Summer week 2

 

This week was used to both redo the banners (yet again) and preview the other materials that were borrowed from Howard before the school all but shut down for construction over the summer. I met with Mike Shier from the CHDR and went over how to manually do the Photoshop combining of banners, the first thing that was apparently is that the algorithm failed to produce a combined images likely because the images couldn’t be aligned i.e manually moving the  images until things lined up still resulted in another part of the image not lining up.  Mike then suggested redoing the images so that there are four takes of the banner instead of the 16 or so that we redid last week, this gives less points of potential failure; after all redoing four images is far easier than redoing 16. However this may come at a slight cost, that being the DPI; the capture one scanner at full height can’t fails to focus when trying a DPI at the 600 minimum that Dublin core wants for the TIFF files so weather this is acceptable remains to be seen.


img.1 Attempted manual attempt at combining images, see the right side letters and left side edge near the bottom for some of the issues that came with trying to redo these images.

The other part of the week was meeting with Dr.French and Kesley looking over the materials.  The oldest scrapbook is by far the most interesting item, but it also appears to be far more personal than the other scrapbooks.  This included things like locks of hair and small cards with individual names on them (Dr.French informed us that this was common in I believe parents generation), small moments or other misc. items related to Howard, or as it was in the late 40’s  Orlando Senior High School.  By far the most interesting items though were the school news papers, something that at the time could not have been cheap for a school to produce in numbers for all it’s students, but also begs the question if there’s any other issues out there somewhere at Howard, and if these are complete issues or if there are pages missing. 



 


Img 2. OSHS School News paper, img credit Dr.Scott French 5/23/24


Other items included things that were related to places in the school or events/places that students went too, such as two tickets to Sanlando Springs tropical park or a New Smyrna Beach “dividend day” prize ticket.  In another scrapbook however we found something more interesting than these items, the then school historian  explaining how they were keeping these items going between school historians, why they were keeping them, unfortunately we did not find a standardized list of how they decide what items go in the scrapbook or how they should be displayed in the books. However this also raises a question, is this 19476-1950 scrapbook the first one? Thes instructions don’t seem like a first “generation” project,  they seem to be arguably already decided on as “this is how these have been and will be handled”, at least from what I can recall I will admit my cursive reading is not that great. 

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