April 23, 2007
Monday Antique Photos, Part 3.1
Because I've now have a back log of about 100 antique photos to post, I'm going to be putting up several every Monday rather than just one. I'm going to do separate posts so it's a tad less confusing. If only the things weren't so darn cheap (50 cents - 1 dollar on average) I wouldn't have collected so many. Grrrr... stupid pack-rat gene.
Anyway, now that I have a bunch, I really need to get proper supplies to store them so they won't be damaged. I'm thinking some acid free paper and an acid free storage box. Hopefully that will be cheap.
Just as a quick reminder, all of the photos are collected on my period photos page. This page also includes links to 300 dpi versions of the photos (suitable for printing!).
On a tangential note, I'm still trying to decide which of my period magazines I should scan next. I think I've narrowed it down to 6 or 7 of them by sorting them by length. I'd really rather do the thin ones first, since they will go faster and are easier to fold open. The reduced set of candidates still includes things from the 1860's up until the nineteen teens. I'm not sure if I want to go for a strategy of moving through time from one end or the other or just jump around randomly. I'm sort of leaning towards the nicest teens one right now, since it has some lovely Edwardian stuff in it including a bunch of photos of folks in Parisian fashions!
I'm debating doing some OCRing on my existing scans as well, since the 300 dpi pages have more than enough resolution for that. We'll see I guess. As much as I'd like to make the content available for folks who are sight impaired, I'm lazy and doing 70 pages of OCR checking sounds painful to me.
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