Showing posts with label Greek Community Collection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greek Community Collection. Show all posts

Monday, December 3, 2012

Greek Community Collection, Elaine Patton, 12/3/12

Today I was back in ContentDM polishing up/adding metadata for photos from the Greek Community Collection.
(MSS0199-0174) 1939 picnic photo,
including a guy holding out his bottle

Most photos did not have captions associated with them, which presented to me the typical challenge of succinctly describing a scene with no context while trying to avoid 'group portrait of people'-type descriptions. A couple of caption-less photos in this set, however, either had a duplicate already online or had a different view of the same scene that included descriptions I was able to copy over. In another one I was able to positively identify the fence near the tracks of Houston's Union Station thanks to an otherwise unrelated photo in the collection.