Photographs

Sorted by decade, then sorted into subject classifications.

Scheme for classifying photographs:

Each item will have a number to facilitate: retrieval of items found by searching database refiling matching up of digital images (if created) to physical items.

Item numbers will be assigned by time period, which is usually a decade (exact date, if known, will be recorded in database). The following categories will be used:

Pre-1904 (for any images dealing with Market Place building or classes/activities predating the 1904 fire)

1904-1919 (pre-1920)

1920s

1930s

1940s

etc.

February 1904 is used as a dividing date due to the Baltimore Fire that destroyed the Market Place building at that time.

Within each decade, images will be sorted into topical categories:

01 Classroom/Instruction – students, faculty, seminars, critiques, lectures, demonstrations.

02 Artwork – reproductions of work by students or faculty.

03 Special events – parties, fashion shows, open houses, commencements, plays, portfolio days, registration, student orientations, public/community events.

04 Students – at leisure or extra-curricular activities; individual or group portraits.

05 Faculty – individual or group portraits.

06 Buildings – before/after renovation, construction, views.

07 Historical documents – primarily textual documents, or reproductions of such. Example: photographically reproduced newspaper clippings from past exhibitions.

08 Non-MICA

09 Exhibitions

10 Administration – Meetings/events or portraits showing presidents, deans, trustees, etc.

11 Staff

12 Library

13 Maryland Institute School of Mechanical Arts (Market Place – post 1904)

14 Alumni

Resulting file name would be as follows:

1940s-02-0001, 1940s-02-0002 (two images of artwork by students from the 1940s)