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processing

 
n. ~ 1.  preparing archival materials for use  2. the steps taken to make the latent image on exposed photographic film visible
 
Related Term 
accession
 
Narrower Terms 
arrangement
description
house
 
Synonym 
archival processing
 
Categories 

ARRANGEMENT
AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS
DESCRIPTION
PHOTOGRAPHY


Citations¹
BitCurator Consortium, "Why Digital Forensics" [web page] (accessed 02-27-2019).
 
Gilliland, Anne J., Conceptualizing 21st-Century Archives (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2014): 104–105.
 
Hackbart-Dean, Pam, and Slomba, Elizabeth, How to Manage Processing In Archives and Special Collections (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2012): 1.
 
Citations²
Charbonneau, Normand, “The Selection of Photographs,” Archivaria 59 (2005): 123, fn 8.

McCann, Laura, "The Whole Story: News Agency Photographs in Newspaper Photo Morgue Collections," American Archivist 80:1 (Spring/Summer 2017): 166.
 
Moore, John, review of Shoots: A Guide to Your Family’s Photographic Heritage by Thomas L. Davies, in Archivaria 6 (Summer 1978): 206.
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