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Part 3 of a 3 part series on using the JMM On-line Database
Let’s pretend that you’ve been convinced you to join the 21st century the social media craze. Now that you understand that #tbt stands for Throwback Thursday and means posting an old photo on your Facebook page so people write nostalgic messages, you want to find an image of your high school sweetheart. Since you’ve been following the “Once Upon a Time” feature on the JMM blog, you know that we have a ton of photographs from Jewish Maryland in the collection. You go directly to the JMM online database jmm.pastperfect-online.com and enter a keyword such as “sweetheart” and see what you find…
Unidentified couple being introduced at the AZA Sweetheart dance, 1964. 1995.128.001.026.004
While it was a bit surprising that “sweetheart” actually yielded images, perhaps “dance” would’ve been a better choice, since you distinctly remember smiling for the camera at the spring formal.
A great TBT photo! Black and white photo of a Tau Beta Sigma sorority dance at Hotel Sterling. 1984.211.037
If your sweetheart is from Maryland, you can try entering his or her name in the search box. If you don’t know if she would be catalogued as “Daisy Mae” or “Daisy Duke” “Daisy” will pull up all records with her maiden or married name… and possibly some pictures of pretty flowers. The People record should also indicate alternate names and associated records!
Daisy D. Carawan (Mrs. Barnett) is in the photograph of the 1937 graduating class of the Sinai Hospital School of Nursing. 2010.020.070
Finally, you find the perfect #TBT! You can right click and save image as on your desktop, then attach it to your Facebook page. While the photo should have a light watermark on it, please make sure you tag the Jewish Museum of Maryland in your caption and include the accession number (that long string of numbers starting with a 4-digit year). That what we know when someone has benefited from all our hard work (which always makes us smile!) and folks know where you found the photo—after all, they may be looking some #tbt pictures of their own.
#TBT in action
Just a note of caution: If you “share” an image from the JMM Facebook or twitter, the accession number will be embedded into it. Be prepared to explain to your friends that although the photo is from 1903 and Jewish Museum accession number is 1994.111.3 (meaning that it was brought in to the museum collection in 1994)! You will impress everyone with your knowledge of the JMM and our numbering system!
A blog post by Senior Collections Manager Jobi Zink. To read more posts from Jobi, click here.
The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.
Date run in Baltimore Jewish Times: November 22, 2013
PastPerfect Accession #: 2009.040.2906
Status: Identified? We’ve got a mystery – is this Nili Gold, former Professor of Hebrew Literature at Baltimore Hebrew University (now teaching Hebrew literature at Penn) or Constance “Connie” Kaplan? The photo was taken at a lecture at BHU on December 10, 2000. Let us know who you think this lovely woman is!
Special Thanks To: Rabbi Jan Kaufman; John Hind
The Baltimore Jewish Times publishes unidentified photographs from the collection of Jewish Museum of Maryland each week. If you can identify anyone in these photos and more information about them, contact Jobi Zink, Senior Collections Manager and Registrar at 410.732.6400 x226 or jzink@jewishmuseummd.org.
Date run in Baltimore Jewish Times: November 15, 2013
PastPerfect Accession #: 2006.013.438
Status: Identified (mostly)! Back Row Left to Right: 1.Bernice Friedman 2. Bel Legum 3. Freddie Manekin 4. Unidentified Front Row Left to Right: 1.Dorothy Cordish 2. Shoshana Cardin 3. Eleanor (Ellie) Merican (JCC Associates, a volunteer corps at the JCC helped with fundraising)
