Visualizing the 19th Century Mexican Political Sphere

My project entails working with the Genaro Garcia Photograph Collection to create a digital collection and a social network visualization of photographed 19th Century Mexican politicians. I incorporated a theoretical framework through weekly readings and tours in order to digitize photographs and to create the social network visualization using best practices and current standards. The phases of this project included digitization, describing photographs through metadata, developing the underlying datasets needed to create a social network visualization using Gephi, researching manuscript and printed holdings created by or about photographed individuals to link collection materials, and "bagging" procedures.