They did, They just planned ahead. It was even a required assignment in college to create our own archiving systems as a research project.
But here is something helpful http://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/content/one-photographer%E2%80%99s-strategy-image-archiving-part-one-two
On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Emily L. Ferguson <elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> How in the world did people do this before computers?
They didn't. They just kept everything. Like my negative files. At least I can throw out the transparencies I should have discarded when they came from the processor, now that everything's being scanned.
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