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August 2022

Rewriting the Past: The Problem of Historic Language in Museum Collections

Folder of photographs sitting on a desk
Print from the Marshall Family Archives
≠Toma (Khuan//a's son) holding an axe
2001.29.28859
 

The Marshall Family Archives Digitization Project is one of the Peabody Museum’s most ambitious digitization projects to date. With generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the project will make the entire Marshall Family Collection digitally available, creating over 50,000 new media files from the negatives, prints, slides, stereoscopic transparencies, and paper records.... Read more about Rewriting the Past: The Problem of Historic Language in Museum Collections