29 June

I returned to Campus Photographs this morning, first by completing the list of people who appear as subjects in the Campus Photographs collection, and then by incorporating that list into the full Subject List (which I will upload to googledocs tomorrow). 

Then I continued down the line again, researching as needed - for example, I found a couple of photos of the 1988 WU radio program, so I learned that they were called KWU. However, I do not know if they are at all related to the contemporary WU Wire.

28 June

As the Campus Photographs project gets larger and larger, there are more and more subjects to account for, besides buildings alone. I felt the need to document the subjects that I am using thus far, so I did - this list includes places and events. Then I started adding people, and I am still in this process because I have to keep the people on the master list and in a separate list of their own. The Personal Name list will eventually document all identifiable people in the campus photographs collection, along with any information I have of them and the WP #'s that they appear in. This way, we'll be able to focus on less well-identified subjects and do targeted research on those photos in particular.

In addition to this project, I continued working down the list, getting to almost WP 1400. I also did some research in the attempt to discover what "Chapel March/Spectacle Day" was, but, though I found the photo for it in the 1920 Wallulah, there was little information or even reference to the photo as "Chapel March/Spectacle Day."

27 June

I started with Campus Photographs today and quickly ran into a couple of research questions - why was there a plaque for FH Grubbs stuck in a maple tree outside of Eaton Hall (thanks, Chanel!)? And what was the Chresto Cottage (thanks, Mary!)? In other words, when I wasn't working on campus photographs this morning, I was reading 1916-1922 Wallulahs for information about the Chrestomatheans and Chrestophilians. I also added a few new building names to the list - of course, Chresto Cottage, but also, Chemawa Indian School, the Oregon Mission Manual School, and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art. I am still not sure how to label the Admissions Office, though. Would it be "Chi Omega Sorority House (Eastern side) -> W.I.S.H.: Willamette International Studies House (Eastern side) -> Office of Admissions"?

26 June

I believe I forgot to write a blog yesterday, so I will summarize my Monday and Tuesday here.

I have continued work on the Campus Photographs. I am now almost to WP 1200. In order to make it this far, I have had to do more research in the past couple of days, including reading about the history of the Victory Bell and learning more about Glee and certain practices surrounding those competitions! 

A big project this afternoon was working on the building names list. You will see that I have uploaded and shared this updated document on googledocs (Sara, Mary, and Rose Marie - if anyone else wants to see, I can certainly add you!). My edits reflect my attempts, thus far, to standardize the subject titles in the campus photograph collection. A couple of the subjects, such as the Antoinette and Mark O Hatfield Fountain and Hudson Hall, have not yet come up in the campus photograph collection, but I suspect they will soon enough.

June 22

Today, I returned to work on the Campus Photographs and I am now on photo WP0892. For a short period, I helped Cherri Miles to find photographs of the Collins Legal Center for the upcoming celebration in honor of Richard Breen/Brene (?). She didn't find any photos of him, but I did send her some jpegs of Collins Legal Center that she requested.

I also found a really interesting collection of 39 photographs of Salem and Willamette between 1800 and 1940. They were all apparently kept in the same folder and they seem to have been worked on by some other archivists at some point, as they are all captioned. One caption might give away the time period when the photos were worked on - for a photo of the Reed Opera House, the caption says "This is Reed's Opera house in 1888. It is now Miller's Dept Store." So I need to research and find out when the Reed Opera House was known as Miller's Department Store. By the way, this is WP0871.

21 June

I followed your advice, Sara, and spent today on the Campus
Photographs. I've gone through Eaton, Doney, the Fine Arts Building,
the Navy Training Graduation photos (August 14 1944!), the Mill
Stream, and the Putnam UC, among others. I learned that the UC used to
have those massive stairs and the spiral staircase till only a couple
of decades ago, and, (maybe) that the Bishop Health Center used to be
located where Rogers Music Hall is now, so they must have torn down
the entire building to put up the new one! I'm now at Campus Photo
#701 and I will be starting right back to it in the morning!

20 June

I continued working on the campus photographs this morning until Mary
asked me to burn a couple of CD's of photographs of Norma Paulus. I
also met Jennifer Paulus earlier and we talked for a minute about the
Paulus project, which I returned to in the afternoon.

I got confused after lunch. I started my next step with the Paulus
collection, that is, I started uploading new photos via Project
Client. First, I was really confused because a button wasn't working
and I thought I didn't have access, but really I just hadn't entered
the Project page so I couldn't add or edit anything within the project
yet. This took me a bit of time, and once I got past it I ran into
more small problems. I learned a good process for adding photos, and I
have approved a few photos online. However, I do not have access to
delete any photos...and I need to because I messed one up and uploaded
it twice. Tomorrow, I'll ask Bill for authorization to delete files.

18-19 June 2012

I forgot to write a blog for yesterday, but I did the same things as I
did today!

I began my morning with the Campus Photographs collection. I am now
somewhere near WP0350, so I have looked at photographs of GSM, Collins
Legal Center, Collins Science Center, Doney Hall, and Eaton Hall.

In the afternoon, I continued with Paulus. In the past two days, I
have written a list of all of the names of Paulus's clients, that is,
those people who sat for his portraits and paid him so that he could
pay for his Willamette education. I wrote this list and then rewrote
it, and then rewrote it again today. Once I made sure that the list 1)
was alphabetical, 2) did not repeat itself, 3) had no typos, and 4)
accurately reflected what was written on the actually slides or in the
Ted Paulus interview, I then synced my list with the one online. After
that, I updated the column for "Personal Names" in the googledoc sheet
so the names of all of the Paulus clients would be uploaded as search
terms, once they are uploaded via Project Client.

15 June

This morning, I finished scanning the 1915 Wallulah and filled out its
info in the excel worksheet. I then abandoned the scanner and started
working on Campus Photographs - I think I was able to make it through
about twenty of them before lunch.

After lunch, I made sure that all of the information on the Paulus
Collection was in the spreadsheet. Then I started updating a Paulus
publication that listed the client names and the photos that they are
found in. I know that Roger Hull, an art professor in the 90's, had
made the list in order to 1) more easily find clients who appear in
more than one photo and 2) be able to contact potential family members
in the Salem area and mail them copies of all photos that their family
members may be in.

14 June

I started the 1915 yearbook today and was able to scan ~80 pages. I
also spoke with Alice, who had fixed the page in the 1914, which I
then scanned. She then took the 1914 to fix it up a bit before
returning it to stacks.

In the afternoon, I finished cross-referencing the Paulus Collection,
with a total of 13 boxes. I am now uploading the data, which I
hand-wrote, into the excel worksheet. Once I am done with that, which
shouldn't take too long, I will be able to write a quick summary of
what is or is not missing.

13 June

I finished scanning the 1915 (pub. '14) this morning, but I have to
return to one page that felt out - a photograph fell off of the page
and then the page fell out of the book (fantastic!), so Alice is
fixing it. Once I get the page back, I can scan it in and input the
1915 into the excel worksheet.

After lunch, I finished cross-referencing the last of the PLS90's and
began the PLS98's. I then finished the first box of the PLS98's and
I'm almost done with the second box. When I finish that tomorrow, I'll
have to check with Mary - I can't remember if there's another box in
her office or not...in any case, I'm almost done cross-referencing the
Paulus collection...

12 June

This morning, I finished another good 70 pages of the 1915 Wallulah,
so I'm up around page130.

In the afternoon, I kept scanning some Paulus slides - there were
about twenty of them that had not been in the digital collection. I
also reorganized some slides that were misplaced and then continued
cross-referencing the digital and original collections.

11 June

I started today by returning to the 1915 Wallulah (published in 1914
by the '15 class) - I got to +/- page60. The work went pretty
smoothly, except for a hiccup where a page was ready to fall out and
the photograph that belonged on that page had fallen off, so I gave
the page and photograph to Alice so she could repair them. I'll get
that back and reattach it tomorrow, and then scan and save the page as
something like "Page# - Insert."

In the afternoon, RoseMarie asked me to help her with some of the
Waltz Family Papers, so I deleted a couple of doubled pages, scanned a
few more and moved some around to make everything accurate. I then
added these changes to the website through Project Client. Once I
finished working on the letters, I returned to the Paulus Collection
for the last 45 minutes. I am not quite done scanning box 7, but I
have finished cross-referencing the box.

It seems that we have a lot of missing slides, unless if I find them
hiding in a box somewhere. I haven't yet, and I am pretty sure I have
all of the boxes accounted for. I have descriptions for some of these
73 slides, so they must have existed at some point, but we seem to
have lost them. I'll continue cross-referencing and scanning tomorrow,
and hopefully those 73 will just be misplaced somewhere later in the
boxes!

8 June

A late blog, again - my goal for this week is to be better at blogging on time!

Friday morning, I finished the last of the 1913 yearbook that I was
working on. Till now, I've referred to it as the 1914, but it was
published in 1913 by the class of '14, which had confused me before.
In any case, I finished the '13 yearbook (published by the class of
'14) and I have now begun scanning the '14 (published by the class of
'15). I also checked the images and fixed inconsistencies in the '13
(the one I just finished), so it should be ready to be uploaded
online!

In the afternoon, I continued cross-referencing Paulus images until I
ran into a large group of photos that need to be scanned. There are at
least 40 images that were never digitized, so I'll be spending a lot
of this next week working on those. When I finish those ~40
photographs, I'll have to start a search for the next ~60, because
those ones either never existed, were lost, broken, or never accounted
for. In any case, I haven't seen them yet! So hopefully they turn up
somewhere (if they ever existed at all!)!

7 June

So I'm apparently really bad at remembering to write on my blog at the
end of my shift! I remembered late last night, so here I am doing it
in the morning!

Yesterday morning, I learned how to scan the Paulus glass plate
negatives. Then I worked more on the 1914 Wallulah until 11:30, when I
met with Sara and Mary to talk over plans for the next few weeks. Then
I returned to the Wallulah till lunch!

After lunch, I got back to Paulus and quickly found a group of three
plates, PLS90C189 - PLS90C191, that had not been scanned, so I put
them up online and edited one so that it wasn't blue-ish anymore. I
spent the rest of my shift going through the rest of box 10!

6 June

I started back with the 1914 Wallulah and got to ~page60.
Unfortunately, the pages come out badly if I don't hold the book down,
so I've had to take a break editing the 1912. Maybe I'll return to the
1912 once I finish '14.

In the afternoon, I went right to work on the Paulus collection - I'm
up in the PLS90C180's now, so I've done more than half of the
cross-referencing and I'm getting closer to the group of photos that
have been lost, never existed, were mis-numbered, or not scanned. I
will probably crack that puzzle sometime in the next week!

June 4

This morning, I started the 1914 Wallulah and got a good 55 pages in
while continuing my edits of the 1912. The 1912 seems to have some
problems - page31 was mis-numbered "page301" and another page, later
in the yearbook, had not been properly cropped. There were a couple of
pages missing, and consequently, the rest of the book needs to be
re-numbered. So I am working on that while scanning pages of the 1914;
it's taking some time reorganizing, but I'm making progress!

I returned again to cross-referencing the digital and original Paulus
collections. I'm now at +/- PLS90B100 and I decided to start noting,
on the printed page, which slides are large, small, or "small-long". I
should be done with Box 4 fairly quickly tomorrow afternoon.

P.S. ~ Thanks to Rose Marie for the cake and Joni for the cookie! They
were delicious!

1 June

This morning, I scanned the 1906-07 (combined) Wallulah and was able
to return it to the archives. While I worked on the 1906-07, I also
worked on the 1912, which I realized had mores on most of the photos.
I am still currently going through the 1912, blurring where necessary
- I think I'm on page 101, now, and I should be able to finish that
tomorrow. Also tomorrow, I'll begin scanning the 1913, which I already
have ready for me at the desk!

After lunch, I worked again on making sure that the Paulus digital
library matched the original collection. I found a couple small
discrepancies, such as when PLS90A299 and PLS90A300 had been switched
during scanning - I could rename the digital file to match the
original, or vice versa, but I don't know which method would have the
least impact on records. In any case, most every other slide is fine
and I am now a third of the way through Box 4/10.

31 May

This blog is coming a day late, but I still remember what I did!!

Yesterday morning, I finished scanning the 1905 Wallulah and then
retrieved the 1906-07 Wallulah from the archives, with Mary's help,
and scanned the cover page.

In the afternoon, I continued cross-referencing the Paulus digital and
original collections to make sure that they match. I am now halfway
through the second box of slides and I've only run across one problem,
where a slide had not been scanned because it was a duplicate of
PLS90A009. It made sense not to copy an exact duplicate, so I left it
alone. Later on, I found it interesting that the slides, which were
previously all of the same size, were all suddenly of a different
size. About 75% of the second box, in fact, are all on smaller glass
slides. I believe that these most likely came from a different camera,
and then I remembered that Robert and Otto Paulus did not own the same
style of camera, according to Ted Paulus. With a little research, I
may be able to find out which camera, and photographer, made the
smaller slides.