Monday, February 22, 2010

Today I finished going through all the sports contact sheets, which end in 1997. Once I had all the contact sheets that included photographs of IU women's basketball teams, I pulled the corresponding negative envelopes and began scanning them.

I am including in this post an image of a contact sheet like the ones I have been examining. These contact sheets reproduce the negatives in actual size, but as positive images. While these images are small, they are much easier to examine than the negatives and, unlike the negatives, they do not require careful handling since they are only reference prints.

This particular contact sheet shows a men's basketball game at Indiana University on February 5th, 1972 during which Indiana University played against Michigan State.

At the upper right corner, you can see the negative number. Both the contact sheets and the negative envelopes are arranged by these numbers.