Found Photographs

[Iga]

10x15 cm glass plate
Igor.

[jcoldslabs]

My grandfather and great-grandfather in Atlantic City (I think) in the late 1930s.




Jonathan

[Leszek Vogt]

Hmmm, this appeared to be familiar. Despite the familiarity, several things were different...like the hanging boat or clothes style. I've worked out of AC for one year in late 80's.
But, since Sandy hit this place...now the entire place looks way different. Thanks for the memories, Jonathan.

Les

[Robert Brazile]

From a 5x7 dry plate negative picked up at a PHSNE show over the weekend:


FF-018 by rbrazile, on Flickr

Robert

[Art Liefke]

From 5x7 glass negatives my grandfather gave me...circa 1938
My grand mother seated and my mother standing.

[Rick A]

While chatting with the owner of an antique shop yesterday, he informs me his father owned and operated a studio in St. Marys, pa. and he grew up working in his dads dark room. He also had several dozen LF negatives that haden't either thrown away or sold off, and handed the entire lot to me, free. His only request was a print and return of one negative of his father sitting in his Jeep. Here are a couple of preliminary contacts of what I was given.



the first is his dad, the second was a photo taken by his dad.
I really need to clean these negatives, and my scanner.

[Tin Can]

I love all these old images.

Just think, most of the last 15 years will lose they pics forever.

[Rick A]

Found in the envelopes with all the negatives I was given

[Rick A]

Four more, 8x10 negatives. I spent most of the morning trying to clean these, then about 5 hours in the dark room last night trying to get a decent print from each. I still have a few more to work on.





Not too awfully bad considering the storage and rough handling they endured. First three are from the mid-1930's, documenting the rebuilding of the Kaul Memorial Hospital. The still life from 1962, originally shot for use in a documentary book about Stackpole Carbon Company, published by the photographer, Mark C. Lenze. I was given the negs by his son.

[djdister]

Four more, 8x10 negatives. I spent most of the morning trying to clean these, then about 5 hours in the dark room last night trying to get a decent print from each. I still have a few more to work on.

A dumb question perhaps, but are you trying to clean these from scans (in Photoshop) or directly on the negatives?