Quoting David Mann <[email protected]>:
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.
A really interesting collection. I've only flicked through them
quickly and will take a closer look later.
I probably can't help much with unknown locations but No.49 is
Flinders Street Railway Station and No.55 may be the old Central
Australian railway (outback South Australia) but that's a guess.
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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