A few weeks ago, we posted about PhillyHistory.org, the site that digitizes photos from the city’s voluminous archives and makes them searchable by keyword, location, date, and more. We suggested a few improvements, and presently received a thorough response from Deb Sting, who works for Avencia, the software company who built the site for the Philadelphia Department of Records. We post it here with her permission:
6 steps to a better PhillyHistory.org
This photo shows Studio 34's location in 1951. Our building came later, but the arches next door are still there.
PhillyHistory.org, the online repository for a small but growing proportion of the city’s archive of historical photos, is a wondrous thing. The archivists and interns at the city’s Department of Records have been working for the better part of a decade to scan and metatag a few hundred photos a week. These are added to a web site that allows the collection to be searched by keyword, date, location, or neighborhood. They even have a blog that notes photos and themes of particular interest.
But using the site is too often frustrating. Here’s some friendly requests of the good folks at PhillyHistory
(Update: Don’t miss PhillyHistory’s response!) [more]
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