Photogrammar is a digital humanities project featuring an interactive map that plots about 90,000 photographs from the the U.S. Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information photo archive, which documented American life during the Great Depression.
Humanities scholars are accustomed to closely studying novels, essays, archival records, and other sources. They question the material. They draw conclusions from it and wrestle with big ideas. Increasingly, they also wrestle with big data. Google has made more than 30 million books available online. Digitized runs of newspapers and magazines are available through subscription services. Art museums, such as the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery, are digitizing their collections, as are major libraries, including Yale's Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Library of Congress.
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