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Project Details

Photo archive of Iowa family snapshots, all licensed to the Creative Commons.

Subjects or Themes

Vernacular Photography, Amateur Photography, Family Snapshots, Iowa History, Rural History, Midwest HIstory

Project Language(s)

English

Time Period

Geographic Location

Project Categories

Content Type

Photographs, Crowdsourcing, Timeline

Target Audience(s)

Creators

Bettina Fabos, Noah Doely, Leisl Carr Childers, Sergey Golitsynskiy

Year(s)

2015 and ongoing

Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location

University of Northern Iowa

Software Employed

  • hand coded software

Labor and Support

This project is ongoing. We have engaged over 700 students, over 500 image donors, and thousands of hours of labor scanning images, designing and coding both front end and back end, and working with a volunteer network.

Project Cost

Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement

University of Northern Iowa Humanities Iowa