Mark down January 2014 as the time when the count passed 3,000 objects of sports history preserved in the archives of New Ulm Sports Central, the website designed to retain as much history as possible of athletics in the immediate New Ulm area.
Each preservation subject is indexed and cataloged as an object in the system. Each images is identified by 16 different categories plus date or origin and text data (description) that may be searched.
In addition, each receives a dating and a text description making 20 possible ways available to be searched for . Some of the descriptions for the categories have over 100 different fixed subject descriptions. Example: A team category may identify the team as Brewers, Millers, Mud Hens, etc.
The majority of objects have an accompanying image which may be viewed on-line plus another image which is a higher quality negative which produces a better cropped image in reproduction. Often is only a representative of multiple images which may be located in that object's file system.
If the total images shown in the left hand column on the home page has a JPG and TIF negative of the subject shown plus only two others unprocessed related negatives, that means this site has preserved over 5,208 images plus thousand images more to be processed by Community Research Technology, Inc., the entity which powers New Ulm sports Central.