Posted: 14 March 2018

Display responds to size of screen

The display is slightly different depending on the size of your screen. Click on the magnifying glass icon indicated marked with a blue arrow to locate the search function. On a tablet or smartphone you'll have to scroll down the page, after you click the icon, to locate the search box.

Powerful search function

Example 1: Let's assume you're looking for photographs of Marcus Cleary. Type the surname (cleary) or first name (marcus) into the Search Box. Four images will pop up. One from 2017 and three from 2004. 

Clicking on any of the photographs creates a slideshow which only contains the images that match the search criteria. 

To start a new search, clear the name from the search box, and off you go again.

Example 2: There are many photographs of John Morgan and Denzil Tipping on the system. However, I wonder if there is an image of Denzil Tipping and John Morgan. A photograph of the two of them together. 

In the search box type: tipping and morgan.

The display will show:

One photograph pops up. It was taken on 13 Oct 2004.

Missing photographs

"Missing" is probably the wrong word. There are no missing photographs. There are photographs with no captions. And if a photo has no caption, search won’t be able to find it. Adding captions is a slow, and tedious job. Paraic Lavelle and Julie Savage have been working on captions for several months. If you would like to help, please contact Paraic or Julie, or me. We'll assign a single album to you, say one containing about 20 or less photographs, and ask you to identity the individuals in each photograph. All you need is a screen to view the photographs, and a pencil and paper. Some names will be obvious but others won't. So it may take a little time and you may have to ask around. We really would appreciate your help.

The Photographic and Media Archive, which you'll find on the same menu (The Club > Photo and Media Archive), contains photographs that have NO captions.

Back to Searchable Photographic Archive.