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Engraving of William Allingham
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From a letter found at https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/8ccaf9e0-db09-013b-46a1-02d0d7bfd6e4-a
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An example of a luma curve used to highlight watermarks.
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The 413 Copystand in its usual configuration.
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An underlit letter with boosted contrast
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From a letter available at https://digital.library.illinois.edu/items/f4dda570-a722-013b-454f-02d0d7bfd6e4-6
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Variations on our first watermark capture attempt.
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Complete watermark setup with item on plexi
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From left to right, standing: John Henrik Clark and Ron Milner; seated on sofa: Margaret Danner, John O. Killens, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Seated on the right side: Imamu Amiri Baraka and Lerone Bennett Jr.
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Inscription on back of Color photograph of Joseph Burrell holding Sukari the cat photograph.
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Joseph Burrell pictured cradling cat, Sukari, both looking over Joseph's shoulder at the camera.
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Black & white photograph of Nora Brooks Blakely, daughter of Gwendolyn Brooks posing outside her house with Fluffy. Inscribed on verso: "Flowers and Fluffy," "Fluffy and Nora (our tree) (Nora's 15th birthday)"
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1 photographic album, 16 pages, 5 groupings of inserts, 403 photographs
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Black & white photograph of Gwendolyn Brooks (standing) with Lynell Cain. Inscribed on verso: G. Brooks, Columbia College, Chicago, and Lynell Cain."
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Video showing the album view of the Red Album from the Gwendolyn Brooks Collection on the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Digital Library.
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Video showing the item view of the Red Album from the Gwendolyn Brooks Collection on the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Digital Library.
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Video showing the process of doing transmissive digitization of the Gwendolyn Brooks negatives and editing the images after digitization.
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Poem handwritten in cursive on notebook paper cut down to size. Titled "Forgive and Forget," labeled "age 13."
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Poem handwritten in cursive on notebook paper cut down to size. Titled
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Handling newspaper clippings in the black scrapbook, which arrived disbound. The left hand is flipping through the items for reference images, this view shows an inserted article housed in mylar and the right page facing it, the verso is partially visible with clippings adhered to the scrapbook page.
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Reference image of a newspaper folded and inserted into the black scrapbook, to help keep order of inserted items that vary in size digitally matching their archival physical arrangement.
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A screenshot of the composite view as viewed from the digitization software used, Capture One, with the red scrapbook displayed open and a color target cropped out below. The main image in the middle is showing both verso and recto pages with photographs inserted into the album's pages loosely and an inserted photograph with Gwendolyn Brooks's likeness torn out. To the right are thumbnail views that illustrate the split crop used in generating page views for this item for reference purposes. The item was shot as spreads and digitally cropped into pages for the Digital Collections Library view.
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Graphical user interface, Excel and Capture One, view shows metadata for poems and newspaper clippings as it was used to match descriptive information with digital files in the digitization process.
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From "A Pictorial History of the Negro in America," The New York Times Book Review, c. 1956- Brittle newspaper clipping from the New York Times, features photographs of Gwendolyn Brooks and Diplomat Ralph Bunche from "A Pictorial History of the Negro in America," by Milton Meltzer and Langston Hughes.
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"Girls" drawing on paper with tears before it was treated in the conservation lab.