Rachel Nordstrom

Heritage, photographic, museum, collections, festival person of many varieties; travel, canoe, diy, old-Volvo enthusiast; lived many places, settled in Scotland

[Historic Environment Scotland @HistEnvScot]

It’s #WDPD AND the 1-year anniversary of the one-millionth scan of the Directorate of Overseas Surveys project! 🥳

7 humans, 7 robots and over 1.5 million aerial photographs of the post-war Commonwealth. Find out what happened 👇

(What should we name our 7 robot friends? 🤖)

[Rachel Nordstrom @PhotoPreservX]

Wonderful when a banjo and some proper good-for-the-soul Americana music comes to the furthest most glorious corner of Fife #crailfolkclub @BrooksRedGuitar @danwalshbanjo

[DOS & ACIU Projects: Historic Aerial Photography @AerialSheila]

#Archive30 A #TypicalDay at the National Collection of Aerial Photography involves careful print & film preservation followed by lots of scanning, both by hand & by robot! #nationalcollectionofaerialphotography #exploreyourarchive @ARAScot #cobot #digitisation #aerialphotography

[DOS & ACIU Projects: Historic Aerial Photography @AerialSheila]

#archive30 #yourarchive The National Collection of Aerial is one of the largest collections of aerial imagery in the world, containing tens of millions of images featuring historic events and places around the world. #nationalcollectionofaerialphotography #exploreyourarchive

[DOS & ACIU Projects: Historic Aerial Photography @AerialSheila]

#Archive30 Here’s an unusual National Collection of Aerial Photography #ArchiveObject (rather than a print) a modern plot of a flight index made by laying out 100 Nile Valley survey prints from 1934
#nationalcollectionofaerialphotography #exploreyourarchive @ARAScot #Egypt #Nile

[DOS & ACIU Projects: Historic Aerial Photography @AerialSheila]

Here's another nice clearing shot, from March 1950 at Leuchars Airfield near St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. Taken by an RAF plane either before or after a sortie, it depicts airmen & a Supermarine Spitfire sitting on the runway. #clearingshot #NCAP #SupermarineSpitfire #spitfire

[DOS & ACIU Projects: Historic Aerial Photography @AerialSheila]

Our 3rd #ScottishArchivesDay image! This aerial view of St Andrews from 1946 clearly shows North, Market & South streets all leading to the ruined cathedral. This was from Operation Review, the #RAF's post-#WW2 national air survey of the UK. #StAndrews #aerialphotography #Fife

[DOS & ACIU Projects: Historic Aerial Photography @AerialSheila]

Today in unexpected avant-garde portraits in aerial photographs, how about this clearing shot of two airmen on the runway from September 1944 at RAF Benson in Oxfordshire, taken by 541 Squadron (RAF).
#clearingshot #aerialphotography #RAFBenson #RAF #NCAP #WW2 #SWW

[NCAP Mark @NCAPBD]

Here are some #anaglyphs made from stereo pairs in our Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS) collection.

We are nearly finished digitising this entire collection of 1.5 million aerial photos!

@londonstereo @NCAP_Archive @discoverhk #Jamaica #Kenya #Hongkong

[LothianHealthArchive @lhsaeul]

Photo of occupational therapy at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital - a patient makes clothes. c. 1960
#LHSAPhotographs

[Historic Environment Scotland @HistEnvScot]

Our project to digitise the DOS is pioneering stuff, both in terms of our approach (using robots to help us scan everything!) and because it's a large international partnership with implications for research on science, climate change and the legacy of colonialism. #EYAMapsPlans

[Historic Environment Scotland @HistEnvScot]

The photo is from the Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS), a unit set up by the British Colonial Office in 1946 to map countries in the manner of @OrdnanceSurvey.

Decades of aerial photography can now be compared & digitally merged with modern satellite imagery. #EYAMapsPlans

[Historic Environment Scotland @HistEnvScot]

Our NCAP archivists recently completed the one millionth successful scan in our state-of-the-art robotics suite. But what's that got to do w/ @explorearchives theme #EYAMapsPlans?

Well, the image in question is from a collection that has contributed to modern mapping technology!

[LothianHealthArchive @lhsaeul]

Photograph of lecture finishing in Anatomy Lecture Theatre.
Dr John Guy, c.1963
#LHSAPhotographs

[LothianHealthArchive @lhsaeul]

Photograph of students on circular staircase, Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital, Edinburgh.
Dr John Guy, c.1963.
#LHSAPhotographs

[LothianHealthArchive @lhsaeul]

Photograph of a hospital ward with a piano at the Royal Infirmary of #Edinburgh.
Dr John Guy, c.1963
#LHSAPhotographs

[LothianHealthArchive @lhsaeul]

Photograph of a lecture underway in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at the University of Edinburgh.
Dr John Guy, c.1963
#LHSAPhotographs

[LothianHealthArchive @lhsaeul]

Photograph of people in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre at the University of Edinburgh.
Dr John Guy, c.1963.
#LHSAPhotographs

[LothianHealthArchive @lhsaeul]

#Nurses from Public Health Department Hospitals in thanksgiving demonstration in Princes Street, Edinburgh on 13th May 1945.
#LHSAPhotographs

[LothianHealthArchive @lhsaeul]

In 1952 #Edinburgh staged another Health Week. During this time Edinburgh was experiencing a high incidence of tuberculosis. Therefore, the 1952 Health Week placed special emphasis on TB & the importance of regular mass X-ray examination.#LHSAPhotographs (1/10)