MADISON, Wis. — The Center for Railroad Photography & Art has unveiled its online archive of digital images from the center’s expansive collection.
Odyssey, the CRP&A’s new online portal, is now available here. A downloadable search guide PDF is available here.
The image management system was selected by the CRP&A staff in June 2022, and in the intervening year the Center and the platform’s developers have worked to customize and implement the software. The Center has provided previews of the archive during this year’s “Conversations” event in Lake Forest, Ill., and a recent members-only online presentation.
“The Center’s archives and digitization efforts have grown tremendously over the past few years, and Odyssey’s large storage capacity limit offers opportunities for even further collection development,” Adrienne Evans, director of archives and collections., said in a CRP&A announcement. “We recently finished migrating all of our digital collections from Flickr to Odyssey and we’re excited to introduce everybody to the new portal. Being a new system, we’ll constantly make improvements as we expand the galleries to include more images from our growing collections.”
Scott Lothes, the Center’s president and executive director, said the organization was “excited to begin sharing more of our collections through Odyssey” following the lengthy search and development process.
“Our collections team has digitized tens of thousands of photographs in the past couple of years alone,” Lothes said. “We have so much to share with you.”
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— Updated June 30 at 5:50 p.m. with addition of link to downloadable search guide.
