Archaeology at Home or Jackpot: I found the negatives

[luiman]

Yes, about Paris and its architectural heritage is true what you say. Although about ten years, many historic buildings are occupied by fashion brands that chase libraries, restaurants, etc... Since the 60's there was a strong emphasis on conservation. The destruction of old Paris took place in the second half of the nineteenth century by Baron Haussmann, who razed all the original core of the city ('Cité'). I still have to scan my old film about Paris, but I certainly will share the most interesting pictures...

Luigi

on the nude photos. I have a few kodachromes. but you won't see them here, as married that girlfriend.

Luigi, I hope you'll share some of those Paris images (and here, all this time I assumed your screen name only meant "yes man" and now I discover your first name is Luigi; silly me).

I think one the fortunate things about Paris is that the city seems less bent on wantonly destroying its architectural heritage, so probably we've had more buildings disappear here than you have.

 

[healyzh]

BTW, I totally understand the joy of finding film that was lost. For years I was sure I had photographed the USS Bonefish disaster in both 2D and 3D, but I could never find the 3D slides. Then I found two rolls of print film (which should have never been loaded in a ViewMaster camera). Here is one of the Bonefish pictures done in cross-view 3D.

While it is great to have these historically important photo's back, what meant the most to me was this single image of a very dear friend.

So far I've scanned one of the two rolls and placed it in a flickr set.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088@N03/sets/72157622574764288/

 

[robklurfield]

Wow. Zane, these are great.

 

[healyzh]

Thanks Rob, I shot a lot of 3D in the late 80's while in the Navy. I think I've managed to scan this one roll of ViewMaster format images, and 5 Realist format 3D pairs. One of these days I need to get the roll that goes with this scanned, it looks to have some interesting shots, but this roll had the most important ones. Unfortunately either the camera was having issues or I goofed up, as can be seen in the one image.

 

[robklurfield]

Zane, I've never played with stereo. I'm sufficiently challenged by "mono."

The Bonefish images are really interesting and a great historical document.

 

[Michael Markey]

Some from my late father.
Taken in India and Burma `42 to`44.
The first is of a downed plane and the second of the ordinance that it carried.
The last ...a bit of street .

 

[robklurfield]

Michael, keep posting. These are amazing.

 

[Michael Markey]

Will do.
Again from `42 /`45. My assumption has always been that he took these with the 1930 Hawkette which is sitting on the shelf behind me now.It was a promotional camera given in exchange for cigarette coupons.

 

[robklurfield]

that snake scares me.

 

[Michael Markey]

Again some from the same era. I poured over this album as a child.It all seemed so exotic in `50`s Britain.
Dad was reticent as so many of his generation were but he annotated the album with place names and dates.
Clearly a high point of his life.

 

[Michael Markey]

End of snake ,Rob.

 

[robklurfield]

Gosh, Michael, he didn't scare me enough for your remove him. I can deal with snakes in pictures, just not king cobras lunging at me in the flesh.

End of snake ,Rob.

 

[raid]

Keep 'em coming, if you have others left.
These images look super cool.

 

[Keith]

As a matter of interest I PM'd Stephen last night politely asking about the possibility of a sub forum for these sorts of archival threads:

Hello Stephen,

I posted a series of threads recently based around re-discovered archival immages from seventy five years ago! It's been very popular and several members have suggested a sub forum in the critique/salon forum would be good for these sorts of things in future ... would this be possible!

Please!

Regards ... Keith

nope,

I doubt there would be enough posting in that forum to justify it.

Stephen

Disappointing response!

 

[Michael Markey]

Some more from India and Burma.
The old/new , the old and the hoped for future.

 

[Muggins]

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.

Michael,

I think your date is spot on - the "leg of mutton" sleeves on the ladies dresses are classic late 1890s fashions (to be honest, they're the only fashion I can reliably date - I can guess others, but those sleeves are just too distinctive to miss).

Is it me, or do a number of the heads not quite match the bodies? If that is the case, I wonder if not everyone could get to the studio together, and the latecomers were photographed separately and pasted in? I've not previously seen it in family photos, but I've seen it in many sports team photos from the 1920s and 1930s.

I've got a number of scans of my great-grandfather's quarter-plate negs from around 1910, and also some print scans largely of country houses around 1910-1920, as well as a WW1 hospital and its inmates. However, I just don't think I have the time to put many up here - there were THIRTEEN albums of the latter, and I was pretty sick of them by the time I finished...

Adrian

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[Michael Markey]

Thanks Adrian.
Heads not matching bodies
Did they have PS in 1890 ?
I don`t know .
It`s a fasinating thought.Something to think about.
I have three others from around that period (well 1915).
Nice to have a bit of confirmation of the date .
I wish I`d asked my grandmother when I had the chance

 

[charjohncarter]

One from my dad, 1938.

 

[charjohncarter]

And one from me, this is Jim 1962:

 

[sepiareverb]

Great to see the NY I lived in Rob. I was there 82 - 90.

I'd not have to do much digging to find negatives- all mine are filed in numerical order starting in 1980, those from before that are in a couple of boxes, though I do have a box of negatives from my grandparents house that I've not gotten to conserving yet.