Photograph Collections

This website features many photograph collections. These collections are cataloged in order to provide attribution of the photography and to link to archival versions of the photographs which may be too large for internet presentation. The archival photographs have the same name except for a possible scale factor and different file type. Because these names are processed by batch files, use only lower case letters, do NOT use special characters like a question marks, and use only digits where a digit is expected, do not repeat the hyphen.

Photos are largely cataloged by their name as shown in:

date-prefix-number-description-scale.type

where date can be (using x as any digit 0-9):

• xxxx four-digit-year
• xxxx-xxxx range of four-digit-years
• xxxx-xx four-digit-year and two-digit-month
• xxxx-xx-xx four-digit-year, two-digit-month and two-digit-day
• 0000 four zeros for unknown year

prefix indicates a particular collection or series:

• Big Bend Railroad collection of Long Lake Dam construction photographs ['bbrr-' prefixed numbers].
• Terry Krupke collection of Long Lake Dam construction photographs ['llt']
• Otto Mahrt's collection of early Reardan photographs ['otto-']
• 1918 car, truck and tractor show ['auto-']
• Dan Plaster's photograph of Reardan and vicinity
  • Loose prints [inconsistent should be 'dan-print' or 'danp-', high water is 00590]
  • large 4"x5" negatives ['dan45-']
  • 35mm negatives ['dan-35mm-' should be shorted to 'dan35-'] the serial number is in three parts: box-roll-item where box is the box number, roll is a roll number within a box and item is an image within the roll (but not necessarily the frame number).
• Reardan Memorial Library [generally 'rml-', high water is 0347]
  • Beautification scrapbooks and photographs ['beautification-']
  • Clayton photograph collection ['clayton-']
  • Invitations ['beautification-' but should be something else]
  • Reardan Memorial Library as a subject ['memorial-library-']*
  • Mule Day and community celebrations ['mule-day-']*
  • Reardan pageants, princesses, queens and Miss Reardans ['royalty']*
• Reardan High School [rhs-]
  • 1959 Early History of Reardan (even though copy held by the Reardan Memorial Library) [rhs-ehr-]
• Lincoln County WA Historic Society ['lchs-']
• Spokane County Library ['scl-']
• WSU collections ['wsu-']
• Rural Washington Heritage ['rwh-']
• Northwest Museum of Art and Culture ['mac-']
• 1918 car, truck, and tractor show ['auto-']
• Kirk Carlson collection of heirloom and contemporary Plaster, Mahrt, Robinson and Reardan photos ['kirk-'] (high water mark is 0044).

number is a serial number of the image within the prefixed collection or a year within a prefixed collection. Derivatives, such as cropping, enhancing or identifying, of an image are indicated with a trailing letter.

description is a string of hyphen separated key words

scale is optional, as in:

• -1600 scaled to 1600px x 900px largely used to reduce the size of large scanned images (greater than 2 Mbytes)

type indicates the encoding of the image and is one of: (the archive may include special formats like .xcf that contain layer information for labeling, etc.)

• jpg jpeg photograph format
• png portable graphic format
• tif bitmaped graphic format