Dave, Look forward to the pictures. Regards, Bob S. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:52 AM, David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 27, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Derby Chang <der...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >> Took the afternoon off for a rather special treat. The State Library is >> putting the pics from the Street show into their collection, so we >> photographers were asked to sign some papers. Of course, we could have done >> this by email, but where is the fun in that? The bonus was the curator of >> photography taking us on a viewing of some tasty gems in the archives. I >> thought we would be there about an hour. We were there for almost three. >> >> http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/13/08/library/index.html > > Looks like you could spend a lot more than three hours exploring those > archives. I get the impression the curator is passionate about his job, too. > > I'm about to start a process of scanning a box of old slides from a 1926 > visit to Australia of the Empire Parliamentary Delegation, whatever that was. > I'm not 100% sure how we came into possession of these, only that they've > come through my wife's family. I would assume it came via John Barr who was > one of her ancestors: he was a member of the NZ Legislative Council at the > time so it's possible he met with the delegation. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barr_(New_Zealand_politician) > > There's a commemorative book of prints as well but I don't know if they're > just prints of the slides. I hope they are as they're labelled much better. > > The slides are sandwiched between glass which was taped together. There's a > bit of card in with the film which forms a frame: I think the film is about > 70mm square and the frame crops this to about 6x7 format. The glass measures > 83mm square. > > I wasn't sure I'd be able to scan them at all - taking them apart is out of > the question as I don't want to risk damaging them; I'd rather leave that job > to professional archivists. Luckily I've managed to bodge up an arrangement > with one of my 6x9 film holders... > > I might post a few as I go along, if they're interesting enough. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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