Historical photo display device available

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Monette Bebow-Reinhard (moberein@yahoo.com)
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:41:53 -0700 (PDT)



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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:41:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Monette Bebow-Reinhard <moberein@yahoo.com>
Subject: Historical photo display device available

Oconto County Historical Society is seeking a new home for a free-standing,
  wing-revolving photo display stand.  If anyone would like a photo of it, or rough dimensions, let me know.  We've tried it out in the Coppe r museum but it's just too big for that little room we have.  I believ e it holds 9 removable wings that are double-sided.

Monette

________________________________ From: Vern Magee <vmagee@wi.rr.com>

To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu Sent: Mon, August 23, 2010 5:11:58
 PM Subject: Re: Question old glass negatives

I know just a little a bout them...someone saw some advertised on Ebay that were photos of the Lake Geneva area.  I didn't want to pay what they were asking and wait ed until the bidding was over and eventually purchased them for half the

price they were asking.  This was recently and I have not had a chance
 to do anything with them.  A retired local photographer said he has a
 way of printing them in probably an 8 x10 size.  I intend to look at them closely and print a few.  I know the Yerkes Observatory in Willia ms Bay has the second largest collection of glass negatives.  I believ e the Smithsonian has the largest.  They have some framed between glas s and they are quite attractive, however I have been told that could rui n them in time being exposed to the light.  I think I will find some t hat I don't care about and frame them like that just for interest and di splay.  If I get to this project soon, I will report about the printin g and framing.  There are always too many things to do, as many of you

already know....

Vern Magee, President Geneva Lake Museum

TN CMCD@aol.com wrote:
> Our museum has just been given approx. 80 glass neg
atives.  Does anyone know
>how we get these developed, the value of th
is collection, and whether we should
>get them developed at all?
> The
y are all dated either 1919 or 1920 and are taken by a local pioneer
>bu
siness 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 yo
ur help.
>  Stone Lake Area Historical Society

      



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