Photo Ops

Normally Photo Ops is a shorthand way of referring to Photographic Opportunities for politicians to show that they're just everyday folks or that they are powerful folks yet benevolent in assuring a particular project or program gets underway.

Today, though, I have in mind a pretty rich resource of photographs that most folks don't consider:  school yearbooks.  Whether highschool, college or university - most smaller schools produce these annually.  What a great way to see what a relative, parent, or teacher looked like years ago.

At the MHSA we have a lot of yearbooks - probably over 100 - on the shelves for lots of prairie and west-coast schools.  Mennonite Educational Institute, Bethany Bible Institute, Prairie Bible Institute, Swift Current Bible Institute, Mennonite Brethren Bible College, Columbia Bible College, Canadian Mennonite Bible College and more. 

Some in our collection go back to the 1930s and earlier.  And, they're on our library shelves, so it's an easy matter to bring along a digital camera or borrow our scanner to capture an image for your research purposes.

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