Monday through Friday during the day we go to the National Archives to photograph land records from early 1900's Nebraska. All of the records we camera capture are from cancelled or relinquished homestead entries. When we come into the research room a cart is waiting for us with boxes of records.
There are several file folders in each box; one for each homesteader. Here are the calibration tools we use before photographing each paper in the file.
When a box is complete we go back and evaluate the images and look for photos of fingers or shadows. We reshoot any that are not good. One box can contain between 500 and 1100 images.
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