I started today by scanning a few negatives of a football game and a football player for the Hall of Champions, another sports exhibit which is being installed on the Indiana University campus. This project will require images of all university sports rather than just basketball.I also continued working on going through the Photoservices contact sheets and transferring the information from the contact sheets to the negative envelopes in preparation for scanning these negatives and entering them into the new photographs database.
Today I worked on images of the construction of the Herman B. Wells Library. It was really interesting to see areas I walk through every day under construction! Here you can see a photograph taken on August 3rd, 1967 of a partially completed Main Library. This is a scan of the contact sheet. Once all the negatives have been scanned, the images added to the new photographs database, and the information entered into the database, these prints will no longer be needed except for exhibit purposes.
Nice shot! You've done a great job of updating us on what you are learning up there!
ReplyDeleteIt truly amazes me how many requests for photos we receive. It is without doubt the most heavily used collection in the Archives. I suspect that is the case in most university archives. Phil
ReplyDeleteThat is amazing! I like the various contact sheets for Beck Chapel too. They aren`t construction photos.. but they are beautiful.
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