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Faces & Places of the Past
Clyde Day
with Johnson’s Creamery Delivery Wagon, circa 1930.
Photo donated by Clyde’s nephew Bob Colson, Sept. 2006.
Faces &
Places: A Community Archive Scanning Project
The Faces &
Places project is an initiative by the Monroe County Historical
Society to encourage the community to loan photographs to be scanned.
By scanning the photographs, one-of-a-kind pieces of our local history
are saved for future generations.
About Faces &
Places
Are you not
ready to let go of a treasured family heirloom?
You don’t have
to. Simply loan the photo and any accompanying material to the Monroe
County History Center. Trained volunteers and staff will scan your
photograph at a high resolution and return it back to you.
How to
Contribute to the Project:
1) Collect
photographs that depict families, homes, landmarks, special events, or
individuals.
2) Write down
any information that you may have about the photographs. This may
include but is not limited to: dates, locations, and names.
3) Bring your
photos and information to the History Center and fill out the simple
Faces & Places sheet.
4) The photos
will be scanned either immediately or during the next week. We will
notify you when your photographs are ready to pick up.
Through the
Faces & Places project, your photographs can be preserved. A digital
copy can not fade or suffer from water damage or other organic
hazards. The high resolution scan also offers a higher quality copy
then using a photocopier or low resolution scan.
Your photograph
can be preserved for the future generations of your own family as well
as for the rest of the community.
Faces
Proper
identification of an artifact is one of the most important and
sometimes one of the hardest tasks in historical preservation.
The Faces &
Places Project helps to overcome this problem by having the original
owner of a photograph contribute information about the persons
pictured.
By actively
seeking out information about contributed photographs, the Society
hopes to build a more complete historical record.
Places
Places change
and people forget. By contributing photographs of places, we are
ensuring a more comprehensive understanding about the businesses,
churches, government institutions, schools, and homes that have shaped
our local physical environment.
Old & New
The MCHS is
actively collecting items that serve to document Monroe County’s
history. This includes both older artifacts and newer pieces.
The Society is
dedicated to the preservation of all Monroe County history including
the history that is being made today.
Photographs of
significant current events make a perfect addition to the Faces &
Places Project.
Monroe County History Center
202 E. 6th St. • Bloomington, IN 47408
812-332-2517 • www.monroehistory.org
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