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Archives: Edgerton Collection (MC0025)

notebook

Sequential image #

 

MC025_nb41-mf_017.tif

MC025 is the collection number for the Edgerton Collection in the Institute Archives.  nb stands for notebook; nb41-mf stands for the microfilm (mf) of notebook #41.  017 stands for the image of the 17th whole frame on the microfilm. (which may or may not be exactly page #17). 

Archives: Edgerton Collection (MC0025)

notebook

derivative version of image file

 

MC025_nb41-mf_017-tm.jpg

As above, except this is a derivative file.  017-tm stands for the thumbnail (tm) of the 17th image from the microfilm frames.

Generic Archives collection using box and folder numbers

Box, then folder, then item

image

 

MC###_b06_f021_003_003.tif

MC### stands for the collection number.  b06 stands for box #6.  f021 stands for folder #21.  003 stands for the third item in folder #21.  The last 003 stands for the page/image number from the third item in folder #21

Rotch and Archives "Perceptual Form of the City" (PFC)

City

Image

 

PFC_Boston_123456.tif

PFC stands for Perceptual Form of the City (collection name).  Boston differentiates this subcollection from images from New York City and other locations.  123456 is the IRIS image number.

   MultiMulti-volume item from general collection

Title, then volume

image
 


barker_TrAmSocStTr_v001_0001.tif

barker is the home library collection for this item.  TrAmSocStTr is an abbreviation of the title: Transactions of the American Society for Steel Treating.  v001 stands for volume 1, and 0001 stands for the first image of this volume.  The Aleph system number (00291693) would be in the metadata.