School history, shared
Practical guides to digitizing, preserving, and sharing your school’s yearbooks.
Yearbook guide
Academic recognition programs represent one of the most powerful tools educational institutions have to motivate student achievement, reinforce educational values, and create cultures of excellence. When schools …
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School athletic archive daguerreotype intake is the conservator-informed pre-digitization assessment process that examines a suspected cased portrait associated with an early institutional or program figure — a school …
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School athletic archive salted paper photograph intake is the conservator-informed pre-digitization assessment process that examines a suspected early program portrait for the visual and physical characteristics …
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Athletic archive chromogenic color print fading intake is the pre-digitization assessment process that provisionally identifies color team photographs as likely chromogenic prints, documents visible dye fading and color …
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School athletic archive collodion photograph intake is the pre-digitization assessment process that examines a suspected wet-collodion glass negative or ambrotype from a school athletic archive for the visual and …
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Athletic archive cyanotype photograph intake is the pre-digitization assessment process that examines possible historic school team photographs for the visual and physical characteristics associated with the cyanotype …
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Athletic archive albumen photograph cracking intake is the pre-digitization assessment process that examines possible historic school team portraits — mounted or unmounted albumen silver prints — for the condition of …
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Athletic archive microfilm redox blemish inspection is the pre-digitization assessment process that examines rolls of silver-gelatin microfilm — containing school sports newspapers, athletic programs, and award lists — …
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Athletic archive reticulation inspection is the pre-scanning assessment process that examines historic school team photo negatives for pre-existing reticulation — a permanent, network-like wrinkling of the gelatin …
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Athletic archive ferrotyping inspection is the pre-scanning assessment process that examines historic school team photo negatives for emulsion adhesion and surface deformation — conditions where the gelatin emulsion has …
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Athletic archive film curl inspection before digitization is the pre-scan assessment process that examines each reel of historic game film for longitudinal and transverse curl — geometric deformation of the film strip …
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The athletic archive time base correction workflow is the digitization step where the mechanically unstable sync signal produced by spinning tape heads is resynchronized against a stable crystal-clock reference before …
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Athletic archive film perforation damage inspection is the pre-scanning assessment process that examines every perforation — the precisely sized holes punched along the edge or edges of 16mm, Super 8, and Regular 8mm …
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Before you press play on any VHS tape containing historic school athletic footage, inspect the cassette shell. A ten-minute visual check — no tools required, no disassembly — tells you whether a tape is safe to run …
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Athletic archive videotape leader inspection is the pre-digitization assessment that examines the non-magnetic leader tape at the beginning and end of each legacy game cassette — verifying that the leader is present and …
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Athletic archive VHS mold quarantine is the process of visually and olfactorily inspecting legacy game cassettes for fungal growth, physically isolating any suspect tapes from the rest of the collection before playback …
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Athletic archive videotape splice inspection is the pre-digitization assessment process that locates every adhesive splice in a legacy game cassette, evaluates the structural integrity of the splicing tape and the tape …
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The athletic archive VHS capstan-speed check is the pre-digitization inspection process that confirms whether a legacy game cassette was recorded at Standard Play, Long Play, or Extended Play speed, verifies that the …
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Athletic archive videotape edge-damage inspection is the pre-digitization assessment process that identifies whether the physical margins of a legacy game cassette’s tape strand show signs of frilling, curling, …
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If your school’s storage closets hold VHS cassettes, U-matic tapes, or open-reel reels recorded between the 1970s and the 1990s, some of those game films are actively deteriorating—even while untouched. …
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