Each year the Center for Civil War Photography chooses one volunteer for the Volunteer of the Year Award. The award is presented to the recipient at the Annual Image of War Seminar.
CCWP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and depends on volunteers to fulfill its mission. If you are interested in volunteering for the Center for Civil War Photography, please send an email to Executive Director Jennifer Kon at jkon{-at-}civilwarphotography.org
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Tom Danninger won the 2009 Volunteer of the Year award for his help on several projects, most notably his creation of a program that automatically matched 1,100+ captions and images during CCWP’s upload of postwar Gettysburg photos to Yahoo’s photo sharing site, Flickr. Tom’s interest in Gettysburg began when he took his wife there on their honeymoon in 1970. Since then he has spent 39 years developing software; most of that time with IBM. He lives in Cary, NC with his wife and enjoys finding ways of combining the Civil War, mapping, photography and software.
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When he’s not breaking new ground on his own in Civil War photography, John Kelley often can be found working on behalf of the Center for Civil War Photography on one of its many projects. In addition to his contributions to this newsletter, and his lecture at the 2004 Image of War seminar, John has been an essential volunteer with the CCWP Digital Archive Project and other efforts. John and his wife, Norma, have been CCWP members since 2003 and have been at every seminar since 2004. John received a Master’s Degree in American History from the University of Bridgeport in 1970, but his “deep love for Civil War photography” was set in motion in 1978 after purchasing Francis T. Miller’s 10-volume Photographic History of the Civil War. John recalls, “I focused on the photography of Captain Andrew J Russell in the Fredericksburg area and George N. Barnard’s images of Atlanta. In those days, I would visit such places as the West Point Library, the Photographic Library in Rochester, the Onondaga Historical Society, and I corresponded with William Frassanito and William C. Davis.” Among other discoveries, John found the stereo viewer in the middle of the photograph of Atlanta by George N. Barnard—a discovery featured in the CCWP newsletter—and was the first to put together the five-image Fredericksburg at War panorama featured at the Beyond Brady exhibition. He has recently completed a comprehensive PowerPoint program on his many years of study of the Civil War photographs of Atlanta.
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