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In 1999, Angelina Oduro walked into a photo studio for a personal portrait. That private photograph is now available in photo frames, and as key holders, wall hangings and circulates as ephemera and permanent fixtures in homes, offices, and embassies in Ghana and abroad. More importantly, it has become a national icon and the de facto symbol of the storied “Ghanaian hospitality.” The relationship between the initial image and its current uses demonstrates how circulating visual objects shape public culture and national sentiment. Using iconographic tracking, a digital research method for tracking the transformation of images, this DH project will create a database and archive on Omeka to visualize how the image has been adapted and remixed over the years. The resulting webpage will provide valuable research data to expand my article manuscript on the same subject and an upcoming book project, and serve as a pedagogical tool for other DH visual rhetoric projects.