From: "Mary Forer" <director@marathoncountyhistory.org> Subject: RE: Question old glass negatives Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:48:35 -0500 Message-ID: <DLEGKBBKNOPIJGAHFEIOAEEFENAA.director@marathoncountyhistory.org>
We also had a large collection of glass negatives (over 500). We ended up
scanning all of them. It's great having the digital images to look through.
We originally scanned them at 600 dpi and saved them as .tiff images. This
gave us our archival copy. Since these images are quite large, we made
another copy of the digital image at 300 dpi and saved them as .jpg. That
makes it much easier to review and use the images.
Mary
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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