Tutorial: Creating titles for historic photographs
Channel: recollectionwi
Date: 2013-04-03

This tutorial will show you how to assign titles to historic photographs for digital collections included in the Recollection Wisconsin search engine. This tutorial covers transcribing existing titles from historic photos and tips for creating titles for photographs that do not have existing titles. Learn the characteristics of a good title and find out how to create a new title based on our simple formula for different types of images, including photos of people, buildings, events, and activities.