Remember our post about
looking at negatives? Since we lack the proper equipment for scanning negatives, we had to oh so carefully send them to our publisher for scanning. We used FedEx to send in a batch, then sat back and waited…
A couple of weeks ago we got scans back from our publisher. It was like magic to see all those small, reverse images turned into photographic scans. Most of them scanned beautifully, but some were duds. To be honest, we were thrilled to get so many fabulous images. These negatives have been sitting around for years in boxes—some of them were completely destroyed—we had no idea how the negatives we selected would look.
Here’s a super cute shot of a school patrol from the late forties.
Obviously we are happy to have these images for the book, but beyond that there is the thrill of preservation. Who knows what will become of these negatives. How much longer might they survive? But now there are digital copies of some of them. We have copies, and look forward to presenting Mark with copies. Those will live on and that is a good thing for history.
