Ex Libris

Austin Allison

Navigate this digital ledger by swiping or using the controls below. Each section provides a brief look into my academic research, photography, and ongoing historical projects. Explore further by clicking links throughout the page.

About Me

Capturing the Heritage of the South Plains, Texas, and the American West.

Exploring the intersection of library/archival science and regional heritage, this workspace highlights my academic research in history and digital preservation alongside photographic studies of the Texas South Plains and the broader American West.

Curriculum vitae

Series I - IV

Visual Monographs of the American West

This photography series captures various landscapes of Texas and the American West.

Galleries

A closer look at the remarkable rock spires and caprock formations lining Buckley Coulee near Sunburst, Montana. Sculpted over centuries by wind and water, these sandstone hoodoos stand guard right where the flat prairie plunges down into the valley floor. — Little Jerusalem Hoodoos · Toole County, Montana

Newspaper Digitization Enhancements

Open-source optical character recognition software for newspaper digitization

Using open-source optical character recognition software and enhanced image binarization and processing to strengthen newspaper digitization efforts in West Texas.

The Project

Featured Publication

'Opportunity Knocking': The Vaughan Land Company and Early Bailey County Development

Read the Full Text
All Publications

Vaughan Land Company development archival photo

.register-controls { display: none; } .catchword { display: none; } .spine { display: none; } .cover { display: none; } .back-cover-corner { display: none; } .leaves { background: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; padding-left: 0 !important; border-radius: 0 !important; } .leaves::before, .leaves::after { display: none; } .book-stage { margin-left: 0 !important; background: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-radius: 0 !important; } .book-stage::before { display: none; } .book-shell { padding: 0 !important; overflow: visible !important; border-radius: 0 !important; } .book { margin-left: 0 !important; background: none !important; box-shadow: none !important; border-radius: 0 !important; clip-path: none !important; filter: none !important; } .pages { position: static !important; overflow: visible !important; height: auto !important; } .leaf { position: static !important; opacity: 1 !important; transform: none !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(26, 25, 25, 0.09); padding: clamp(2rem, 4vw, 3rem) 0; } .leaf:last-of-type { border-bottom: 0; } /* .leaf-face--front/--back predate today's change (from the two-sided page-flip work) but were never accounted for here — without this, both faces stay position:absolute and climb to the nearest positioned ancestor once .leaf goes static, stacking every leaf's content on top of each other instead of flowing normally. Front becomes normal flow (so the header + body read top-to-bottom like a normal page); back is just hidden outright, since it only exists for the flip animation. */ .leaf-face--front { position: static !important; } .leaf-face--back { display: none !important; }