by Jordyn Baham (Visual Arts Major / Museum Studies Minor)

Jordyn Baham worked on digitizing a large collection of 19th and 20th century photographs from the Mahwah Museum. The photos documented several families, the Youngs, Morriss, Hagerman and Carlough families who lived in the Fardale and East Ramapo sections of Mahwah. She worked with cabinet cards, tintypes, and silver nitrate prints, scanning them, and cataloging them using the CatalogIt database. These images are publicly available on the Museum’s digital archive. Many of the photographs were identified on the reverse, but some required research to try to identify the person, and determine the likely date of the photograph based on the age of the subject, the clothing worn, and other clues found in the photos.