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and 8x10 prints one to a page per side. Filing them numerically
by photo number would have been more logical, but would have
required more pages.
My method saved money but meant that finding a particular
photo was more difficult, since the pages in each binder weren’t
in numerical order. Partly as a result of this decision, my col-
lection of binders grew to its current collection of 14 three-inch
binders. Finding a photo within sections where there might be
200 or more photos, all out of order, could be frustrating.
Even so, this basic system has served me well for the past 30+
years as my collection has grown to over 3,000 historic photos.
Surprisingly, I still have a pretty good recollection of all these
photos, but have still occasionally purchased a “new” photo,
only to later find that I already have a copy of it.
I initially set up a computer database to keep track of the
date and photographer of each photograph, but I have since
3. This is a portion of the Excel spreadsheet showing the information I
track for each photograph when known. The heading “Primary Field”
is due to importing the same information from an earlier database.
