Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]beautiful locomotive ric > On Feb 27, 2016, at 9:55 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > > More from the "Motherlode," the boxes of Kodachrome slides taken by my Mom > between 1949 and the 1980s. In the summer of 1949, my Mom and her friend > Sue took a train excursion from NYC to the west coast, going through New > Mexico, the Grand Canyon, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mom did not have > a 35mm camera at the time--she took her father's old folding camera with > leather bellows. The people on the trip had various cameras, including > folders, a TLR and 35mm camera. They all exchanged photos, so I have > pictures from many people. I believe the 35mm "Kodachrome Duplicate" > slides were taken by a woman named Betty. I believe that these 35mm > photos were what inspired my mother to take up 35mm herself when she > returned to New York. She bought her Bolsey B2 shortly thereafter. > > There are 10 new photos of California in 1949 in this set. Start here: > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/24691520023/in/dateposted-public/> > > Be sure to see the last two, which show street scenes of San Francisco and > Chinatown. > > To pick and choose, here is the first page of my flickr feed: > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/> > > Enjoy! > --Peter > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information