11 May, 2024
Recreating Historic Images
Back in 2016 a group of tourism professionals, historians, marketing pros and the US National Park Service began to work towards creating a U.S. Civil Rights Trail with the goal...
I was recently scanning some very old family photos to preserve them, as the negatives were not in the best of condition, and I found myself enjoying looking at the folders they...
24 March, 2024
Historical Records in Family Photographs
I am the custodian of a large archive of images taken by at least five generations of my family, with the oldest negatives dating to the mid-1880’s. These taken by Percy ...
6 December, 2023
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
People of a certain age will recognize this as a quotation – possibly a misquotation – from one of Joni Mitchell’s songs that was probably popular around the ...
27 February, 2022
Saving Glass Plates From WW1 – By Michell Boysen
Living in a small town in the countryside has its pros and cons.
One of the pros (or cons) being that if you work in an area outside of the ordinary,
most people know about it...
I retired in 2012 and decided to turn up the wick on my lifelong interest in film photography. I wanted something to do in the indoor winter months and started to scan my archi...
25 October, 2020
Found Photos – Sam Hyde’s Photography Adventures, 1898-1904 – by Christoph Traugott
Sam Hyde's Photography Adventures, 1898-1904, travelogue and personal pictures came in quite the elaborate handmade-showpiece-styled photo-album. Images are of locations in the ...
27 September, 2020
Found Photos – Henry N. Mudge – A Suitcase of Negatives, 1916 to 1925 – Christoph Traugott
While out photoing in the rural Manchester and Glasgow, Scott County, Illinois areas, I stopped into the Winchester Historic Square area, and made a beeline for the Antique stor...