Educational Resources

Here are educational lesson plans created by the 1World1Family team:

Preserving a Tintype as a Photograph: How to convert a Tintype to a Photograph
Tintypes, or ferrotypes, were a popular form of photography from 1855 to about 1900. If you have a tintype, you should make a copy to display so the original can be kept safely stored. This is an easy way to preserve your family’s memories for years to come. In her eHow article, Ms. Fowler elaborates on two easy methods of converting your tintype to a photograph: either scanning the tintype or photographing it.
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DC Public Library (DCPL) Memory Lab: Preservation of personal archives and histories
People can digitize their old home movies, floppies, and photographs at the personal archiving lab, DC Public Library Memory Lab. Their goal is preservation of personal archives and histories for self-knowledge, the education of future generations, and creative reuse.
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Turning Strangers into Family: Create your own family archive
An interdisciplinary course that Thomas Allen Harris is teaching in the Yale School of Art entitled “Strategies of Visual Memoir in Art Practice”, a studio-based class that explores the use of archives in constructing real and fictive narratives across a variety of disciplines. This class coincides with an  exhibition designed to encourage people to engage with their own family photographic archives – a central focus and the mission of DDFR.
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