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Posted By David Cranston 01-30-2024 08:37
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Hi - I'm the Curator at our Historical Society in Eastern Upstate NY. We've been in operation since 1973 and only recently we decided to get Internet access and our first computer! All our Accession records are on paper in manila folders. We maintain a subject file (index cards) for our collection of ...
Posted By David Cranston 04-05-2020 16:40
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Thanks Susan. Your suggestion makes perfect sense. ------------------------------ David Cranston Curator Hadley-Lake Luzerne Historical Society Lake Luzerne NY (518) 696-4520 ------------------------------
Posted By David Cranston 04-04-2020 14:02
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During our accessioning of photos, I include the type of photo such as tintype, Daguerreotype, etc. I also make note of the colorant. As for the colorant, our former Curator only used color, B&W, and Sepia. If a photo had a very light blue tint she would label it as a color photo. Lately, I've used ...
Posted By David Cranston 04-04-2020 10:10
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Posted By David Cranston 01-23-2020 06:32
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Probably not what you want to hear, but I've had good luck with Command Strips. I use the ones that have Velcro. That way the strip on the wall does not have to be removed and reattached to the wall if I want to reposition (or change) the label. We attach our labels to small mats (the type used in a ...