Found Photographs

[bob carnie]

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Jonathan,

Those are superb photos by your grandfather. My history background causes me to urge that you consider locating a historical society in Steubenville--and perhaps also the Ohio museum in Columbus--and donate sets of the prints in your grandfather's name. Those prints have significant historical value that will endure. They would be used for exhibits and even histories of the steel industry in that region. It would keep your grandfather's vision and work in the public eye.

Keith

[JosephBurke]

Re: Weirton Steel. Wow! I could look at images like these all day ! Excellent!
--Joe Burke

[Bryan Lemasters]

Jonathan, in your original post you have one image (2nd one down in right column) that includes a barge on the river. I think that this was taken from the mill at the northern end of Weirton. I would love to see a larger version.

Would also love to read some of the descriptions that your grandfather wrote!

[snay1345]

Bryan,

Thanks for the links. I'll send out some queries and see who bites.

So does that mean the steel mill is actually across the river in WV? All I know is that my grandparents lived in Steubenville from 1938-1963 while my grandfather worked there.

Jonathan

The photos you have look like the main steel mill that is about 3 miles long that snakes through weirton. And yes steubenville is directly across the river from weirton. There is a pretty nice bridge actually that connects the two towns.

[jcoldslabs]

A photo of my grandmother (on the left) and a friend in Berlin in 1936. Hard to imagine a casual tourist visit to Germany during that time, but clearly it happened. Yikes.





And the back side:




Jonathan

[Miguel Coquis]

...time dimension is surprising/unbelievable...amazing !!!
thanks for posting it !

[jp]

Someone lent me a wooden box of glass plate negatives just piled in there. They've been in an attic for who knows how long. This is a 5x7 glass plate. There were also many 4x5 glass plates. I've slowly been repackaging them into archival sleeves. I'd guess they were vacationers rather than soldiers judging by the fishing poles, bicycles, and storm shutters on the cottage.

[mdm]

Love those push bikes. We are lazy with our cars.

[Annie M.]

Women and their furs & men in their hats... typical Canadians

[jcoldslabs]

Looking over this thread it seems, at least to me, that the most consistently compelling photos have people in them while the scenics tend to be less interesting, unless you have personal knowledge of the locality that's depicted. I wonder what this means for those of us NOT taking portraits in our LF work, myself included. Will the landscapes and still life shots be of less interest in 100 years?

Jonathan