After looking through plenty of student handbooks and yearbooks, I have quite a few photos available for this post. However, we still have decades worth of yearbooks to look through, so this timeline I made is definitely lacking photos form large periods of time.
We will probably include a timeline of major changes in dress on campus, so I was curious if Timeline JS would give me any problems. It was surprisingly easy to use! The only issue that I encountered, which I have no idea how to fix, is that some of the images rotated, and are displayed sideways or upside down. If anyone could give me some pointers on how to prevent that from happening, I would appreciate it!
The photos that I included were taken with my phone in Special Collections, and Carley and I will be scanning the images that we most want to use for our website so that we will have high quality versions.
This is really cool, I never thought to use Timeline JS for this project! I’m interested to see how y’all’s project incorporates this app further.
I am really getting excited about all of the projects. Love the images.
Kathryn–
Love the slide show! Let’s ask Scott on Wed about rotating the images. I imagine there’s got to be a way to do it. Looking good! Dr. Brown
I didn’t even think about using Timeline JS for the pics! I do have a suggestion though to improve the quality of the pics. I don’t know if Truman State has digitized their yearbooks yet, but you should double check. My school digitized them a while ago so I was able to just take screenshots of the images on my laptop. Even if they haven’t digitized yet, you could try finding a scanner and scanning then cropping the images. It is more work but I think the quality will be worth it.