While the Internet is Icky, Reflections Plays

Copyright 2013, CABS for Reflections From the Fence

While the connection here in Packwood Washington is limited to ONLY my Sprint phone and a bit of Wi-Fi when I can get over to the local coffee house, I have been cleaning files on the hard drive.  I have deleted over 300 files that were no longer needed, or were duplicates.  I have moved some files to other storage areas on the hard drive.  I have used some to improve the images I have attached to my data base.  I have even done a bit of electronic fixing on some scans that were buried on the hard drive, waiting for me to do something to them.

One such photo is of Man’s father and business partner back in 1952, when Man’s father drove truck.  It started like this.

The first generation of this turned into this image:

The final installation looks like this.  I am no whiz at digital editing, and no I am not totally thrilled, but, it will do for now.

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Why Digitizing Is So Important

Copyright 2013, CABS for Reflections From the Fence

First, let me say, I am not casting stones at the county of record, this happens everywhere, paper quality differs, issues (like mice, etc.) happen.

But, this is what can happen to our paper records.  And, this is why I am thrilled that this county has allowed some recent digitizing of portions of their records.

From my experience I would guess that this damage was cause by the breakdown and over handling of the paper.  Lucky for me, seeing that this is a record that I was interested in, the information seems to be there, the losses are minimal.  I reviewed the entire record set, this was one of the most damaged records.

Yes, we do love digitizing of records.




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