Digitization of the Mission Espiritu Santo Collection

The Mission Espiritu Santo Collection (state site number 41GD1) both an archival and artifact collection from this third location of the Mission in the town of Goliad, Texas. The archival materials contain photographs of artifacts, a complete survey report from the 1933 A.T. Jackson excavation, the Human Osteology Project, and a daily journal from R.E. Beard. These materials are held at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory. The materials in this collection help to illuminate what daily life was like for the Spanish and native inhabitants living in the Mission Espiritu Santo three centuries ago. I am digitizing the collection by scanning the documents and creating a workflow for performing inventory on them in order to make them accessible off-site to a wider academic audience.