For my capstone project, I processed and created finding aids for five visual materials collections from UW Special Collections. As a result of this project, materials that were previously inaccessible to researchers are now contextualized and fully searchable through Archives West and UW Digital Collections. Multiple steps had to be taken in order to make the materials accessible: researching and arranging materials, housing materials in appropriate archival housings, encoding materials using the XML publishing program XMetaL Author, scanning images and creating digital surrogates, and revising finding aids based on the feedback of UW’s Visual Materials Curator Nicolette Bromberg.