Harpers Ferry Center Collections
Interpretive media is our passion. Harpers Ferry Center (HFC) staff work with colleagues throughout the
National Park System to develop and produce digital media, films, historic furnishings, interpretive plans,
maps, museum exhibits, publications, signs, and wayside exhibits. This archive is a work in progress,
with digital content being added when possible. Here are some highlighted HFC collections.
Commissioned Art Collection: As part of our interpretive work,
HFC often contracts with artists to create works to help visitors understand the many stories parks tell.
The Commissioned Art Collection contains over 11,000 pieces of art purchased by HFC or produced by HFC staff for
park brochures, exhibits, films, posters, publications, and other projects.
Maps: Find an NPS map to plan your next park visit.
HFC-produced maps include park maps, landscape panoramas, cartographic diagrams, and more.
Nearly 1,000 maps, as well as map symbols and map templates, are free and available for download as
JPEGs, PDFs, or Adobe production files.
NPS History Collection: This collection preserves and shares the stories of the history,
culture, management, resources, challenges, and successes of the National Park Service.
The artifacts and records encompass the breadth and depth of the agency’s history and document parks and
their cultural and natural resources.
Park Unigrid Brochures: Find accessible digital versions of the official Unigrid brochures for national parks.
These brochures convey NPS identity, parks’ national significance, critical safety and stewardship information, and
a sense of relevance. They include custom maps, historical and modern photos, and original illustrations.
Brochures will be added to the collection as they are made fully accessible (508 compliant).
This archive is currently being updated with many of the collections in digital format at Hapers Ferry Center (HFC).
Collections will be available as processed.
About NPGallery
The NPGallery Digital Asset Management System is an enterprise system for storing,
organizing, and sharing photos and other digital files. NPGallery's central online repository offers
a place for the NPS to store digital assets, including photos, illustrations, audio files, videos,
and documents. The NPGallery platform lets parks and other programs easily store and organize all
of their digital files, and allows users access to easily find and retrieve specific files.
NPGallery is a premier solution for NPS parks and programs who have a need to manage and disseminate
large volumes of digital assets, with many people accessing and using those assets.
NPGallery supports a wide array of digital asset file types (images, MS office formats, adobe pdfs, audio files, videos).
Digital assets have control access to those files to ensure they are used properly.
NPGallery supports parks and programs with
digital asset hosting and delivery services.
Digital assets in the system can be provided for
public use, or locked for discovery only by internal NPS users.
NPGallery has terabytes of digital files of all types that are safely stored and quickly
retrievable for NPS business needs.
NPGallery provides a simple text search and search by state and park options,
or has the ability to “search more fields” for robust metadata searching.
Search results can be refined by filtering options.
NPGallery supports web services, support for embedded metadata, and integrated geospatial capabilities.
NPGallery also has a responsive user interface design, and the interface will gracefully
resize to match the size of the screen on your device, supporting mobile.
Web authors using the NPS.gov content management system(CMS) now use NPGallery as the
source for all photo galleries shown in the CMS.
Benefits of NPGallery to Parks & Programs
The NPGallery platform lets parks and other programs easily store and organize all of their digital files,
and allows users access to easily find and retrieve specific files.
These images and other digital assets have a direct URL link and can be used on program web pages.
Multiple file sizes of each digital asset are stored and available for use and download.
Contact the NPGallery staff to have us assist your park or program with your unique Digital Asset Management needs.
Email: NPGallery@nps.gov
NPGallery has continued working with individual parks and programs to create individual portals.
These semi-custom web pages allow NPS parks and programs to deliver digital assets from a
unique web page that highlights and shares photos, documents, audio files, and videos.
Searching the featured digital archive can be customized to help guide a user through discovering
the valuable digital assets unique to each park or program.