We contract with a company named SmugMug to store, manage and archive photographs and images for the Jones Valley website.  Since we started the site in 2004 we have uploaded over 28,000 photos and images as of April 2009.  In any give month we have over 25,000 images viewed.  The bulk of these images were loaned to me to scan and upload.  Unfortunately, I am not smart enough to figure out how to let everyone upload.  If you have photos or documents to share please send them to me at the following address and I will scan and return them to you within 48 hours.  My mailing address is 5241 Overland Trace, Birmingham 35244.

The images are organized in "galleries" and "sub-galleries" to facilitate navigation and viewing.  As of this writing the organization looks like:

Yearbooks - the first Jones Valley yearbook appeared in 1923, continued through 1930, stopped during the depression and war and picked up again in 1946.  Within the Yearbook gallery a sub gallery exists for each published year from 1923-1978.
Graduating Classes - a sub-gallery exists with photos of the graduating class from each published yearbook.
Reunions - a sub-gallery exist for each graduating class we have reunion photos for. 
Get Togethers - we began having monthly luncheons open to all JV alumnus in 2004.  You will find photos of these get togethers organized is sub-galleries by year and month.
School Days - you will find old photos taken during school years in this gallery.  There are not sub-galleries but I just can't come up with a way to further organize this gallery.
Now-a-Days - in this gallery you will find photos taken of alumnus after the graduated - mostly current photos.
Family - just as the name implies, this gallery houses photos of our families.
Memorabilia - this gallery is a catch-all for images of newspaper articles, newsletters, programs etc.

The great news is that you can download your own hi-resolution copy of any of these images.  Here's how.

1.  Find the image you want to download.  Double click on the image until it is the only one showing.

2.  Scroll down to the text just below the photograph and note the line.  (For some unknown reason this line occasionally appears above the photo.)

"Sizes:  S * M * L * Original" 

3. Click on "Original".  This causes the system to display the image in the resolution at which the photo was originally scanned.

4.  Once the image has been completely displayed, right click on the image and left-click on "Save Picture As".  Be patient, some of the images are very high resolution and take a little longer to display.  You will not be able to see the "Save Picture As" option until the image is completely displayed.

5.  Using the "Save Picture" window that appears, tell your computer where on your disk drive you would like to store the image.

That's all there is to it.  If you have any questions feel free to email me at bobroper@bellsouth.net or give me a call at 205-910-5413.