Comments on Shades Of The Departed: Labeling and Labeling Systems

Wonderful suggestions! In my work as Historian of ...

2010-04-19T17:52:55.078-07:00

Wonderful suggestions! In my work as Historian of the 50 Year Club, this method will be VERY helpful in identifying and labeling classmates from 1913 through today. Thanks so much! I can already see confusion in my choice of naming digital files of the scanned pictures. Your method should make things much easier.

I had to laugh when I read this. I recently found ...

2008-07-01T16:57:00.000-07:00

I had to laugh when I read this. I recently found a group picture of most of the ladies that lived on the street I grew up on. I scanned it, enlarged it and printed it. I took it to work to show a coworker that had grown up down the street. Her memory being better than mine she started rattling off names and gasped as I started writing names right on the print. She thought I was writing on the original. I wonder what my descendants will think if they come across that print and it is no longer with the original.

I still have to make a key for the original so I found your suggestions very timely.

Attaching a key (with reference photo, to boot!) t...

2008-06-26T07:48:00.000-07:00

Attaching a key (with reference photo, to boot!) to the back of framed photos is super clever. I also love your "K" naming convention for the digital key.

Brilliant!

Neat post-something to think about for anyone who ...

2008-06-26T05:54:00.000-07:00

Neat post-something to think about for anyone who collects and loves photos. I've seen a key like the NC Rep.photo before-where they wrote the numbers on their faces.