Identifying slides

An excellent story in a recent Sports Illustrated, Slide Show is an inside look at the magazine's catalogers at work. You can learn many things from the notes and codes found on the 35mm slide mount. Similiarly it can be good to think of this for other collections as well.

In some cases before upgrading temporary storage boxes to final quality archival boxes care may be taken to preserve the record of these temp box markings especially so if the labeling was made by the creator and is best evidence of original order. Quick reference photos of the old boxes can be saved for the archivists accession file during final processing.

A blue blue Hannon

I just happened to be near the Mondrians when I caught this sundowner light just right....no Photoshop and no Dave Hill...

Ann Richards & Stan Kenton at Loyola!

Still looking for more Rose Parade images I found a nice set of photo prints from a Stan Kenton Orchestra concert on campus in the Alumni Memorial Gym. Replacing June Christy as the Kenton vocalist, Ann Richards also becomes Kenton's wife. He is paying keen attention to his new singer on campus at Loyola in 1955.

Loyola Band in the snow

While looking for evidence of LU at the Pasadena Rose Parade the archivist stumbled across this of the Loyola Band playing in California snow in the late Thirties.

Newest view of Hannon Library

It won't be long now. Only have four months left for University Archives in the Von der Ahe Library. The St. Vincent's College and Marymount School & College record series are boxed and ready to go!

Naomi kisses a giraffe

This is a little off topic but for those of you who remember former Head Cataloger Naomi Zahavi this from her recent travel through Africa.

Hannon Feb 2009

Here's a new one from our colleague Jim Beardsley from the Leavey-Marymounters.