Yale Research Group Launches Fascinating Search Platform for 170k FSA-OWI Images
By Conor Risch
Image caption: Modern riverboat, St. Louis, Missouri, 1940, by John Vachon.
An image of the Photogrammar’s map tool, which visualizes the quantities of images FSA-OWI photographers made in regions around the country.
A group of researchers at Yale just launched “a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).”
The platform, which they’re calling Photogrammar, allows people to use visual tools to search through the digitized photographs from the FSA-OWI archive, which is housed at the Library of Congress. The …read more
Via: PDN Pulse
