Wyoming State Archives Projects
I’ve been volunteering at Wyoming State Archives in Cheyenne for close to a year. In this time, I’ve worked on all sorts of projects: Description and organization of new photo collections, scanning photos for the online database, reassembling a collection, and labeling research prints.
My least favorite project was scanning in aerial photos of the Cheyenne area. It felt like I scanned in a few thousand maps, especially when I had to scan the same map several times due to masking tape. Whoever thought masking tape on photos as a way to create a panoramic view was a good idea should have to scan in those maps as punishment.
Yesterday, I saw the fruits of this labor. Disable your pop-up blocker for a few minutes and go here. Enter the user name ‘public’ and password ‘public’. Select Aerial Photos from the drop down menu and poke around the 196 photos I scanned. I also assisted in the description of these photos. If you have some time to kill, you can use the section and directions to create your very own map of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and surrounding areas circa 1950s.