Re: [Cz-L] 3 new albums of cards and photos posted...

Hi Mimi et al.

Let me use this post to try and clear up the notion of dating and
location of the pictures in the albums.

What I'm trying to do is capture the pre-1945 photos and cards that are
posted on LiveJournal so that if LiveJournal ever goes under or starts
eliminating their older posts to save server space, the materials won't
be lost. I don't collect the captions, some of which may contain the
date and location.

To capture the contextual material would require me, for each photo, to
use Google Language Tools to translate the Ukrainian into English and
then to append that to the photograph as a caption when I make the
album. A nightmare of a process considering the number of photos
collected.

It is possible, for a photo of interest, to go back to LiveJournal and
find it the hard way, by looking for it, then applying whatever tools
you have to decode the caption. You'll find most of the time, it says
something like: 'Old photo - before 1930'. Stuff that's pretty obvious
by looking at the photo in the first place.

It is also possible to join the LiveJournal gr_czernowitz community and
to post there. Or, simply visit it each day and collect what is of
interest to you -- original captions and all.

Best,
jerome

On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 00:43 -0400, Miriam Taylor wrote:
> Thank you Jerome.
> These are very interesting.
> Would one of the members of the list who read Ukrainian, translate what it
> says on the captions. Also if anyone can identify the location and the date,
> this would also be information, many of us would appreciate.
>
> Mimi

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