The author campaigned to make USDA Pomological Watercolors freely accessible after discovering over 7,000 digitized fruit paintings behind a paywall.
After a successful FOIA request, the National Agricultural Library released high-resolution scans online.
The author created Python scripts and a bot to upload images to Wikimedia Commons and share them on social media.
The project spurred various creative outputs, including talks, visualizations, dataset contributions, and merchandise like pinback buttons.
Over the decade, the collection inspired books, prints, academic studies, and media coverage, and continues to be used and appreciated.
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