Do you have Past Perfect tech support? Because if so I would ask them. I would like to know the answer to this question! I have been cataloging only photos so far and not digital scans without the photo which I keep in a separate category in Lightroom.  

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> On Dec 21, 2018, at 12:30 PM, Addison Historical Museum <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Need some advice.
> 
> Recently, we were lent a local sports figure's scrapbook to scan archival items such as proclamations, news clippings, stickers,  event entry paperwork and photos.
> 
> I am not sure how to catalog these scanned images.  I inherited a system where objects and archives are given regular accession numbers but photographs are given the accession number starting with P and are recorded in a different accession binder
> 
> For digital photographs, I have been accessioning them in the Photos accession binder under the terminology, Photograph, Digital.and in the Photograph catalog in Past Perfect.
> 
> What I am grappling with are the items that were not originally photographs- do I treat the items as archives (even though they are only digital scans) and accession them with a regular 2018.XX.XX or do I accession them as digital items along with the Photographs.
> 
> If I accession them as archives, do I catalog them as scans primarily and then describe what type they depict or do I catalog them per the type they depict and just note they are scans only in the description or
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> If I accession them as scans in the photograph catalog, do I describe the archival material they depict in the description only?
> 
> Any helpful advice would be appreciated before I set yet another precedent.
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> 
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> Susan English
> Historical Museum Coordinator
> Addison Historical Museum
> Village of Addison
> 630-628-1433
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