University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Archives
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Documents from the Penn Museum Archives
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About the Penn Museum Archives
The Penn Museum Archives is the institutional repository for the Penn Museum and the work of its archaeologists and anthropologists. The collections include 2,500 feet of records; these records document the Museum's archaeological expeditions to every inhabited continent, the history of the Penn Museum, and the history of the practices of archaeology and anthropology. Further, we hold three-quarters of a million images and nearly one thousand reels of film.
Image standards and specifications
Images from the Penn Museum Archives collections were shot and processed by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image. In general, The Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image follows the NISO standards as articulated in A Framework for Building Good Digital Collections, 3rd Edition:
The following represents specific standards adopted by SCETI in their capture of digital images.
Image specifications
- Archival Masters: 600 ppi 24-bit raw TIFF color image
- "Golden Thread" color target is used for every exposure. Target also includes interference pattern and inch/centimeter markings. Target is also used to check focus.
Imaging and processing equipment
- Cameras: IQ280 80 megapixel Phase One digital camera
- Lenses: Schneider Kreuznach lenses
- Software: Phase One Capture One Pro; Photoshop CS3
Master images are captured at a resolution of at least 600 pixels per inch of the image subject. Once all of the images for a manuscript have been captured they are color-corrected, deskewed, and cropped.
The documents on OPenn
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PU-Mu. 1080, Box 2, Item 1:
Catalogue of the Stone and Terra Cotta Implements and Ornaments of the North American Mound Builders
(Mississippi River Valley, From 1838 to 1848)
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PU-Mu. 2014, Box 1:
Erinnerungen aus Egypten (Memories of Egypt)
(Zurich, Switzerland, Circa 1895)
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PU-Mu. 2014, Box 2:
Palastina I (Palestine I)
(Zurich, Switzerland, Circa 1895)
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PU-Mu. 2014, Box 3:
Palastina II (Palestine II)
(Zurich, Switzerland, Circa 1895)
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PU-Mu. 2014, Box 4:
Photographische Studien (Photographic Studies)
(Zurich, Switzerland, Circa 1895)
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