A Visit to the Archives
Photos, Photos, and More Photos! The Pingry Review has showcased Bynder, which houses the School’s digital photographs that have been taken over the past two decades (this fall, the collection surpassed the 450,000 mark). But print photos are another effort altogether. Archivist Peter Blasevick and his staff are organizing a photo collection that consists of 15,000–20,000 photos, mostly representing the years 1970–2000. Unlike photos that are donated to Pingry by collectors who have pre-sorted their materials, these photos are being arranged into “artificial collections” to make it easier to find them. The series include campus life, student life, extracurricular activities, athletics, the yearbook, faculty/staff, Advancement, and buildings. Within each series, the
photos are organized chronologically—and, in many cases, the staff has used yearbooks to identify people and estimate when the photos were taken. Aside from the obvious benefit of being able to find photographs, this organization project will create a neater way for the Archives to store these photographs and eventually digitize them.
To see more from the Archives, visit Pingry Flashes Back (pingry.org/flashesback). Recent posts include athletics trophies through the years and new homes for Pingry’s plaques that recognize donors and named spaces at previous campuses.
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