Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I was a very geeky child Rob so maybe they are best left undiscovered at this stage. 
I agree with you about the idea of having a sub forum here for archival images ... there would be a lot of value in it IMO. Part of the reason I have forward and reverse hyperlinks in the threads I've been posting is so that they are easy to browse for anyone interested in future. If ever we have the forum software update I would dread to think of these threads being lost in the transition!
I agree with you about the idea of having a sub forum here for archival images ... there would be a lot of value in it IMO. Part of the reason I have forward and reverse hyperlinks in the threads I've been posting is so that they are easy to browse for anyone interested in future. If ever we have the forum software update I would dread to think of these threads being lost in the transition!
charjohncarter
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I love it when I find old negatives.
I think this might have been me, but I'm not sure:
I think this might have been me, but I'm not sure:
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John, I knew you'd join us on this thread. That's a great shot, but please watch your hands. Didn't you have some sort of chaperon?
Michael Markey
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Great thread Rob.
New York looks great .
I have K64 slides going back to `73 but am also fortunate to have my late fathers prints taken in India and Burma in WW2 aswell as some from my grandmother from 1890/ 1900.
New York looks great .
I have K64 slides going back to `73 but am also fortunate to have my late fathers prints taken in India and Burma in WW2 aswell as some from my grandmother from 1890/ 1900.
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oftheherd
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I feel for you. I still have most of the photos I took in the 70s and 80s, but they are damaged from a house fire; heat and water. Sad.
Arjay
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Great idea, Rob to have a forum section for 'image archaeology', and my compliments for the highly interesting pictures you're showing in this thread!
The reason why I think a separate forum section makes sense is the fact that many old archives do not come with sufficient contextual information, and could benefit from other viewers' knowledge:
I have discovered a part of my father's film archives. It contains negatives starting from 1930, spanning all through the second world war until about 1948. Unfortunately, my father died in 1963, so I don't have an opportunity to get any background info.
The pictures were taken all over Europe, in pre-war Germany (that's relatively easy), but also in France, Serbia, Finland and Norway during the war. All pictures incidentally were taken with a Leica III that my brother is still using to this day (the history of that camera is a story in itself).
I was lucky enough to have a relatively complete archive of everything I photographed from 1962 till today...
The reason why I think a separate forum section makes sense is the fact that many old archives do not come with sufficient contextual information, and could benefit from other viewers' knowledge:
I have discovered a part of my father's film archives. It contains negatives starting from 1930, spanning all through the second world war until about 1948. Unfortunately, my father died in 1963, so I don't have an opportunity to get any background info.
The pictures were taken all over Europe, in pre-war Germany (that's relatively easy), but also in France, Serbia, Finland and Norway during the war. All pictures incidentally were taken with a Leica III that my brother is still using to this day (the history of that camera is a story in itself).
I was lucky enough to have a relatively complete archive of everything I photographed from 1962 till today...
oftheherd
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Glad you found them. It has been fascinating to view them. Hope to see more.
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Antti Sivén
Great pictures, Rob! I'm glad you found the negatives. I've only been to NYC once in my life, it was three years ago and I stayed at a hotel on 38th street. Your pics are from this very neighbourhood! I understand Hell's Kitchen was a wild place still in the 80's.
Michael Markey
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Really ,well they have no sense of time or place but this is the earliest.
Annotated by my father it came to me via relations in Mass USA.
I`m thinking late 1890`s `cause the lady on the back far left is my grandmother born 1883 and her small sister below her (Emily) was born 1890 and died 1906.
The father in the picture ,Tom Baker, was born 1846.
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Michael, you've got to start scanning those slides AND prints and posting them.
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Arjay, start posting. Perhaps the mods and the head bartender will open a new sub-forum for this if enough of express interest. I'll gladly moderate it if you, Keith, Michael or some other serious archivist doesn't volunteer.
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Antti, thanks. Hell's Kitchen has become rather gentrified. I think its heyday as a wild place was probably much earlier than the 80's, though it was certainly raw and tough then. It still has plenty of character, but nothing like it was when I shot these images.
Michael Markey
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Michael, this is great. You should post more. I especially like that someone annotated it. Penmanship is a dying art and who would know who's who in this photo without the notes.
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My wife couldn't sleep last night and she discovered the scan of her with the awful perm at about 2am while visiting my flickr page. She screamed when she saw it. Be careful! Actually, we both had a good laugh.
What including the embarrassing hairstyles
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