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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Numbering photographs
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 10:18:14 -0700
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Lillian - For labeling the back of your pictures, I would recommend that you
use an archival quality gold metallic pen. Silver doesn't read very well
and pencil has a tendency to rub off. My husband is a fairly serious
photographer (recently won $500 in a competition) and is a fanatic about
organizing all of his photos, slides, and negatives. This is what he uses
extensively. With the popularity of scrapbooking, you should be able to
find one of these pens quite easily. I have seen them at Office Depot and
craft stores as well. Hubby uses Pilot Gold Markers. Just make sure they
have dried well before stacking another photo on top.

If you have proof sheets made from the negatives, then it is a simple matter
to keep the proof sheets in archival jackets in a notebook. You can keep
the negatives in archival negative sleeves immediately behind the proof
sheets and keep the photos in a separate manner (archival boxes with
indexes, sleeves, etc.). You could create a sheet to accompany each proof
sheet that identifies the photos in the manner you decide (family, location,
individual, or any combination thereof). You could tell at a glance what
the subject of each proof photo is. Then you could cross reference them in
a database (including your TMG), Clooz, Access, or even by using a plain old
table in your wordprocessor (you can use the sort feature to find and
cluster subjects).


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Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 6:51 PM
Subject: [TMG] Numbering photographs


> I have about 40 years of photographs, all in original store envelopes
> with negatives, and mostly undated/unlabeled. Although the pix thus far
seem
> to be in good condition, I am very concerned about preserving them
properly
> and want to put all of the pix and negatives in separate archival
> photo/negative sleeves. As I do this I want to number the pictures
(either
> in pencil on the back of the photo and/or on a label on the outside of the

> sleeve). I also hope to identify the people and give at least an
approximate
> date to each photo.
>
> Have any of you numbered your pix? I am very interested in knowing
what
> you have used for a numbering system and how well it has worked.
>
> I am contemplating using an Access database or CLOOZ for this. The
> advantage of CLOOZ is that I can easily link all of the people in each
> picture. The possible disadvantage is that I may be limited in the type of
> reports I can do.
>
> I want an easy numbering system. I want to be able to sort
> chronologically (even if I add pix out of order) or by people (i.e. easily
> locate all pictures of Aunt Maggie).
>
> I often want to be able to add pictures of people to my TMG reports,
but
> I am spending too much time trying to find the pictures that I need. A
good
> indexing system hopefully will let me organize (and preserve) all my pix
and
> have them readily available for my TMG reports.
>
> Lillian Cain
>

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