WHYY highlights the Fisher's crowd sourcing Ed Bacon Photo Project. For more about the project see below.
Before his passing in 2005, Edmund Bacon gave the Fisher Fine Arts Library his collection of 5k+ research and lecture slides, which he had accumulated over the course of his career as a city planner and educator. (Bacon served as an adjunct faculty member in urban planning for the Graduate School of Fine Arts throughout his career.) The collection features cities and sites from around the world but the majority are of Philadelphia. These slides, now digitized, offer a critical glimpse into Bacon's scholarly pursuits as well as the physical evolution of Philadelphia. Unfortunately, most of the slides are not identified or labeled, making it difficult to determine who or what is in the picture.
In an effort to make this important collection accessible, the Fisher Fine Arts Library has launched a crowd sourcing project, Ed Bacon Photo Project, through Flickr. Visitors to the site are encouraged to identify images or details within the images by tagging the images, commenting on the images, or sharing images of their own. Some images are easily identifiable and others are real mysteries. However, even the obvious images can be challenging when trying to identify buildings behind the photo's primary focus. Of the 5k, about a thousand are available in the Ed Bacon Photo Project.
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