By the way, I have thousands of old 'family' photos, spanning over a century, since there were several generations of photographers in the clan......Most of the photos have suffered the deteriorations of Time, and have required countless hours of 'photoshopping' scratches and decomposition of substrates.....Nevertheless, there remains .....thousands of 'negatives', many with serious 'damage' that have yet to be 'printed' or scanned to disk for later preservation......I've posted many of these, after 'clean up'....on FB....more to come, when I have the time and motivation.......including some ambrotypes and Daguerreotypes, that were in old folding cases.......many, alas, have no references to the names of the subjects in them.......after the early, lensless paper-veneered cameras became affordable, and photography more generally 'available' even in the remote farmlands......a plethora of fixed-pose portraits emerged.....some, fortunately, have hand-written information on their reverse sides....and later, some were sent, in postcard formats....with notes and messages...I'm cleaning and retouching many of these and 'storing' the images on my computer's hard drives.......some of the older acetate negative, alas, have 'stuck together' and have been suitable only for 'Art Projects', wherein the subject matter is more irrelevant, for some of my Blogs....such as this one...
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