For my 14th birthday I got a box of 'stuff' from my Aunt Anna. She was in her 80's in 1959.In the box were 545 glass plate negs, 120 or so Reunion badges from the 7th Conn Volunteers, few rank badges, a hat for a small head & blue wool uniform for a guy who was much shorter than I am. He was 5'7" & I am 6'6", a gold-plated S&W long-barrel .45, and a few coins. Also included was a roll of 45-star flags. The negs were the most interesting, as Edwin Nelson Walkley (my great-granddad), was prolific & inventive. He built himself a softbox with 24 light bulbs in it and subsequently a slew of family portraits. He used a magnesium flash, Ansco plates with ISO 10, no light meter, a neck brace for portraits, and a few hand-painted backgrounds. Some few shots were double-exposures. This week's 'Train wreck' is a perfect example. Obviously he had forgotten to mark them, just as I did, 65 years later, more later.
Jan Faul
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 6:07 PM Andrew Davidhazy <andpph@xxxxxxx> wrote:
interesting post … comments in subject line instead of message body …. hmmmm wonder why this happened. Suggestions anyone?
Andy
> On Aug 22, 2020, at 1:13 PM, Herschel Mair <herschphoto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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