Postcards from the Past: Continued Digitization of the Robert Runyon Photograph Collection

The Briscoe Center for American History is the archival home of the Robert Runyon photograph collection. Runyon took many photographs of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Mexico, which were sold as postcards in the early 20th century. Over the course of the semester, I took responsibility for the processing and digitizing of two collections of these postcards that had recently been donated to the Briscoe Center. This included categorizing, writing item-level metadata, and digitally capturing the postcards to increase accessibility. Finally, I created a guide detailing my process, to assist with future integration of donations to existing collections.