{"id":4796,"date":"2018-05-11T16:20:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/CuratorsCorner\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2018-05-14T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:21:19","slug":"cataloguing-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/2018\/05\/11\/cataloguing-photographs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cataloguing Photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When the FRHS is closed for the season, we habitually get quite a bit of work done, without the day-to-day interruptions that come when the museum is open to the public. The past several weeks have been spent working with a substantial collection of photographic material, in preparation for re-cataloguing, using a format that conforms to the latest museum standards, with up-to-date nomenclature.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This will make it considerably easier to manage and effectively search the collection \u2013 currently a time-consuming process \u2013 thereby making material more easily accessible to staff and patrons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The collection of images held by the FRHS is extensive, dating from the dawn of photography through the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century \u2026 and there is some great material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I find occupational photographs particularly interesting \u2013 done outside the studio, they depict the gritty, day-to-day reality that was experienced by the vast majority of Fall River\u2019s population. They are uncommon, their number far outweighed by more traditional \u201cposed\u201d images.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This photograph shows the repair shop of the Mechanic\u2019s Mill on Davol Street; it was taken by an unidentified photographer, c.1915; the man standing at the back wearing overalls, the only one identified, is William Squire (1850-1937), a carpenter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fall River \u2013 as it was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Carpenter.jpg\" rel='prettyPhoto'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4797\" src=\"https:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Carpenter-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Carpenter-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Carpenter-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Carpenter-1024x853.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Carpenter-860x716.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the FRHS is closed for the season, we habitually get quite a bit of work done, without the day-to-day interruptions that come when the museum is open to the public. The past several weeks have been spent working with a substantial collection of photographic material, in preparation for re-cataloguing, using a format that conforms &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[42,45,43,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4868,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions\/4868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}