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We've got hearts of stone here at ACOR..or rather pictures of heart shaped stones from Roman(tic) times... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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ACOR has a new exhibition on display through February 18, 2020! The pop-up exhibition is entitled "Picturing Change: The Role of Photographs in Cultural Heritage" and opened last night at the public lecture ACOR Photo Archive: Mobilizing Digital Tools to Preserve Visual Heritage.

The display brings together 27 photos across eight archival collections, offering viewers a curated glimpse of the more than 25,000 images currently available online on the ACOR Photo Archive. "Picturing Change" is available for viewing during normal ACOR opening hours (8–4 Sunday–Thursday and 9–4 Saturdays) until next Wednesday, February 18. We hope you will join us to learn about the many stories contained within these rich archival photographs.
To read more about the ACOR Photo Archive, check out the link in bio.
Photo credit: Barbara A. Porter. @barbara.a.porter.31
Thanks to @ashleylumb @jessie_herland
@greenjdm @eslam_dawodieh @razan23ahmad @samyakafafi

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ACOR Project Archivist Ashley Lumb @ashleylumb recently completed the digitization of Bert de Vries's archive, which is now online, and she caught up with him to talk about the content of his photos.
The link to this interview with Bert is in our bio.
1 /4 Flora from Khirbet Salameh, 1988-1991
2 / 4 Joe Greene in Cultural Resource Management office, 1988-1991
3 / 4 Doorway to the sky at Umm el-Jimal, 1988-1991
4 / 4 Rami Khouri, President of Friends of Archaeology addressing friends at Numeira, 1988-1991
أنهت المؤرشفة آشلي لومب مؤخرًا رقمنة أرشيف بيرت دي فريز، و تمت إتاحته على الإنترنت. التقت آشلي ببيرت و أجرت معه حواراً شيقاً حول محتوى صوره.
1 / 4 "النبيت" الحياة النباتية في منطقة خربة سلامة، 1988-1991.
2 / 4 جو غرين في مكتب إدارة الموارد الثقافية، 1988-1991.
3 / 4 صورة لبوابة في موقع أم الجمال الأثري، 1988-1991.
4 / 4 رامي خوري، رئيس جمعية أصدقاء الآثار يخاطب مجموعة من الأصدقاء في موقع نميرة، 1988-1991

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Linda K. Jacobs, the author, anthropologist and archaeologist famous for her history of the Syrian colony of New York, donated some of her 35m Kodakchrome color slide collection to ACOR. The collection includes images of #Jordan and #Syria from the 1980s. Jacobs’ anthropological interest is clear to see throughout the photos in her collection which features the human side of many works of outstanding cultural heritage, as well as scenes from daily life and the architecture of rural Jordan and Syria.
Image 1: House within rock formation at #Beidha (also known as #LittlePetra or often spelled #Bayda), near to #Petra, #Jordan in 1982.
Image 2: Group of men laughing at the Ain Al-Assad (Lion Spring) excavations in #Azraq, Jordan in 1980.
Image 3: Man pausing to smile at the camera whilst hard at work on the North Theater excavation at #Jerash, Jordan in 1982.
Image 4: Distinctive conical houses (background) and bread ovens (foreground) near Tell Mardikh village (also known as Ebla) in Syria in 1982.
Image 5: Families gather at Qalat Siman / The Church of St. Simeon Stylites in Syria in 1982.
Browse the collection via link in bio.

Thanks to @razan23ahmad @samyakafafi and @jessie_herland for their work making this collection public

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Pictured here is the early #bronzeage settlement of Khirbet ez-Zeraqon, located just northeast of #Irbid in #Jordan.
Khirbet ez-Zeraqon was first identified by Siegfried Mittmann in the early 60s. It was considered a major #urban center during this period and was populated until the end of the third #millennium B.C.E.
Khirbet ez-Zeraqon was enclosed by a fortified wall and these enclosures were visible even before #excavations began in the 70s which continued until 1994.

Pictured in the 2nd photo are Professor Moawiyah Ibrahim, a Jordanian expert in #archaeology and #heritage and ACOR Board Member since 2006; former University of Arizona archaeology professor William Dever; and archaeologist Anne Ogilvy who served on ACOR’s Board of Trustee’s from 1986 until 2000.
Photos from the Bert De Vries collection at ACOR, 1988-90.

Thanks to Project Archivist @ashleylumb for writing this caption and choosing these images from the newly #digitized collection.

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Have you used the ACOR Photo Archive?
We want your thoughts! Whether you are a student, a professor, a visual artist or a cultural heritage professional; we want to hear from you.

If you are a regular user, or even today is your first time browsing the archive, please take our 4-minute survey about your experience. Link in bio.
Pictured here: Professors from the @caorc_council seminar "Sustainability at the Margins" explore the ACOR Photo Archive on Monday @portlandcommcollege @calstateuniversity @mesacc @tmccnevada @navajotechu

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2019 was a landmark year for the ACOR Library and Archives team. This calendar year, ACOR digitized 10,000 images, and over 24,000 are now available for search and download online in the ACOR database.
The ACOR Library also expanded this year, adding hundreds of new titles, with special emphasis on open-access resources. The Library and Archive held skill-sharing events, co-hosting the 3rd Archival Methods Workshop with the National Library of Jordan in July and a Wikipedia edit-a-thon and training day in October.
We'd love to take a moment to shout out all of the great people who have made this possible this year - Carmen Al Ayoubi, Jack Green (@greenjdm), Barbara A. Porter (@barbara.a.porter.31), Samya Khalaf Kafafi (@samyakafafi), Jessica Holland (@jessieherland), Razan Ahmad (@razan23ahmad), Hala Al Saqqa (@hala_saqqa), Rachael McGlensey, Eslam Al Dawodieh (@eslam_dawodieh), Ashley Lumb (@ashleylumb). Photos from our collections or by ACOR Team.

Happy 2020 🎉🕛📆🌃 to all of our followers - your support and appreciation keeps us going!
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As 2019 draws to a close, we have a few farewells to say, as well as celebrating the year's achievements.
So here we say goodbye & good luck to Project Archivist Rachael McGlensey, who has spent 10 months working on the ACOR Photo Archive.
In 2019, Rachael co-published 2,000 slides with item-level description and presented twice, first with Eslam al-Dawodieh ( @eslam_dawodieh ) on their work on the Paul and Nancy Lapp collection in July, and then with Razan Ahmad (@razan23ahmad) representing the ACOR Photo Archive at Madih workshop held by the British Institute Amman / CBRL (@bia_cbrl) in October.
Check out the link in bio for Rachael’s latest photo essay highlighting famous figures in Jordan from the 1950s – 1990s who appear in the Paul and Nancy Lapp collection.

We’re very grateful to Rachael for all her hard work, and here we share some photos of a year’s worth of archival activities including a workshop, a conference and a conservation question. Photos by Archive team members: @Ashleylumb, @Jessieherland and @Razan23ahmad and from the Paul and (4/4) Nancy Lapp collection: at Tell er-Rumeith, April 1967. R. Thomas Schaub (1933–2015) (at tripod) and workers surveying.

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