We are a family of amateur photographers: grandfather, father and daughter. Now that three generations of pictures are together under one roof, I noticed that dad and grandpa (particularly grandpa) liked to store their slides in those trays that could be fed through a slide projector. One roll of 24 or 36 slides takes up a significant amount of space in one of those trays. We have dozens and dozens of trays.
So I purchased a couple of archivally safe slide storage systems to move some of the slides into, came up with an organizational scheme and began moving slides. In just a short time here's what happened:
Here's what's left to be "containerized" into a more space friendly, archivally safe storage situation:
As you can see there are a lot of trays and the burgundy container, the two tone brown case, and the gray case also contain slide trays. The two blue boxes in the upper right corner are the slides that are already done. So there will be a lot of space freed up just by changing the housing for this portion of the family slide collection. Even more will be free once some culling has taken place. We could really have some family fun by pulling out one of the old slide projectors, looking at pictures and sorting at the same time...
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As always, interesting to watch your progress.
ReplyDeleteI too have hundreds, perhaps thousands of slides that need to be gone through to chose that are worth copying digitally.
ReplyDeleteFor now, I have the space to store them. For some time periods, few regular photographs were taken so I need to see what there is in my father's collection.