CAPTIONS
Helena captioned most of her photos, typically including the subject(s), location, and date. All her notations are included here.
If you request and receive a captioned print, whether you also receive Helena's handwritten notation could depend on where she wrote it. If the caption was written on the back of the photo, there is no problem. If a single handwritten note applies to a packet of photos, only one person could get the handwritten note. Captions for mounted prints are written next to the photo on the album page — and for reasons explained below, that may complicate things.
Viewing Captions Online. I photographed the captions on the back of a few prints, and those those appear as a separate images. Otherwise, I typed the caption in full. Typed captions appear only in slideshow view, formatted according to the schema below. The black items in the schema are always present; the grey items are sometimes present. If no caption is displayed, it didn't have one. The original captions are always enclosed within quotation marks. Comments not in quotation marks were added by me.
[Image number] :: [Original Caption] [Added Comment]
Viewing Captions Offline. When you download and save an image, the caption is saved in the metadata of the file and can be viewed offline:
- In Windows, right-click the file; then go to Properties ↪ Details.
- On a Mac, open the photo in Preview, then go to Tools ↪ Show Inspector ↪ Exif.
- In Linux, use a free utility like Exif.
- Captions can also be can be viewed in many photo-management programs such as Lightroom.
Preservation of handwritten captions from the album pages. As mentioned above, Helena's captions for her album photos are written directly on the album pages, next to the photos. Two factors may interfere the preservation of those handwritten notations, when the photos are distributed. First, the prints and captions are on both sides of each album page, with the result that some captions are written opposite one another on the two sides. Second, nearly all the prints are mounted with double-sided adhesive squares, rather than with mounting corners or rubber cement. To remove individual prints for distribution, I will use dental floss, the recommended method for this situation. I will do my best, but because the album paper has grown extremely brittle with age, the paper may be damaged. When a print is removed, if at all possible I will keep the handwritten caption with the print. But for the two reasons stated above, this might not always be possible.
To archive the notations in their handwritten form, I photographed all the album pages in their intact state. These photos appear in Group 23 , where in screenview you can zoom in on the notations.