Silver Gelatin DOP | Fisk University Archives
Photographer not known
Fisk faculty posed for a photograph, 1888
Gelatin silver developing out print
Before treatment, recto
During treatment, verso
After treatment, recto
After treatment, verso
Treatment rationale and goals:
This photograph is part of the archival collection of Fisk University. The WUDPAC Class of 2027 was tasked with examining and treating a collection of photographs from Fisk University during their first-year Photo Conservation Block. This collection represents the history of the University—the photographs capture students, faculty, and staff, and document events, convocations, arts festivals, and campus culture. Preserving these photographs ensures continued access by current and past students, researchers, and family members of past students and faculty who access them. The University plans to increase the accessibility of its archives through digitization, so the photographs must be stable for handling.
This treatment was supervised by photograph conservators Debra Hess Norris and Barbara Lemmen.