The materiel for this volume starts with my parents marriage in 1945 and records the growing family. It is arranged for the most part by date but some items are grouped by subject or as allied families.
The identification and dating of most of the photos was done by my parents in the 1980s, and is sometimes approximate. Where I have had grounds to disagree, my interpretation has prevailed.
I have added other photos from my earlier works which are complementary to the current subjects.
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| Manchester | George & Hilda and Margaret and Tom |
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| Kith and Kin | Assorted family friends and more distant cousins. |
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| School | Sundry class photos. |
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| St Joseph's | Groups associated with St Joseph's Church, Tollcross. |
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The CR-ROM has been set up to AutoRun (on Windows systems suitably enabled) an HTML wrapper (ie this file) which, I hope, simplifies the navigation of the images. Each on-screen image has a link to a larger version of the same picture.
The images are numbered —
ALDxxx are images previously published in the Lena Dunne Collection; BFSxxx are from the series of brown folders holding photos not included in the "selected" albums, plus loose photos scattered around the house; GHSxxx are images previously published in the George and Hilda Shaw Collection; WRRxxx are from the "selected" albums, which are mostly post 1945. The photos and postcards were scanned at 300dpi in 24-bit colour on an Epson Perfection 1640SU Photo using Epson Twain 5.5. (In some cases, the reverse of photos were scanned at 200dpi.) The resulting images were saved in JPEG format at 1% compression in "large" folders. The image was also cropped (where appropriate), reduced to a reasonable size for on-screen viewing and saved at 15% compression in the same format in "small" folders. An HTML wrapper has been provided to facilitate on-screen viewing.
If you know some HTML then —
< spin> The HTML wrapper has been kept very simple to afford maximum compatibility with an unknown target of browser types and versions. < /spin>
< fact> I don't know much HTML and have cobbled this together as best I can. I hope it works. < /fact>The layout is calculated for a 1024x768 screen. If you are viewing at 800x600, sorry, but it will sharpen up your horizontal scrolling skills.
Yes, I know some of the pages are of unreasonable length but it's all local, there are no phone bills involved, and the organisation was complicated enough without worrying about page size. (And I wrote that before I ran the disc on a Pentium 133 with an 8x CD drive!)
The CD was written using Nero 5.5 in a single session and finalised. Protocols were ISO Level 1 for file/directory names, ISO 9660 for character set and Joliet (Unicode SVD etc).
The covers were printed on an HPDJ960 (inkjet), they are not water-resistant and will fade with time. How quickly I do not know, but it will be faster if exposed to strong light.
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