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Subject: [Leica] [OM] IMG: Digging Into the Past
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 09:00:39 -0600
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Thanks for looking and? commenting, Nathan.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 1/18/2019 11:30 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> The way those old photographs hold up is impressive. I have photographs 
> from the 1920s and 1930s, inherited from my father, which have held up 
> similarly well. On the other hand, the ones from the 1950s and 1960s have 
> faded badly, probably reflecting the work ethic in post-war Communist 
> Poland.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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>> On 13 Jan 2019, at 00:18, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>>
>> Recent discussions of older photos led me to dig into some images I 
>> scanned quite a few years ago, from a collection of negatives and prints 
>> we inherited from my wife's grandmother.  This sepia image is from the 
>> middle to late 1930s, when my wife's Dad provided a meager income for his 
>> family by following the Midwest fairs and celebrations with his portable 
>> studio, selling "4 for a Dime" direct positive portraits to the fair 
>> visitors.  The studio could be folded and carried on the trailer seen in 
>> the background.  Herb is posing holding on to the awning frame that could 
>> be covered in bad weather.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20090417-Herb+with+Portable+Studio.JPG.html
>>
>> Here is an actual-size copy of one of the seventy-year-old 
>> Direct-Positive photos, which received no Photoshop treatment at all.
>>
>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Gene+01.jpg.html
>>
>> -- 
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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