More old photos, rescued and scanned from glass plates from the 1900s

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Back in the late 80s I rescued several boxes of glass quarter plate negatives from the shed and Andersen air raid shelter in the garden of my wife's grandmother's house. The photos were taken by my wife's grandfather sometime around 1908 to 1912. Snails and slugs like to eat fungus on emulsion so quite a lot of damage. It was only when I got suitable scanning equipment that I started to work on cleaning and conserving the nearly 200 plates. Around 2012 I worked on some of them to produce images meant to resemble pages of a family album to use as inspiration for an online creative writing project. Have just remade and uploaded the Youtube slide show used to share them in better quality. There is a link to the writing website on the video but just in case it is here https://ozlandbard.blogspot.com/2012/08/ and for one particular picture https://ozlandbard.blogspot.com/2012/07/

 

[PeterSpencer]

Fabulous, glad you managed to recover and restore the images. I'm working on a family archive of negatives, from a remote branch of the family. I hope you have better luck than I in identifying people.

The photographer had a wonderful eye for a picture.