The day Jessica flew into the TCI, I received a call from a friend of the museum and we took possession of a collection of slides of the early development on Provo. We thought the collection was going to be a few folders, but it turned out to be over 1500 slides in carousels. It took some doing to get the collection to Grand Turk, buta couple large cases and a flight later they arrived.
One of our current projects is to scan all of these slides into our digital collections. Aliatte is doing this in between her class schedule.
Of particular interest this week are the February 1977 images of the anchor and cannon at the DuPont property of which the museum just took possession. These images clearly illustrate the deterioration that happens to artifacts when they are removed from ship wreck sites and given no conservation treatment.
The collection will add to our on going efforts to preserve the early development history of the TCI. After the collection is digitized and cataloged we will be holding a showing and will film several people telling stories about the images.
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