Message-ID: <000a01cb430d$93f1e310$0401a8c0@Jensen> From: "Don Jensen" <dnjkenosha@wi.rr.com> Subject: Re: Question old glass negatives Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:53:10 -0500
The time period covered by these photos is fascinating. Most Americans
don't know that the US and its allies, notably Great Britain, Italy,
France, Japan and a few others, intervened in the Russian civil war that
followed the abdication, and later murder, of Russian Czar Nicholas.
Lenin's Bolchevik Red Army battled the anti-communist White Army. When
Lenin established a communist government in October 1917, he quickly
entered into a treaty with Germany, taking Russia out World War 1. US
forces, and Allied troops, intervened to try to support the White Army
in 1918 and 1919. There were two "fronts," one, the Northern Russian
campaign, focused out of Murmansk and Archengelsk, and the other, the
Siberian campaign, much further east. There were serious battles,
casualties and deaths among American forces. Eventually the Red Army
prevailed over the White Army and the Allied troops left Russia. But
few people today realize that for thousands of US troops, fighting
didn't end on Armistice Day.
That one of your hometown boys fought in Russia and Siberia would be a
great story for your museum to tell.
You ask about "developing" glass plates. I presume you really mean
"printing" photographs from glass plate negatives that were "developed"
many decades ago. If so, I would contact a
camera store that still does custom printing. (Not your local drugstore
or Walmart that use an automatic photo printing machine) They should
be able to make black and white prints from glass plates. Ask around.
Or try a professional photography studio in your area. Depending on
the exact subject matter, these negatives could be well worth printing.
Don Jensen
BoD/Kenosha History Center
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Subject: Question old glass negatives
Our museum has just been given approx. 80 glass negatives. Does
anyone know how we get these developed, the value of this collection,
and whether we should get them developed at all?
They are all dated either 1919 or 1920 and are taken by a local
pioneer business owner when he was in the service, during World War I,
and stationed all over the world but most particularly in Russia and
Siberia. They look quite fascinating as we view them ourselves.
Thank you for your help.
Stone Lake Area Historical Society