VIRTUAL Saving Your Family Photos

Learn how to identify, preserve, and interpret the old photographs in your personal collection. 

This online workshop will help you rethink the role photography has had in our lives and develop a plan so you can confidently manage your collection, even if it includes thousands of images. This is a quick-paced, introductory workshop that incorporates authentic examples of 19th and 20th century images.

Attendees will:

Learn the basics of the history of photography and photographic processes.

Be challenged to think about photographic images in new ways and explore the many things that can be learned from a single image.

Learn how to best preserve, store, share, and display photographs to keep them safe, organized, and accessible for future generations.

Each workshop comes with a link to a specialized resource guide that can be accessed online.

Presenter Lindsey Smith is a museum curator and educator who loves to help people interpret, preserve, and better understand the objects that make up our world. Lindsey has developed a series of introductory-level workshops and courses that combine her professional background with the needs and interests of individuals. Lindsey has an MA in Historical Administration and has held positions at: Living History Farms (IA), the Iowa Jewish Historical Society, Des Moines University Archives, and the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. Lindsey also spent a decade as a museum exhibits and collections consultant, and served on the Governor-appointed Iowa Historical Records Advisory Board. She is currently the Artifact Assessment Program Coordinator for the New Jersey Association of Museums. Lindsey is the CEO of Hangerbee, a textile preservation supply company she founded in 2014.

The program is open to all.  Registration is required. To register, please visit the event calendar at www.livingstonlibrary.org.  Registered attendees will be emailed the Zoom link the day before the event.

This program is made possible with the support of The Friends of the Livingston Public Library.