The UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections has digitized over 5,000 of their photographs from the LA Times and LA Daily News photo archives for the collection Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990. These photographs document the history of Los Angeles from 1920s to 1990.
Selection Decisions
UCLA chose photos that capture “historically and socially significant” people, places, and events as well as images of everyday life. They ordered the photos under categories that document politics, urban and economic development, arts and culture, the entertainment industry, crime and law enforcement, religion, sports, gender issues, and popular culture and trends.
Metadata
Users can browse or search by keyword. When searching by keyword, users can search in the title or caption and limit by genre, format, or publication. Each photo is accompanied by catalog record information that includes the title, published caption, publication, date, subjects, genre, physical description, source, photo ID, and copyright contact.
Object Characteristics
All photographs are black and white, which is to be expected given that they are newspaper photos. It appears that all of the they are all either transparencies or negatives. The digitized images include the edges of the film, so users can identify whether it is a negative or a transparency, and even what type of film was used. The images are in a high resolution jpeg format.
Audience
Selection Decisions
UCLA chose photos that capture “historically and socially significant” people, places, and events as well as images of everyday life. They ordered the photos under categories that document politics, urban and economic development, arts and culture, the entertainment industry, crime and law enforcement, religion, sports, gender issues, and popular culture and trends.
Metadata
Users can browse or search by keyword. When searching by keyword, users can search in the title or caption and limit by genre, format, or publication. Each photo is accompanied by catalog record information that includes the title, published caption, publication, date, subjects, genre, physical description, source, photo ID, and copyright contact.
Object Characteristics
All photographs are black and white, which is to be expected given that they are newspaper photos. It appears that all of the they are all either transparencies or negatives. The digitized images include the edges of the film, so users can identify whether it is a negative or a transparency, and even what type of film was used. The images are in a high resolution jpeg format.
Audience
This digital collection is made available and searchable online through the UCLA Digital Library. It is therefore geared toward any number of people. According to the site, it is meant to “assist a wide variety of researchers, including scholars, educators, students, writers, filmmakers, urban planners, community activists, librarians, and members of the general public.”
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