Well, you've got a couple choices. If you have the negatives you
could take them to Eastern Photo Lab on Acushnet Ave (Rt. 18), in the
northern end of New Bedford, and see whether Roland has the gear to
print them. He might also be able to do the entire restoration, even
if the prints are kinda rolled up.
If you can get them flat, (you might try to gently soak them in tepid
water for a while, then clip them carefully with a clothespin to a
line in the shower until they drip dry, and then dry them between
many layers of newspaper, with books on top and below) you could then
take them to someone with a flatbed scanner who can scan them, either
as a whole item or in pieces and then reassemble them digitally. If
you get them flat and dry you can even take them to Wal-Mart and put
them in their machine - I think it's a Kodak machine. From that
you'll get a scan and the software with the machine has some repair
possibilities for dirt, scratches and bits of emulsion that have
chipped off, also color correction. Then you can get a nice print
from the machine.
If you get them wet and they flatten, however, it would be best to
dry them in a print dryer, which Roland also might have.
Once you figure out who's in them, and get some sense of their place
in history, that might lead you to someone who can incorporate them
into a historical collection or something like that. Making any
money off of them is complicated by copyright considerations and
possibly by the relatives of the people in the photographs. It would
take a bunch of research to figure out about that.
