I started years ago labeling my negatives by number, starting with 1649. It was my street address in Makiki at that time. It was also my office.
Since then, Iʻve stuck with labeling the back of contact sheets and prints with a sequential job number of that shooting.
Each contact sheet has different numbers under each picture.
So if we have 7085-11-34, then:
- 7075 is the job number. Each job number is documented in Ed Greevy’s filing system.
- 11 is the 11th roll of film taken
- 34 is the 34th picture on the 11th roll
Ed Greevy
Honolulu, HI