Early indications in the cataloguing of the Harry Hunt Collection of CDs is that there are many 4-H photos. Here is one of them, in a mash-up of the original photo and the information that appeared on page 9 of the 22 March 2012 Aldergrove Star. This photo is one of the few printed photos we have in the collection, but an excellent clue on dating it was the St. Patrick's Day balloon in the background.
We are closing in on our 700th CD to be catalogued, with another large box yet to be processed. Once the CDs are catalogued and numbered, we'll be going back to itemize and number each photo on every CD, which also involves finding the newspaper edition the photo appeared in.
Naturally, Harry took more photos than what we will find in the newspapers, but at the very least we'll be able to nail down at/for which event and when the photos were taken. Thankfully, the majority of photo CDs we've sampled thus far have the original metadata attached, which give us a date and even a time when the photo was shot.
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