Author Archives: Miguel Rodrigues

BT Archives: Digitisation of Historic Posters

We’ve just completed digitisation of a small series of interesting General Post Office posters for the BT Archives; all of which hover around the WW2 period (1930s to 1950s). These were the six remaining items that still required digitisation and generation of suitable access copies, in a larger batch of posters that will be made [...]

Digitising William Morris’s Lantern Slides (Part 3)

We stumbled upon fascinating facets of lantern slide creation, assembly and ageing processes during digitisation of the William Morris collection. Use of forensic resolutions, true colour and high bit depths in the capture process (2400ppi true optical/RGB 48bit) allowed us to pick out what we think are some singularly remarkable hand painted slides (slides that [...]