{"id":16474,"date":"2013-12-02T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16474"},"modified":"2013-11-30T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T17:17:58","slug":"historic-photos-in-falls-going-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/02\/historic-photos-in-falls-going-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic photos in Falls going digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city-region\/niagara-falls\/historic-photos-in-falls-going-digital-20131123\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of the Niagara Falls Public Library\u2019s historical pictures of the city are falling apart.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s to be expected \u2013 some are 150 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The roughly 10,000 historic photographs in the archives of the Local History Department are being given new life thanks to a new digitization project at the library by City Historian Christopher R. Stoianoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a need for it, that\u2019s the biggest thing,\u201d Stoianoff said when asked how the effort began.<\/p>\n<p>The photographs, contained in a half-dozen filing cabinets, are the most heavily used and handled items in the Local History Department.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a preservation issue, both for the quality of the pieces \u2013 some of which are crumbling \u2013 as well as to prevent more photographs from \u201cdisappearing\u201d from the library.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to have all the images accessible online through the library\u2019s website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: Many of the Niagara Falls Public Library\u2019s historical pictures of the city are falling apart. That\u2019s to be expected \u2013 some are 150 years old. The roughly 10,000 historic photographs in the archives of the Local History Department are being given new life thanks to a new digitization project at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,54,2],"tags":[9372,9371,4640,738,9370,920,725,517,926],"class_list":["post-16474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-christopher-r-stoianoff","tag-city-historian","tag-historic-photos","tag-history","tag-local-history-department","tag-niagara-falls-public-library","tag-photographs","tag-photos","tag-pictures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}