This is a fabulous find! His Chicago photos are mainly of the South Side, which is rare. A lot of them are from the neighborhood where Annsan lived as a child and where I hung out as a teenager -- South Shore. The pics of Jackson Park bring back many memories. Since they were taken before I was born, there are some things there I never saw, like the Japanese houses on wooded island that were torn down during WWII. Fascinating.
This is a huge collection. The Chicago pics are just a beginning.Lots of great stuff. It will take years for anyone to see it all. Thank you so much! Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Lasse Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just in case it hasn't been mentioned on the list before, i'd like to point > you to a very insteresting photo collection, available on the net since a > few years back. > > It's the life time collection of color slides shot by one Charles W. > Cushman. What's interesting is that he very early started shooting color > slides. He traveled quite a bit in various states and captured many scenes > which will show the evolution into modern day U.S.A. He lived mostly in > Chicago and in his later years also in San Fransisco, why there are > particularly many photos of these cities. > > He also photographed a lot during a number of trips to Europe. > His earliest shots are from 1938, his last shots are from 1969, a few years > before he passed away. > > Funny thing is that there is no indication that any of his pictures ever > were published nor that he was looking for getting them published. > > Recently I spent a week's nights browsing trough the whole collection by > year. It was like watching a great documentary in many parts. Fascinating. > > I picked this shot from Sep. 17, 1938 in Victoria British Columbia for you > as an example. > > http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P01449.jpg > > > If you click the following link you'll get to a smaller version with info on > the picture as well as other links which will give you an idea of how the > collection is organized. > (Note: in some instances, like this one, the image has been restored from a > discolored original. In those cases you can also find the original by a link > at the bottom right corner. I gave it a go at a few of them and thought I > could do a better restoration than presented there.) > > http://tinyurl.com/33kltf > > > This is a link to the index (Home) page of the collection: > > http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp > > Enjoy, > Lasse > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
