Thanks to Jolene (Archivist) from the Upper Hutt Public Library
for granting access to these school magazines. The Library will be
given pdf copies of each magazine I scan but I will only be posting the
individual scans on the site so people can peck and hunt without a
large download.
Some magazines are much harder to scan than others, whether it be due
to age/paper or something as infuriating as poorly placed staples
in the original binding.
I had a nasty time scanning 1965 due to staples that might as well have
been halfway across the page for the sake of adding meat to the bones
of this sad little tale.
Words disappearing from the original page or words bleeding through
from overleaf, that last one threatened to give me nightmares
until a mate mumbled something about Histogram adjustment. The odd page
was so bad I could only achieve a mediocre finish, if you look around
at a few years it will be fairly obvious which ones gave me grief.
The difference between scanning a `friendly' magazine and
an `unfriendly' magazine of comparable size is around 2 hours,
not
counting post scan work.
If I was working on only one or two magazines for the fun of
it I'm sure the finished results would be better, I could
agonise longer over any photographs in these magazines but there wouldn't
be anywhere near as much content making it onto classorama if I did. For
many of the Panuis in particular there will be much better copies of
the images used in the magazines under their respective year in the
class section.
Make sure to check the Contents page of each Panui if you don't want to
click on every single scan. The cover of each Panui is 001 in the
numerical order and some of the photo pages weren't allocated numbers
in the original printing so pg 33 might have a photo page between it
and pg 34. Not an ideal situation but I work on the
assumption that someone from 1955 will be interested enough to look at
every page from that year anyway. I've included the advertising sold to
help pay for printing the original magazines for a couple of
reasons...historical interest to some extent and also because as
tempting as it is to stop scanning when I reach those adverts if I do
stop doing them I'll start looking for other reasons not to scan
certain parts of a magazine and before you know it I'm just uploading
the colourful covers...believe me, if I thought I'd get away with
it.
Enjoy your walk down memory lane.
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Mark
15/01/09
There were times I thought I'd never get this job finished. The
scanning process was monotonously arduous, the post-scan
work hideously labourious. I wailed, I wept, I threw myself
to the ground and, when the tantrum was over, I still had 44 more
magazines to scan.
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Mark
10/02/09
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