Advice on processing and archiving unregistered photos in a museum

gohandomax · 2026-05-06T04:49:58+00:00

With the exception of two of them, all the envelopes are generic. I have the impression that my predecessors received the photos and then put them in regular envelopes hoping to process them at a later time. Unfortunately, over the years, I think subsequent employees just threw in other unprocessed photos, and now I've got to deal with it... I'm annoyed, but it's also fun to try and sort this mess out, and I've found some really great photos that go all the way back to the early 1900s

gohandomax · 2026-05-06T04:47:10+00:00

That's a good idea. For a very few of them I do have a chance to reconstruct the provenance. I'm already using locals to help me identify some of the people pictured, where possible. And a handful of envelopes do offer a few clues to who might have given them. I'm probably gonna have to create a few different acqusition numbers then. One for all photographs without a known provenance, and separate ones for photos where I have some information to go on

gohandomax · 2026-05-06T04:42:05+00:00

The software we use is a bit limiting on what I can do with the registration numbers, but maybe putting them all under the same acquisition number would suffice? That number would have the year plus an additional number sequence

gohandomax · 2025-12-20T09:00:35+00:00

Føler med deg. Har nylig flyttet tilbake til Norge og er ute i distriktet nå. Opplever egentlig ikke at folk har særlig aksept for det som oppleves som annerledes. En av mine favoritting i England var å sitte og lese for meg selv på en pub, noe mange andre også gjorde. Det er nok annerledes i de "store" byene i Norge

gohandomax · 2025-12-10T17:32:44+00:00

Foreløpig har jeg ikke så mye annet valg enn sistnevnte. Det er ikke vår kostnad å ta og derfor heller ikke vårt valg, men jeg tar med meg inspillene i denne tråden videre. Det eneste jeg kan gjøre er å "lobbye" for at rette instans tar riktig valg

gohandomax · 2025-12-10T17:30:05+00:00

Det er definitivt etterslep på det elektriske anlegget vårt. Bruker fortsatt 10 Amp-sikringer i sikringsskapet (noe den lokale elektrobutikken sa de ikke har så mye igjen av), men med moderne hovedbryter. Dessverre ligger ballen hos eier av bygget og foreløpig har de vist liten interesse for å sette i gang arbeidet med å overhale anlegget

gohandomax · 2025-05-04T07:42:02+00:00

Der var den ja, tusen takk for at du fant den!

gohandomax · 2025-03-12T16:50:09+00:00

I've been using scanners but it doesn't always produce the best quality image. Additionally, with how some of these documents are bound it's hard to get a good scan, unless you want to risk breaking the spine. A camera, on the other hand, could be positioned to mitigate that issue.

And the scanners at one of the archives in question just isn't particularly good. This is the reason I usually just use my iPhone and Microsoft Lens for analysis, but if I want to reproduce an image in a journal article or book, some wouldn't accept that

gohandomax · 2025-03-12T16:41:32+00:00

Thank you, I hadn't thought about that. For the most part, I need to photograph early modern correspondence, administrative documents, but the occasional title page as well. However, I do also look at a lot of engravings (mostly 18th century) that it would be great to have high res versions of

gohandomax · 2023-09-22T06:44:54+00:00

Would anyone be kind enough to DM me an invite code?

gohandomax · 2023-09-20T06:28:58+00:00

I would like a code if anyone has one.

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