Sort Photos by Print Run: Turn Them Over

Sorting by printrun keeps family events grouped by film batch and time
by

As I’ve aged I’ve discovered my mind delivers memories like a poker dealer, shuffling them around into different seasons and years.

So when it comes to sorting out your own family photos I’ve found, if the photos not dated, I can shuffle the events better than any poker dealer on cards night. Instead of agonizing over the “when” sort them based on the print run code printed on the back. I’ve discovered photos processed as early as the 1920s and 1930s with print run numbers. Examples of these are feature in the gallery below.

Instead of your mind playing the role of a poker dealer give your mind a card game of solitaire instead. Stack  the photos together that share the same print run. When you’ve finished turn each stack over and coax your memory with a stack of grouped prints. Now each photo stack represents the print process run for each film submitted for developing.

If you lucky enough to find the negatives in the plastic sleeves then you can use the negatives to sequence each photo in the processing stack. That’s if you have the time.

By following the print run method you’ve at least tied down your poker dealing memory.

Good luck with you saving your family knowledge of your family photos.

Remember after grouping by print run to use the family journal process and write a few words about the events in the photos. Use the event codes outlined in the family knowledge process.

 

Turn them over. Sort by processing batch.
The portable hard drive of the past. The narrated family photo album by Family Group Code.
Print run on 1930s photos.
The Family Group recording the Foundation Event for this Family Group.
Photos of the 1990s displaying processing batch codes
1930s photos sorted by print run before looking at pictures.
After sorting by processing batch then start looking at the events.
After sorting by processing batch then turn them over.
Family Group Coded Albums
In a few words so much more is felt when viewing photos.
The Portable Hard Drive is a treasure trove. Just like old Family Albums.

 

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/257733981″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”600″ iframe=”true” /]

 

 

I hope you enjoyed this multi-media article by R.L.Black and it supports you in sorting photos to start your own Family Group Project.

Family knowing starts with you and is important.

Other articles following this theme on Prized Possessions are:

Above all else, Take Stock

Journal Power: How to keep family knowledge

 

About Soul Assets

Soul Assets exists for a soul purpose, to educate families with survival skills to KEEP family knowledge in the Information Age. Soul Assets is the place for families to share skills of the Family Knowledge Process. Imagine, fifty years from now, people inheriting keepsakes that are welcomed by the next family because they were treasured as Soul Assets.