Awesome, I was hoping someone might recognise some of the locations. I remember when I was going through the photos I was Googling them to make sure the spelling was right. I could have dived into all sorts of interesting history from the results.
We're planning a trip to Melbourne (followed by Adelaide, Darwin and Sydney) in October so I'll get to see a couple of the locations myself. Cheers, Dave On Jul 30, 2014, at 3:58 pm, John Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Very interesting, Dave, thanks for posting them. I know several of the > locations quite well, as > some were taken within a few kilometres of where I live, and Lake Eacham is a > place I have visited ( > it is a perfectly round crater, either volcanic or meteoric in origin). > > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Mann > Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2014 9:31 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Empire Parliamentary Delegation to Australia, 1926 > > Darren's old photo find has finally spurred me into action... > > Back in February I scanned a box of old glass slides (B&W positives > sandwiched in glass) from the > Empire Parliamentary Delegation to Australia in 1926. My mother-in-law had > asked me if I could do > anything with them and I managed to rig something up with my medium format > film scanner (Minolta > Multi Pro). The slides are a strange size - about 83mm square with an image > up to 70mm square > (usually masked with a border). > > There are a handful of colour photos mixed in there which are not part of the > Australia collection; > those are Dufaycolor slides which are fascinating under a microscope but > utterly horrible to scan. > It looks like those ones were taken in NZ. > > I was wanting to put them online but with 72 files I wasn't really sure how > best to present them. > In the end I've taken a lazy approach and thrown them into a jAlbum gallery. > The photos are > presented in the order they were stored in the box. > > Note I haven't done anything about dust. > > http://www.multi.net.nz/empire/ > > The photo captions are mostly what's written on the slides, except for the > number which is their > position in the box. They might not be correct; being handwritten and quite > small they're difficult > to read. A book accompanies the slides but it's packed in a box somewhere. > If it contains more > info I'll update the gallery. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
