Erie Canal Museum

The Erie Canal Museum will add 1,200 digital images and associated metadata of historic visual materials from the Erie Canal museum's collections to the New York Heritage Digital Collections website. This online access will enable scholars and other educators to use the collection in a more accessible manner. For more than fifty years, the museum has been dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and interpretation of New York state's canal heritage, but until recently, access to the museum's collections has been limited to on-site use only. An assigned project archivist will select the 1,200 images from an existing pool of digital scans derived from the museum's collections and catalog the selection with related metadata under New York Heritage Digital Collections guidelines to prepare for the uploading to the Heritage website.