Augusta Richmond County Museum

Through its Accessing Augusta project, Augusta Museum of History will digitize and make public a portion of its Fitz-Symms Photography Studio Collection, one of the museum's most highly requested collections for image reproduction and research. Photo negatives in the collection capture a range of historical and anthropological data from the 1940s through 1990s, and illustrate the culture, economy, and race relations of a changing southern city. Staff will scan, rehouse, and upload metadata for 12,000 negatives, which will ultimately be available to the public through multiple platforms with the assistance of the South Carolina Digital Library, the Digital Library of Georgia, the Center for the Study of Georgia History, and the Digital Public Library of America.