Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Today I went through some binders full of sports negatives that do not have contact sheets and have not been put in negative envelopes with the rest of the collection. Most of the images were from 1993, and I found a few team photographs I hadn't found in the main collection. I scanned these, as well.

I also went through all the media guides we have for women's basketball and tried to match up the team photographs in these guides with the images I had scanned in order to determine the academic year during which each team pictured had played. I was able to identify some of the photographs I had scanned, but there were many team photographs in the media guides which I had not found by going through the contact sheets. It may take a little more digging to find those images and to identify the team photographs which I have not been able to locate in a media guide.

One resource we may be able to use are the framed team photographs belonging to the athletics department. One of the people who works for athletics has photographed the team photos they have hanging on their walls and emailed these images to Brad. By checking these images against those I have scanned, we may be able to date more of the team photographs. So far we have identified one more photograph using this method.