The Mariners' Museum and Park

The Mariners’ Museum will catalog and digitize over 30,000 photographic negatives from seven collections. The collections document the histories of transport via waterway, shipbuilding, the U.S. Navy, and maritime commerce in coastal Virginia, including collections of Edwin Tappan Adney, who documented Indigenous bark canoe traditions, and of Newport News Shipbuilding, which still builds aircraft carriers and submarines. The museum will hire a digitization specialist to work with a paid photography intern to digitize and store collections at risk of deterioration. Lastly, staff will make these images available online for the benefit of scholars, students, and the general public.