From Album to Archive: Context, Meaning, and Two Photographic Albums from an India Mission
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Abstract
This article compares two nineteenth-century photographic albums: one compiled by Miss Amanda Jefferson that is now held in a private collection, and the other produced by Sir William James Wanless that is housed in a public archive. Both Jefferson and Wanless served as missionaries to Western India for the Presbyterian Church of the United States. Jefferson intended her album for public circulation and it mainly depicts the local people, compound, and women’ s domain. In his album, Wanless forwards the infrastructure and civilizing efforts of their work although his is a private album intended as an aide-mémoire. These albums exist in silent contrast to one another, each dependent on, yet obscured by, the apparent coherence and exclusivity of the other. Reading these albums together, however, can illuminate the shadows cast by each, the gaps, silences, and exclusions that result from shifting these objects between public and private spaces, both within their time and in ours. RÉSUMÉ Ce texte compare deux albums de photographies du dix-neuvième siècle : le premier a été rassemblé par Mlle Amanda Jefferson et il se trouve maintenant dans une collection privée; le second a été produit par Sir William James Wanless et il est conservé dans un centre d’archives publiques. Jef ferson et Wanless ont tous les deux servi l’Église presbytérienne des États-Unis comme missionnaires aux Indes occidentales. Jefferson s’était proposée de créer un album à dif fusion publique qui montre surtout les populations locales, les habitations et le domaine des femmes. Dans son album, Wanless fait état de l’infrastructure et des ef forts « civilisateurs » de son travail, même si son album était personnel et destiné à servir d’aide-mémoire. Ces deux albums existent en contraste l’un de l’autre, chacun ayant besoin de la cohérence apparente et de l’exclusivité de l’autre, tout en étant éclipsé en même temps par lui. La lecture des deux albums de façon parallèle, cependant, peut servir à combler les vides, les silences et les omissions qui se produisent lorsque nous déplaçons ces objets d’un espace à l’autre (soit l’espace personnel ou public), tant à leur époque qu’à la nôtre.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".