The American annual of photography (1914) (14779883022)

Identifier: americanannualof28newy (find matches)
Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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might be, and sometimes has atendency to fade. The secret of a really useful card index is to have clear,definite headings and a logical system of grouping togetherall items dealing with the same subject. The principal head-ing, regarding which there ought to be little doubt, should bethat under which particulars as to the book, volume, page, etc.,where the information is to be found, are entered; while suchextra headings as seem called for should be written on othercards, with simply a reference to the principal one. Copying-easel, for example, should also be indexed under the headingEasel, Copying; while Speculum Condenser for Enlarg-ing strictly requires two additional cards, headed respectively,Condenser, Speculum, for Enlarging and Enlarging, Specu-lum Condenser for. Common-sense and restraint must,however, be exercised, avoiding palpably superfluous titles,which merely take up unnecessary room. A typical card withactual entries is illustrated by Figure 3. The numbers against 64
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A SNOWY DAY, CITY HALL SQUARE, NEW YORK. JOHN E. BOULTENHOUSE, each entry are to save trouble in making notes for futurereference, it being only necessary to take down the subjectheading and the number. The question of cross references demands an intelligentstudy. Many articles and paragraphs contain information re-lating to various subjects, or a single subject may be closelyallied with another branch of work. In such cases severalcross references may be required on different cards. Thus,an article dealing mainly with cameras may also contain detailsof special shutters, which should be separately indexed; someaspects of telephotography may need indexing under the head-ing of military photography; and so on. Experience alone canteach the most practical and useful methods of cross-indexingand how to keep a happy medium between overloading theindex on the one hand, and, on the other, omitting essentialheadings that are bound to be referred to sooner or later. Brief paragraphs in magazin