RING Magazine Cover Scans Needed

Ric · Post by **Ric** » 28 Apr 2005, 12:27

Over at the BoxRec Boxing Encyclopedia, I have been working on providing scans of every RING magazine cover:
http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring

But I am missing a few. So I am asking you to email to me scans of covers that I am missing. The list of missing scans is below. As I get scans from you, I will edit the list to delete those that I receive.

Please try to limit the resolution to no more than 75, and to make the size height no more than 300 pixels. See, for example:
http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/T ... vers:_1932

Regarding the list below, the number after the year refers to the issue month: 3=March, 11=November, etc.

1922: 3,5,6,7,8,10,11,12
1924: 1-3,5-9,12
1925: 2,4; bigger (300 pixels) 9 & 12
1926: a better-looking 1, 3, better 6
1927: 1,3,4
1929: 11
1930: 7
1933: clearer-looking 1, bigger/better 2;better 7,4,12
1935: better 5,6
1937: better 1,12
1938: 4
1940: 2,8,10 (& bigger 7?--300 pixels tall)
1941: bigger 3, better 7 & 9, 11, 12
1942: better 2 & 3,11
1943: better 8,9,11
1944: bigger 2 & 4, a better (readjusted) 7
1947: better 2 & 7
1949: better 6
1950: bigger 2,4,5
1954: bigger (all) 2,3,5,8
1959: 12
1965: 4
1980: 11
1981: 12
1985: 3,4,5
1990: 2,5,6,11,12
1991: 1,2,4,5,6,12
1992: 5,7,8,10-12
1993: 2, 4-8,10-12
1994: 1,4,6,8,9,11,12,winter
1995: 2,4,6,7,9,11,12 (was there a December issue?)
1996: 1-5,7,9,12, Holiday
1997: 1-3,5,7-10
1998: all but 2,11,12
1999: all but 3,6
2000: all but 12
2001: 2,3,5,7,8,10,11,12
2002: all but 10,11
2004: all
2005: all

Thanks--

Eric the Viking · Post by **Eric the Viking** » 28 Apr 2005, 14:11

Good project, Ric. If I may be so bold, a possibly even better one would be to scan the *Table of Contents* of all the Ring issues and use the kind of software that converts it to plaintext form - that would reduce storage and allow it to be easily searchable.

Ric · Post by **Ric** » 28 Apr 2005, 14:38

Eric the Viking wrote:Good project, Ric. If I may be so bold, a possibly even better one would be to scan the *Table of Contents* of all the Ring issues and use the kind of software that converts it to plaintext form - that would reduce storage and allow it to be easily searchable.

Eric,
If you'll notice the comment at the bottom of the 1932 issue link, that is what I am doing, too.

Because I believe the Tables of Contents (TOCs) will be a valuable tool for researchers.

BTW: This also requires that one separately mention/link names and topics of the TOCs, so that the WIKI (Encyclopedia) search engine's spider will add them to the search database. Here's one that I worked on earlier:
http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php?t ... an.TOC.jpg

The problem is, I don't have many TOCs at my disposal. I have added many, however, for the late 1970s and early 1980s.

What kind of software do you suggest?

Eric the Viking · Post by **Eric the Viking** » 28 Apr 2005, 16:04

Ric wrote:What kind of software do you suggest?

There are many kinds out there, and I'm not qualified to recommend one over another. But many (if not most) multifunction print/copy/scanners nowadays have this kind of software bundled in - for instance, I just bought an HP 1310-series multifunction a couple months back, and one can supposedly manipulate text in scanned images (and import it into a word processing programming) via the bundled software - I haven't tried it myself yet, as my main uses are the print & copy (the scan was something I didn't really need, but multifunctions are so cheap nowadays that you just get the one that has *at least* the features you need at the right price - they quite often have more.)

Check the user guide for your scanner - there may be something there you overlooked the first time through.