What a great idea!!! I think many of us have been in the sitution where we have old photos and not much more information to go on. I've been combing through my home town directories and gazetteers for info on photographers to see when they were in business to see if that would help narrow the timeframe during which the photograph was taken. I decided recently to put the analysis I've done on my website. It only covers a very small geographical area compared to the world but perhaps it will help someone else. I haven't put up all the info yet (everything in my life seems to be a 'work in progress' <g>) but if you want to add a link on your page to the photographers section of my site, that would be great. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tracefamilytree/locales/Kansas/Kansas .html#PHOTOGRAPHY Thanks for all your efforts, Susie _____________________________________________________ S u s a n H a s t i n g s **** Surnames: H A S T I N G S ~ W E L L S praeda@aol.com The "other" OZ, USA > X-Message: #1 > Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:42:05 -0500 > From: "Fraser Dunford" <fraser.dunford@sympatico.ca> > To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Website for finding photographers > > Last March I had indicated to the group that I would attempt to > set up a website to reference other sites and books that would help > in finding when and where a particular photographer worked. > I now have that site, or at least the beginnings of it. It is a very > large subject!! I put the site up yesterday and I would be happy to > have group members comment on it. If many of you say "Yuk", I'll > pull it. If many of you think it has the potential to be useful, then I'll > > get a decent URL for it and start promoting it. > <http://FindingPhotographers.homestead.com/files/FF- > FindingPhotographers.htm>. That unfortunately is a two line URL. > I'm still checking for broken links, but if you find any let me know. > I'd appreciate other links that should go in. A few of you > contributed links last spring but most of them came from a search > using Google and many hours in the Toronto Reference Library. > It is not my purpose to provide actual data on this site (I prefer to > link to the sites with the data) however if any of you have small > databases and no site, I do have some room. > Comments please!

Marlaina, In the period from about 1910 to 1925 cameras were sold that took a postcard-sized image, and photographers provided prints on postcard stock, so there are many personal snapshot images from that period. Mass produced postcards were often photomechanical prints, usually lithographs. Just a little added info that you might want to keep for your research. Hope this helps you in some way. Join Now! Subscribe: KYHeritageFolklore-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Terry Thacker Doing genealogy is like writing OUR own family Bible. Our ancestors are the ones that have came to pass, and our descendants are the ones to fulfill it.

I have a Bear Paw 1200 TA scanner, it will copy from slides or picture negatives. I really like it. > What do I do with all the old slides I have? I only > have a digital camera but will be getting a scanner > later. I'd like to get some of them downloaded into > my computer. > > Thanks, > Marlaina Fritz-Barr >

We have been adding steadily to the links and lists on the Index of UK Photographers at http://www.users.waitrose.com/~rodliffe There are links to Brighton photographers 1841-1910, Derbyshire Photographic Studios, & Sussex. There are new lists for Leicestershire & Rutland, Sussex - Hastings & St Leonards 1948. There is a complete listing of supplements to The Photohistorian, the periodical of the Historical Group of the Royal Photographic Society, and guidance on obtaining copies. We will soon be adding a section on famous photographers. If you are aware of any resources which may be of use to others, please let us know. Rosemary & Stan Rodliffe

The Post Card printing was from about 1870 to sometime in the 1930's. Long time E.Rodier wrote: >Best is a specialized slide scanner that takes several in a holder at one >time with software to adjust color and contrast. Much slower to use an older >or less expensive film/slide scanner that takes one slide at a time. Poorest >method is scanning expensive snapshots printed from slides. > >A good slide/film scanner allows a full page color printout from a slide or >film that has a mountain in bright sun and people in the shade hardly >showing any detail. >Elizabeth > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Marlaina Barr" > >>What do I do with all the old slides I have? I only >>have a digital camera but will be getting a scanner >>later. >> > > > > >==== VINTAGE-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== >Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; >http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

I have a Hewlett Packaard scanner "ScanJet 5370C" I can scan 4 slides at a time. Works great. I paid $299.00 for it last year. I have over 2000 family slides to get done before Christmas. Scan-cleanup, burn to CD, play on DVD player and lastly copy onto VHS. Most of my older relatives won't consider switching to a DVD player. As for darkroom work - I have never heard of anyone who could do more than 2 or 3 large format negatives - to paper in an hour. It's standup work and is slow. and many of the do-it-yourselp places do not have the equipment to do the old 620 or bigger film. Most of the colleges do and will let an experienced alumni use their facilities. If not experienced --- students will do the work for much less than a commercial lab. Good Luck Hugs Connie TheHobbyBarn@aol.com wrote: >Marlaina, > >If you are getting a scanner you will need one that can scan transparencies >in order to make your slides or negatives viewable to turn into jpg format. >They are also some companies that will convert the slides over for you for a >fee. Most of these charge so much per slide, and depending on how many you >have and the cost they charge could be the difference in letting someone else >do them or paying the higher cost for the scanner that will let you do it >yourself. Hope this helps you in some way. > >Join Now! >Subscribe: KYHeritageFolklore-subscribe@yahoogroups.com > >Terry Thacker > >Doing genealogy is like writing OUR own family Bible. Our ancestors are the >ones that have came to pass, and our descendants are the ones to fulfill it. > > >==== VINTAGE-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== >We have over 223 members of the Vintage-Photos Mailing List. Posting back >to the list helps the whole group, not just one person. If we work as a team, >we'll succeed as a team. > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Marlaina, My records indicate that Renslers in Cincinnati was located at the 527 Central Ave. address in 1914 and 1915. They were in business as early as 1907, but their address was 1039 Central Ave. up until 1914. Phyllis Gessert Garratt Marlaina Barr wrote: >I am hoping to find a time period when a Photo Post >Card might have been made. On the back of the photo >of my g.grandfather, Walter McKnight is a printed Post >Card: >Rensler's (this is the company name) >527-29 Central Ave. >Cincinnati, O >

Hello Listers, I am hoping to find a time period when a Photo Post Card might have been made. On the back of the photo of my g.grandfather, Walter McKnight is a printed Post Card: Rensler's (this is the company name) 527-29 Central Ave. Cincinnati, O This ggrandfather left shortly after my grandmother was born to parts unknown. I have no idea where he was from or where he went after the marraige. All I have is this post card of him. It was never posted or mailed so he must have given it to her or his wife at some time. He would have been born somewhere around 1900 (-10 years possible) and he is an adult in the Post Card. The post card looks pretty old to me, and I'm 50. Would anyone know the time period these kind of photo post cards were made? Thank You Marlaina Fritz-Barr __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com

Marlaina, If you are getting a scanner you will need one that can scan transparencies in order to make your slides or negatives viewable to turn into jpg format. They are also some companies that will convert the slides over for you for a fee. Most of these charge so much per slide, and depending on how many you have and the cost they charge could be the difference in letting someone else do them or paying the higher cost for the scanner that will let you do it yourself. Hope this helps you in some way. Join Now! Subscribe: KYHeritageFolklore-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Terry Thacker Doing genealogy is like writing OUR own family Bible. Our ancestors are the ones that have came to pass, and our descendants are the ones to fulfill it.

Best is a specialized slide scanner that takes several in a holder at one time with software to adjust color and contrast. Much slower to use an older or less expensive film/slide scanner that takes one slide at a time. Poorest method is scanning expensive snapshots printed from slides. A good slide/film scanner allows a full page color printout from a slide or film that has a mountain in bright sun and people in the shade hardly showing any detail. Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlaina Barr" > What do I do with all the old slides I have? I only > have a digital camera but will be getting a scanner > later.

I never did receive any replies to my query, although a number of folks asked me to share what I found out, so there is definite interest in the subject. Do-it-yourself photo labs do exist. In my area (Northern California) there are several. The one I chose (called The Darkroom) will teach me how to make photos from my negatives from the 1920's & 1930's for about $15. The lesson takes 1/2 hour. Use of the darkroom (chemicals etc.) is $10 per hour. Paper is 40 cents per sheet. He said it does not take long to learn to do it well and it is possible to do 40 or so negatives per hour (I have several hundred). He said that first I should make a positive so that I can see if the photo is worth making copies of. This is a heck of a lot cheaper than any of the custom developers I spoke with. They averaged $5 per 1 photo! Phyllis Gessert Garratt

Hello Listers, What do I do with all the old slides I have? I only have a digital camera but will be getting a scanner later. I'd like to get some of them downloaded into my computer. Thanks, Marlaina Fritz-Barr __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com

Dear List Members, With so many of you changing e-mail address I figured it was time to send instructions as to how to remove yourself from one address and then subscribe again with the new one. I have over 50 messages asking me to do this for members. If you know in advance that your e-mail address is going to change go to Password Central http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ ask for a list of all the Mailing Lists you are subscribed to. Don't forget to submit your request at the bottom of the page. When you get your e-mail in about 1 minute you need to print it out so you know what lists you belonged to so you can re-subscribe. From the e-mail you can unsubscribe yourself from any or all of the mailing lists. or Just send the word UNSUBSCRIBE to NAMEOFLIST-L-@ROOTSWEB.COM (Change NAMEOFLIST to the name of the list and change L to D if you are on the Digest List) When you are ready to re-subscribe all you need to do is send the word SUBSCRIBE to NAMEOFLIST-L-@ROOTSWEB.COM (Change NAMEOFLIST to the name of the list and change L to D if you want to subscribe to the Digest List.) If you loose your e-mail address and are unable to unsubscribe yourself, then let me know and I will help. You can re-subscribe yourself to the list with the above instructions. I appreciate your help and thank each of you for helping to make our list the success it is.

Joy, the URL is broken, which is a common problem with long ones in e-mail messages. Open the message. Click on EDIT|EDIT MESSAGE (or whatever you may have that is similar). Then place your cursor at the end of the highlighted part of the URL, and press DELETE. This will bring the bit below (in normal type) up to the end of the highlighted URL, and you will see it all become highlighted, ending with "html". Then click on the newly highlighted URL and it will open where it should. Lance -----Original Message----- From: joy adrian [mailto:philadrian@lvcm.com] Sent: Sunday, 11 August 2002 10:36 AM To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Website for finding photographers I copied and pasted this in my web browser and cannot reach the webpage Please help! What am I doing wrong? Joy A. in Nevada > http://FindingPhotographers.homestead.com/files/FF- > > FindingPhotographers.htm ==== VINTAGE-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 2002-08-02 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 2002-08-02

Thank you for compiling this information and placing it online. It's a wonderful resource. Maureen Taylor www.taylorandstrong.com Contributing Editor, Family Tree Magazine -----Original Message----- From: Fraser Dunford [mailto:fraser.dunford@sympatico.ca] Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 5:42 PM To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Website for finding photographers Last March I had indicated to the group that I would attempt to set up a website to reference other sites and books that would help in finding when and where a particular photographer worked. I now have that site, or at least the beginnings of it. It is a very large subject!! I put the site up yesterday and I would be happy to have group members comment on it. If many of you say "Yuk", I'll pull it. If many of you think it has the potential to be useful, then I'll get a decent URL for it and start promoting it. <http://FindingPhotographers.homestead.com/files/FF- FindingPhotographers.htm>. That unfortunately is a two line URL. I'm still checking for broken links, but if you find any let me know. I'd appreciate other links that should go in. A few of you contributed links last spring but most of them came from a search using Google and many hours in the Toronto Reference Library. It is not my purpose to provide actual data on this site (I prefer to link to the sites with the data) however if any of you have small databases and no site, I do have some room. Comments please! ==== VINTAGE-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== We have over 223 members of the Vintage-Photos Mailing List. Posting back to the list helps the whole group, not just one person. If we work as a team, we'll succeed as a team. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Fraser: Just a few comments. First, I suppose I'm flattered that you have "borrowed" my background from Baltimore City 19th-Century Photos <http://freepages.hobbies.rootsweb.com/~ruppert/>. It was one I created myself, and although I certainly wouldn't have objected if you had asked to use it, I was surprised to find it in use on your new site. Secondly, if you're going to use this background, I have found that it is preferable to employ a heavier style font, as it is difficult to otherwise read the text. I have always used Bangle in bolded format on the Baltimore City 19th-Century Photos site. You have a lot of useful info included, however the opening page is a little "dense" ... just a bit too many words. I'd condense it or reformat it to break it up a bit. Thanks for the reference to my site. Gary B. Ruppert 11 August 2002 Baltimore http://home.att.net/~g.ruppert > Content-Type: text/plain > > VINTAGE-PHOTOS-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 53 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Website for findi ["Fraser Dunford" <fraser.dunford@s] > #2 Re: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Website for f [SMcKenzi@aol.com] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from VINTAGE-PHOTOS-D, send a message to > > VINTAGE-PHOTOS-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > To contact the VINTAGE-PHOTOS-D list administrator, send mail to > VINTAGE-PHOTOS-admin@rootsweb.com. > ______________________________> X-Message: #1 > Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:42:05 -0500 > From: "Fraser Dunford" <fraser.dunford@sympatico.ca> > To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <3D53F0DD.27557.78409B@localhost> > Subject: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Website for finding photographers > Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > Content-description: Mail message body > > Last March I had indicated to the group that I would attempt to > set up a website to reference other sites and books that would help > in finding when and where a particular photographer worked. > I now have that site, or at least the beginnings of it. It is a very > large subject!! I put the site up yesterday and I would be happy to > have group members comment on it. If many of you say "Yuk", I'll > pull it. If many of you think it has the potential to be useful, then I'll > get a decent URL for it and start promoting it. > <http://FindingPhotographers.homestead.com/files/FF- > FindingPhotographers.htm>. That unfortunately is a two line URL. > I'm still checking for broken links, but if you find any let me know. > I'd appreciate other links that should go in. A few of you > contributed links last spring but most of them came from a search > using Google and many hours in the Toronto Reference Library. > It is not my purpose to provide actual data on this site (I prefer to > link to the sites with the data) however if any of you have small > databases and no site, I do have some room. > Comments please! > ______________________________> X-Message: #2 > Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 17:20:38 EDT > From: SMcKenzi@aol.com > To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <198.b2a18b3.2a858c26@aol.com> > Subject: Re: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Website for finding photographers > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Some of my online friends and I have a large number of old family photos from > Nebraska and Germany. We have made quite a bit of progress identifying many > of them over the last couple of years. I do think that your website is great. > It must have taken a great deal of effort to get it to the point where you > are now. Congratulations and thank you for taking on this project. > > You may want to add links to a couple of websites that I have found helpful > for pictures from Nebraska. A list of early Nebraska photographers can be > found at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/ancestors/photogindx.html< This > is a page sponsored by NEGenWeb Project. The Hutchings Photo Railroad Car is > featured at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~nerailrd/photocar.html<. > > I also recommend Maureen Taylor's books on photography. I am just getting > into a book written by Maureen Taylor called "Uncovering Your Ancestry > through Family Photographs" it is very helpful. > > Are you interested in adding links to collections of unidentified photos? I > would be glad to have my collection added to that list if you do. > > I have bookmarked your new site and look forward to watching your progress. > > Thanks, Sharon McKenzie > >

Frazer, Your web site has some great info on it. I did find one link that didn't work and that was the Photographers in United States for New Jersey. You might want to check your URL for that link to the page. Here is the URL that it brought up when I clicked on the hyperlink. http://ibweb.princeton.edu:2003/libraries/firestone/rbsc/mudd/online_ex/reflec tions/%20%20case4.html Join Now! Subscribe: KYHeritageFolklore-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Terry Thacker Doing genealogy is like writing OUR own family Bible. Our ancestors are the ones that have came to pass, and our descendants are the ones to fulfill it.

Frazer ,,, <hats off .. wide bow > ,,, very very useful site .. lots of good information .. book marked.. ..will add to my links page ( when the my upgrade is completed ) ,, PLEASE ..keep building the content .. the type of information is great. One small suggestion ,,, darken the font some.. us blind bats have a hard time reading those letters ... > http://FindingPhotographers.homestead.com/files/FF- > > FindingPhotographers.htm Joe Bott DeadFreds Genealogy Photo Archive http://www.deadfred.com

Nice site Fraser and thank you for adding a reference to our Index of UK Photographers. Rosemary & Stan Rodliffe -----Original Message----- From: Fraser Dunford [mailto:fraser.dunford@sympatico.ca] Sent: 09 August 2002 22:42 To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Website for finding photographers Last March I had indicated to the group that I would attempt to set up a website to reference other sites and books that would help in finding when and where a particular photographer worked. I now have that site, or at least the beginnings of it. It is a very large subject!! I put the site up yesterday and I would be happy to have group members comment on it. If many of you say "Yuk", I'll pull it. If many of you think it has the potential to be useful, then I'll get a decent URL for it and start promoting it. <http://FindingPhotographers.homestead.com/files/FF- FindingPhotographers.htm>. That unfortunately is a two line URL. I'm still checking for broken links, but if you find any let me know. I'd appreciate other links that should go in. A few of you contributed links last spring but most of them came from a search using Google and many hours in the Toronto Reference Library. It is not my purpose to provide actual data on this site (I prefer to link to the sites with the data) however if any of you have small databases and no site, I do have some room. Comments please! ______________________________

I copied and pasted this in my web browser and cannot reach the webpage Please help! What am I doing wrong? Joy A. in Nevada > http://FindingPhotographers.homestead.com/files/FF- > > FindingPhotographers.htm