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Austin Allison

Welcome to my personal website! You may swipe or click your way through this digital ledger by swiping left or right or by using the navigation controls below. Each page contains a brief description of my work, including my academic research, photography, and current projects.

Cataloging, Preserving, and Capturing the History of the American West

Specializing in structural metadata schemas, digital preservation, and the physical cataloging of regionally important items, this workspace highlights my academic work alongside my photographic studies of regional landscapes of Texas and the American West.

Curriculum Vitae

Series I - III

Visual Monographs of the American West

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

Galleries

Eroded red clay and rugged canyon formations, Toole County, Montana — Little Jerusalem, Toole County, Montana

Current Work

Open-source optical character recognition software for newspaper digitization

Using open-source optical character recognition software to enhance newspaper digitization efforts in West Texas.

The Project

Featured Publication

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

Panhandle-Plains Historical Review • 2025

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Vaughan Land Company development archival photo

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