Something that drives us rather batty - we find photocopies (usually really bad photocopies) of photos, and we can see that a negative (12A) was made of the original photo, but...
The negatives were not filed in negative strip holders/pages. The negatives were not in any type of file specifically for negatives. The negatives were not kept in strips, they were cut into individual negatives. They might be in an envelope with a reproduction of the photo. They might be in a school folder. They might be in a family folder. They might be in a little plastic sleeve stapled to an information sheet. There are multiple negatives with the same number. We have come to learn that the "NIB" notation means "not in book", which translates to it's not in either volume of The Place Between, which means it's not in the book photo files. So, long story short...no, we have not found this negative yet. Nor the names that go with the students.
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