Hi Joe ... Have you thought about getting one of those photos and trying to restore it?
Shel " ............... " > [Original Message] > From: Joseph Tainter > My mother died last summer at 87. As a memento, my father's Christmas > card this year has a photo taken of her in 1935 at Dominican College, > San Rafael, California. The posed photo shows three small groups of > women talking in front of a college building, and one walking toward the > door. There are nine women in the photo altogether. (Dominican was then > a women's college. I don't know if it still is.) Why am I reporting this > here? Because the photo was taken by Ansel Adams. In his hungry days he > apparently had a business doing photos of students. The shot at > Dominican was for a brochure, and was arranged by a friend of his at the > college, Sister Thomas. > > I became serious about photography over 40 years ago, and all this time > neither of my parents told me about this. > > I just talked to my father, who is still in California. He says that he > has 2 or 3 copies of a newspaper in which the photo appeared and will > send me one. Unfortunately all he and my mother clipped was the photo. > My father doesn't know which newspaper it was from.
