverse past through unique collections, engaging exhibitions and learning opportunities – to influence a better future together.
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