There are many on-line catalogues containing old photographs of places. The easiest way to find them is to search Google (select Images, insert the place name and "advanced image search" with "greyscale" as the colour (avoids trawling through numerous modern colour images). Most images are low resolution, and require you to go back to the source to obtain a usable copy. Regretably, many of these sources are institutions, libraries and others. both public and private which claim to promote the study of history , BUT: * often have a long turnaround time * often provide only a CD or hard-copy print by mail (only a few offer to provide a digital copy by email). * Usually want a high price for the image * and despite the image being out of of copyright, also demand a high price for a licence to reproduce the image in print or video, or for the web, even if only to illustrate a personal family history. It would be nice if there was an on-line repository where people could donate copies of their own historic images of places, and where they can be made freely available to other researchers and storytellers. Just dreaming, I suppose. Richard Balsillie Jan Hunt wrote: > Last year there was a website given for archive photos which had been > released to the public taken by photographers in the early 20th century. > Many country town were covered. > > I remember one female photographer Ellen Lacey took many photos relating to > the GBH Sale. > > I did have it in my favourites but unfortunately lost it in my HD crash. > > Cheers > Jan > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > >