On Aug 27, 2013, at 11:36 PM, Derby Chang <der...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Took the afternoon off for a rather special treat. The State Library is > putting the pics from the Street show into their collection, so we > photographers were asked to sign some papers. Of course, we could have done > this by email, but where is the fun in that? The bonus was the curator of > photography taking us on a viewing of some tasty gems in the archives. I > thought we would be there about an hour. We were there for almost three. > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/13/08/library/index.html Looks like you could spend a lot more than three hours exploring those archives. I get the impression the curator is passionate about his job, too. I'm about to start a process of scanning a box of old slides from a 1926 visit to Australia of the Empire Parliamentary Delegation, whatever that was. I'm not 100% sure how we came into possession of these, only that they've come through my wife's family. I would assume it came via John Barr who was one of her ancestors: he was a member of the NZ Legislative Council at the time so it's possible he met with the delegation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barr_(New_Zealand_politician) There's a commemorative book of prints as well but I don't know if they're just prints of the slides. I hope they are as they're labelled much better. The slides are sandwiched between glass which was taped together. There's a bit of card in with the film which forms a frame: I think the film is about 70mm square and the frame crops this to about 6x7 format. The glass measures 83mm square. I wasn't sure I'd be able to scan them at all - taking them apart is out of the question as I don't want to risk damaging them; I'd rather leave that job to professional archivists. Luckily I've managed to bodge up an arrangement with one of my 6x9 film holders... I might post a few as I go along, if they're interesting enough. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
