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Museum Lady
02-06-2009, 19:54
The A.T. Museum Society needs volunteers to help scan approx. 12,600 Polaroids of hikers taken at the ATC since 1979. Volunteers will receive free housing at the Town's Inn (www.thetownsinn.com (http://www.thetownsinn.com)) next door to the outfitters in the historic area of Harpers Ferry in exchange for help with barcoding, scanning and moving the original photographs into better quality albums. We've already finished the first 4000 and hope to get the rest of them scanned this spring. The plan is to have as many of the scans as possible available in a searchable database on the web. This project is being funded by the Quimby Family Foundation (www.quimbyfamilyfoundation.org (http://www.quimbyfamilyfoundation.org)), the folks who brought you Burt's Bees. Please contact me, Terry Harley-Wilson (Toccoah, 2001), Vice President, ATMS if you're interested in volunteering ([email protected]).