PRESS RELEASE - Digitizing Rossland’s Documentary Heritage
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PRESS RELEASE - Digitizing Rossland’s Documentary Heritage

With a major grant of $45,250 from the Department of Canadian Heritage’s Digital Access to History grant program and a supporting grant of $2104.60 from the Columbia Basin Trust’s Resident Directed Grants, the RMDC will be able to digitize a large portion of its vast collection of film and audio materials, ensuring that future generations have access to these valuable cultural artifacts.


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Photographing Large Artifacts
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Photographing Large Artifacts 

Have you ever wondered how we photograph our large artifacts?

This summer, our Collections Manager, Sara, has been slowly working her way through our flag collection and preparing them for rolled storage. This process involves cataloguing, condition reporting, and photographing each of the flags before they get rolled around mylar covered tubes.

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Rossland Map Preservation & Digitization
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Rossland Map Preservation & Digitization

Over the last year, we have been working on re-housing, flattening/encapsulating, and digitizing our map collection!

Our map and drawing collection consists of railway maps, property maps, mine claims and workings, skiing/hiking trails, architectural drawings, and more.

As we progress in the digitization, we have been including the newly catalogued collection in our new collection database, which will be accessible online within the next year.

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