Harold Augustus Taylor

I was looking for the photographer when I began delving into the life of Harold A. Taylor. This is the photographer who founded the Camera Enthusiasts of San Diego in 1927. This is the first photography club to meet in Balboa Park. He was an active participant with Dr. Scott Watson and his Photographic Arts Society. Harold Taylor also assisted in the formation of the current Southern California Association of Camera Clubs in 1949-1950. This organization continues to meet in Balboa Park.

The Structure of Research

The collection of information for a history of Camera Clubs in Balboa Park is a huge task. In spans a time period of 1927 to the present. It is the story of the men and women who created, grew and maintained the clubs through that stretch of time. It is not only the history of Balboa Park; but also the history of a 150 years of San Diego.

I have chosen to use Evernote, a cross-platform app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving information.

The app allows users to create a "note" which can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notebooks can be added to a stack while notes can be sorted into a notebook, tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched, and exported as part of a notebook.

This massive amount of information is able to be tamed with the creation of a Table of Contents which is hyperlinked to specific areas within a notebook named "Camera Clubs of Balboa Park". Specific information is able to be located easily with the Table of Contents, Tags and Search functions.