Community History Collection
Preserve your community’s history before it fades
Neighbors, businesses, and local historians hold the photos of your town’s past. A Collection gathers them into one heritage archive, with the year, the place, and the story behind each one.
Start a Community History CollectionOr see a sample Collection first →
$229/year for a 12-month collaborative workspace from EventPix.photo. $179/year for verified nonprofits and schools.
Room for ~25,000 photos (100 GB). Videos and large scans use more, and you can add storage anytime.
A town’s memory lives in a few people’s attics
The photos that tell your community’s story sit in private albums, and each year a few more are lost for good. A Collection lets any neighbor add what they have, records the year and place while someone still remembers, and gives your historical society one organized archive to protect and share.
Organize by decade, place, and event
A folder structure built for local history: decades, locations, people, and events. The archive stays easy to browse as it grows.
Record the details that matter to historians
Year, location, and description travel with each photo, and download as a spreadsheet alongside the images.
Share what’s ready, protect the rest
Publish the folders you’ve verified as a public gallery; keep unsorted or sensitive photos private to your team.
See a finished Collection
Browse a sample archive: 49 photographs of Southington, Connecticut, from about 1920 and 1942. They’re sorted into folders with captions, dates, and sources, the way visitors would see yours.
Open the sample gallery →Inside a Collection
These screens come from the sample Collection.
- 1Sort photos into folders. Only the folders you publish go public.
- 2Every photo your team and contributors add. New uploads wait for your approval.
- 3Add a caption, date, place, and source to each photo.
- 1Your cover photo, title and a short introduction.
- 2Visitors can search every caption and detail.
- 3Each published folder becomes a section.
- 1The caption becomes the photo’s title.
- 2Every detail you recorded, from the year to the source.
- 3Visitors use the arrows to move through the archive.
- 1Contributors open your link and type their name. No account to create, no app to install.
- 2Each photo lands in your Inbox and stays private until a curator approves it.
- 3They add the year, a description, and the place while they remember it.
How a Collection works
Share one link
Anyone with the link adds photos and videos from their phone or computer. No app, no account to create. Their uploads land in one place for your team to sort.
Add the stories
Every photo can carry the year, the names, and a short description. Contributors add what they remember; your curators fill in the rest.
Organize as a team
Sort photos into folders, tag them, approve what belongs, and hand roles to the people helping. Your whole team works in the same Collection for the project.
Publish and download
Show the folders you choose as a gallery or a slideshow, and download the whole archive with a spreadsheet of every detail. What you download is yours to keep.
The workspace is where your team collaborates for the year. The archive you download is yours to keep: every photo at original quality, plus a spreadsheet of the details.
Common questions
Most of our photos are old prints. Can we still add them?
Yes. Take a photo of the print with your phone, laid flat in good light, or upload a scan. It goes in with the same year, names, and description as any other photo. Many contributors photograph a whole album page, then add the details afterward.
Who should own a community archive?
Pick one steady person or officer to own the Collection, often someone at the historical society. They invite curators to help, and if they ever step down, ownership can be transferred, so the archive is never locked to an address no one can reach.
How is this different from a shared drive or group album?
A shared drive holds files. A Collection also holds the context: the year, the names, and the story behind each photo. Your team can sort, tag, and approve together, so you end up with an organized archive, not a folder of mystery photos.
Do contributors need an account?
No. You share a link, they add photos, videos, and details from any phone or computer, and their uploads arrive for your team to review. The owner, admins, and curators sign in to organize; contributors just use the link.
How long do we have access, and does it renew?
A Collection is a 12-month collaborative workspace: you can upload, organize, publish, and export the whole time. Renew to keep the workspace going year after year. Your archive carries forward instead of starting over. If you decide not to renew, there’s a grace window after the term where the owner and curators can still download everything before the workspace closes.