How can I find items related to a particular school class?
To help organize photographs and documents of classes, schools, sports, etc. we adopted a strategy of trying to determine what the normal graduating class year might be for the photograph. The item is then "tagged" with the year like so: "CO1917" - short for "Class Of 1917". This means that you can search for CO1922 and find any photos (or other items) we felt corresponded to the class of 1922.
This tagging standard is very useful when searching for someone whose age you know or if you know when they graduated from high school. However, if you don't find the person you were looking for we highly advise poking at adjacent years because we can't always determine the class year accurately and, quite frankly, making it through 12 years of school was not exactly the norm 100 years ago.
Can I see high-resolution images?
Maybe. Many (but not all) of our scanned photographs retain their high-resolution files. If you are looking for a higher resolution view of an item, click on the thumbnails in the "Files" section of the item view sidebar. These will download the full-resolution versions of the images.
How can I fix a mistake or omission?
We rely on our audience to help fill in the many missing pieces of our historical record. If you notice an error (e.g., wrong date / name) or omission (e.g., a person is not identified) please send us an email with the item information (the identifier is handy, or just copy and paste the citation in the sidebar) along with your corrected information. Send your submission to: davebets@mac.com. We'll look into it as soon as we can. Thank you!
p.s. We're not just looking for corrections! We also welcome anecdotes or stories to help create a more well-rounded description.
What the heck is Dublin Core?
You might see references to "Dublin Core" here and there. This refers to a cataloging standard. Nothing to do with Ireland (indeed, the "Dublin" that it was named after was in Ohio!)