• 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021
• Watch on Zoom (expires Oct. 12, 2021); https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/mbTHucfv0UeXt1N5s58iB9voFyG2bwFAUypn6Cged9EevCLb8G-Pd4q8Ddivc1vk.nMy1uoRrZjoe9zbA 
• Panoramic Photographs at the National Archives and Records Administration and Hidden Treasure: Uncovering Panoramic Photographs of Alaska Territory, presented by Richard Schneider.

Richard Schneider is a records analyst in the preservation division of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) headquartered in College Park, Maryland and Washington, D.C. His presentation will discuss:

• What is NARA?
• Record Groups
• Still Picture Holdings
• NARA records related to panoramas (cartographic, textual such as patent drawings)
• How panoramic photographs are made
• Assembled digital and negative
• Slit-scan
• Wide-format
• Still picture panoramas
• Panoramas hiding in plain sight
• Hoffmann glass negatives
• How to research online and on site
• Selection of digital panoramas

View Schneider’s curated exhibit Hidden Treasure: Uncovering Panoramic Photographs of Alaska Territory.

Schneider previously was editor of the Journal of the International Association of Panoramic Photographers and with Trans-Ocean Photos, Inc. He is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and Skidmore College.