Sure thing. Phillips, Glen C - The Ontario Photographers List (1851 - 1900) - Iron Gate Publishing (1990) ISBN 0-921818-04-1 The second is (1901 - 1925) , 1997, ISBN 0-921818-14-9 Iron Gate is at 1110 - 95 Fiddlers Green Rd, London, Ont, N6H 4T1. Phone 519-472-5572 The books are pretty good but not complete as Phillips would be the first to point out. I use them all the time. Be glad to do lookups for people. Date forwarded: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 08:04:39 -0700 Date sent: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 07:04:36 -0800 From: Phyllis Garratt <pgarratt@ix.netcom.com> Subject: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] List of Photographers To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com Forwarded by: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com Send reply to: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com > Fraser, Would you mind sharing the title and name of the authors of > those two photographer books you just mentioned (if you know them)? > Thanks so much! > > Phyllis > > > ==== VINTAGE-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== > List problems? Contact the Vintage-Photos -List Mom > kathleenburnett@earthlink.net Use Kathleen as the subject line for > your post To learn more about my world visit > http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > ============================== > Ancestry.com--Your #1 Source for Family History Online--FREE for 14 > Days http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1238 >

Fraser, Thanks for the book information, and the look-up offer as well! Phyllis

> In an ideal world > the list would also say where the negatives or customer records went > when the company ceased business (if it was somewhere other than the > bin!). Wouldn't that be wonderful!! It would be a very, very large list. If anyone has queries about Ontario (Upper Canada or Canada West) photographers, I might be able to help. There is a list -- two books worth in fact -- that gives only names, locations, and dates. In particular if you have a photographer from Peterborough County, contact me. I think I will be writing the book on photographers from that county.

Fraser, Would you mind sharing the title and name of the authors of those two photographer books you just mentioned (if you know them)? Thanks so much! Phyllis

Kathleen: Thanks for the great tip! Never knew about this even though I use Google all of the time. I was amazed when I typed in Baltimore City 19th Century that quite a few images from my website popped up! Thanks again! Gary 27 October 2001 Baltimore http://freepages.hobbies.rootsweb.com/~ruppert

There was a photo studio called JEROME'S in high st. north EAST HAM LONDON e6 up until at least the 1960s regards con_roy----- Original Message ----- From: "John Parker" <john.parker2280@ntlworld.com> To: <VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 8:11 AM Subject: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Vintage Photographer ? > > > Taken from the Scottish - Glasgow list > > Can anyone help this lady please? > > Snip> > Hello Everyone, > > This is a shot in the dark but I'm looking for a Jerome Photographers. I > found an old picture that I don't know the name of the person on it. On the > back it says Jerome and the date 1940. Has anyone heard of this company or > how to find out if they existed? > > Sincerely, > > Clancy Mulholland > Email: jclancy@idirect.com >snip > > > John Parker > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.291 / Virus Database: 156 - Release Date: 25/10/01 > > > ==== VINTAGE-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== > Checkout the other lists being watched over by your List Mom; > http://mailing_lists.homestead.com/lists.html > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 >

Tom, I can help with one name. This info came from "A Directory of London Photographers 1841-1908" by Michael Pritchard. > David Hains, Kensington, 28 Upper Phillimore Place, Kens. W. 1867-87 Originally from Lock and Whitfield's Studio. Regards, Jim Fuller

I have the same problem!! I have tried several search engines with a variety of different keywords but can't find a list of professional photographic studios and their dates of operation. In an ideal world the list would also say where the negatives or customer records went when the company ceased business (if it was somewhere other than the bin!). That may allow us to identify unnamed relatives. Here are some of the photographers whose pictures I have: Lambert, Weston & Son, Dover & Folkestone, Henry Knight, St Leonards-on-Sea, David Hains, Kensington, Mr Nelson, Bayswater, E Swarthwaite, 174 Regent Street, London W, E Swift & Son, 126 Bold Street, Liverpool, Walter A Smith, 18 Brook Street, Ipswich. all second half of 19th century in the UK. Maybe the local and county record offices would have some information but I haven't had the time to try them yet. Tom Kidman -----Original Message----- From: John Parker [mailto:john.parker2280@ntlworld.com] Sent: 26 October 2001 23:11 To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Vintage Photographer ? Taken from the Scottish - Glasgow list Can anyone help this lady please? Snip> Hello Everyone, This is a shot in the dark but I'm looking for a Jerome Photographers. I found an old picture that I don't know the name of the person on it. On the back it says Jerome and the date 1940. Has anyone heard of this company or how to find out if they existed? Sincerely, Clancy Mulholland Email: jclancy@idirect.com >snip John Parker

Most archives would use some sort of unique reference number. Examples include SMPTE UIDs for moving image and TV clips, accession numbers in libraries etc. These can be as simple as an ordinal starting at 1 or perhaps better would be year/number where the year is know and 0/number if unknown. That number would then go on the back of the photograph much the same as professional stufios put their reference on backs and then go into your databse. The database would include all the metadata about the picture, details of physical storage location and in due course pointer to scanned image and/any other formats of the same image. The database allows you to find the photo by subject, date etc, points you to the location then when it is returned that same location pointer tells you where to put it back. The location pointer would be as simple as file volume, page/sheet, xy co-ordinate or posiiton on the page. If some are given away not to be returned then where they went, i.e. who to and when, can be recorded as the location pointer. -----Original Message----- From: Clint Crocker [mailto:clintcrocker@home.com] Sent: 27 October 2001 01:40 To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Organizing I have acquired a box of photos, commingled, from my grandmother and my mother. Also a collection from my mother's sister. That together with a couple of hundred photos from my father. 1. I have identified all subjects that I can. My aunt assisted with hers. 2. I made black and white negatives of all I could identify and wanted to be sure to preserve over a long period of time. (a couple of great shots of me lying on a bassinet with my bare butt reflecting the sunlight) 3. All have been put into archival storage pages, with pockets, back to back. 4. Later I will scan and preserve. Problem: need suggestions on how others would approach labeling each photo so 1, it can be located and 2, returned to its proper pocket. It is not impossible some will be given to others which would cause a re-organization. I have and use a ZIG pen to write on the back, edges, to identify people. This pen is acid free, archival quality, non-bleeding.

I don't mind taking a look at it... I'll see if I can enhance the insignia and match it to any of the uniforms in my book. Jen > -----Original Message----- > From: KWKanaka@aol.com [mailto:KWKanaka@aol.com] > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 10:37 AM > To: VINTAGE-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [VINTAGE-PHOTOS] Military photo circa 1800's > > > I have a photo of my great grandfather in an apparent military > uniform. Only > the cap appears to have an insignia but is very faint. Is there > anyone who > would like to attempt to discover timeframe, etc.? > > > ==== VINTAGE-PHOTOS Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, > political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds > for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett > kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > To learn more about my world visit http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >

I have a photo of my great grandfather in an apparent military uniform. Only the cap appears to have an insignia but is very faint. Is there anyone who would like to attempt to discover timeframe, etc.?

Hello John Parker, Just read your email. Have you seen my Parker family album on my Web site http://www.restoringphotos.com ? My Parkers were originally from Lincolnshire. When you get to the first page click on Carte de Visite then go to page one. There are about 48 pages. My Parker family members are toward the middle and back of the album. If anything looks interesting drop a line to me. Bob Peyton bobp@beasuccess.com http;//www.restoringphotos.com

Estimated 15,000+ scanned images organized here with no numbering system except for same-day pictures like recent weddings. Special events and trips might have dozens of pictures taken on a variety of cameras. Originals or notes for finding oversize items are in archival sheet protectors and mostly kept with family group sheet computer printouts from a genealogy program with a scrapbook. Scans need to be organized with *progressive* permanent backup sets stored in multiple locations, not just one copy on a hard drive or one copy on a CD-Recordable that might get scratched. Choice of genealogy programs is determined by the favorite method for organizing pictures NOT the most complex method for organizing text-only sources. The pictures don't move and sources may be incomplete in a GEDCOM. Each individual and marriage can have a scrapbook with "all available" pictures and scanned source documents but it is convenient to have about 50 items for each topic and time period as sections are reprinted after editing. Plan a separate family file (or at least a scrapbook file) for each group of about 250 inserted images. If pictures are very small for family tree charts, it might be practical to have 500-750 images. I haven't worked with more than 100 pictures linked to a genealogy program. Some contacts have claimed up to 2000 images but those projects are hard to move from one computer to another. It is a lot of work to reorganize hundreds of pictures if the chosen method doesn't scale to include all images available over time. Scanned images are named (mostly) with date first and kept in multiple Windows folders. 1900-01-01NameTopic.jpg. Images for family projects printed in sets are scanned to the "right" size for the purpose, not archival size cropped later. Some people keep up to four copies of each image -- archival, family, web and thumbnail. One Internet contact claims 4 GB of scanned images. Family project size images are usually saved as standard JPG and 480-600 pixels at the time of scanning. About 2000 average size images of 200 kb might fit on a CD-Recordable along with the family data and research notes. As long as images are grouped in sets that belong together and in approximate order by date, the exact order of originals may not be all that critical. Estimated dates change as one sees a computer-printed scrapbook and gathers more details from relatives or research. Change the date in the genealogy scrapbook, sort by date and reprint when the previous copy has too many pencil changes. Distribute "draft" copies of computer genealogy scrapbooks to anyone interested and hope they will share more information. Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clint Crocker" > Problem: need suggestions on how others would approach labeling each photo so > 1, it can be located and 2, returned to its proper pocket. It is not impossible > some will be given to others which would cause a re-organization.

Hello List, I am also looking for new ways to organize boxes of photos. From late 1800's to present. I have started one system and it is some work. I make 2 photocopies of each picture (small enough to fit on the right side of a small letter envelope, some are about 1"x2", 2"x3", etc. I have 2 envelopes for each picture. One envelope is the normal 61/2" by 3 5/8" the other is an "invitation" envelope 4 1/4" by 5 1/2". I glue the photocopies on the front of the envelopes (they're easy to find) and write on the envelopes 1. identification 2. who, where, when I received the picture. In the normal envelope are my extra copies for exchanging and a small piece of paper with who I sent copies to. In the invitation envelope is my original in archive sleeves and the negative if I have one in a archive sleeve. I know that it is very wrong to store the original and negative together, but I have another set of negatives for my pictures in a binder in archive sleeves that I keep separate. I have stored my extra copy envelopes in the photo/video boxes that you can buy now. I have made my own dividers out of very heavy card stock for the head of each family and the children. When someone wants copies of pictures to exchange it has been very easy to find the extra copies to send. Office Depot and Office Max have a great file storage box that the invitation envelopes fit in and I have done the same with the dividers here and store these boxes in a fireproof safe. I bought a copy stand for my camera last spring so I can take pictures of the pictures and will have a negative for each one. I am open for new suggestions. Cindy Shaw >

Taken from the Scottish - Glasgow list Can anyone help this lady please? Snip> Hello Everyone, This is a shot in the dark but I'm looking for a Jerome Photographers. I found an old picture that I don't know the name of the person on it. On the back it says Jerome and the date 1940. Has anyone heard of this company or how to find out if they existed? Sincerely, Clancy Mulholland Email: jclancy@idirect.com >snip John Parker --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.291 / Virus Database: 156 - Release Date: 25/10/01

At 09:41 AM 10/26/01 -0400, you wrote: >Is there any device with a light source that enlarges the negative >image? Any suggestions for any way to make my task easier? I'm I've successfully viewed negatives that I've scanned on my flatbed scanner with my lightbox inverted over the negs. I use a couple of thin rubber bands on the glass surface to ensure it doesn't get scratched by the metal sides of the lightbox. (Make sure to put as much distance as possible between the scanner/lightbox combination and your harddrive. I don't think fluorescent lights and their ballasts should be in close proximity to computers.) I do this because my scanner didn't come with a slide adaptor (contrary to salesweasel information) and subsequent attempts to locate one anywhere in North America failed. Had I ordered the available adaptor when I made the scanner purchase, I would have found out in time to return the scanner. Instead, I waited nearly two years to start playing with photos & negatives, having concentrated on text duping and OCR first. Next scanner will be negative capable, but I am disappointed to find that there are no dedicated slide scanners to handle other than 35mm negs. Linda <http://www.king.igs.net/~bdmlhm/>

I have acquired a box of photos, commingled, from my grandmother and my mother. Also a collection from my mother's sister. That together with a couple of hundred photos from my father. 1. I have identified all subjects that I can. My aunt assisted with hers. 2. I made black and white negatives of all I could identify and wanted to be sure to preserve over a long period of time. (a couple of great shots of me lying on a bassinet with my bare butt reflecting the sunlight) 3. All have been put into archival storage pages, with pockets, back to back. 4. Later I will scan and preserve. Problem: need suggestions on how others would approach labeling each photo so 1, it can be located and 2, returned to its proper pocket. It is not impossible some will be given to others which would cause a re-organization. I have and use a ZIG pen to write on the back, edges, to identify people. This pen is acid free, archival quality, non-bleeding. Phyllis Cloyd wrote: > I finally have my really old photos organized and under control. Thanks -- Clint Mailto:clintcrocker@home.com G.C.Crocker 3425 Kegley Meadows Court NE Olympia, WA 98506-2996 Ph/Fax (360) 438-6691 C rocker, B laylock, F etterley, S argent, T rinterud B ateman, I ler, G ladbach, S trong

In a message dated 26/Oct/2001 9:42:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, pcloyd@earthlink.net writes: > Is there any device with a light source that enlarges the negative > image? Any suggestions for any way to make my task easier? I'm > desperate. A microfiche viewer works well. I have also scanned them and turned them into positive images with good results. Jim.

Thanks for the great suggestions on viewing negatives. I'm going to experiment with my scanner first, but also intend to buy the 10X loupe the next time I am out shopping.

Don't know of any easy way to manage negatives except by contact sheets in a home darkroom or scanning with a transparent media adaptor or specialized slide scanner. A flat light box about 5x7 inches would be better than a sloping slide sorter but wouldn't show a larger image. A flatbed scanner with adaptor for oversize negatives isn't available in Canada. Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- > I finally have my really old photos organized and under control. But > now I am faced with organizing all of my pictures & negatives from the > 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, etc. > > I need to go through the old negatives to be sure I have prints for all > of them. It is very hard on the eyes looking at the oldest negatives > and even worse trying to look at 35 mm strips. I tried using an old > light box designed for sorting slides, but that isn't much help.