{"id":34347,"date":"2026-06-13T01:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T05:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=34347"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:22:33","slug":"digger-odell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/digger-odell\/","title":{"rendered":"digger o&#8217;dell &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34348\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/digger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34348\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34348\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/digger-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a c1959 photo of a mechanical shovel in a Quebec iron ore mine<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. &#8230; the collector&#8217;s pal. Old photo collectors lust after old images like that at left, although at c1959 it is a bit too new in itself to be a collectible. Outdoor photos, especially of work equipment and scenes, were rare in the early years of photography.<\/p>\n<p>Initial photography equipment and media were far too slow so the majority of photos taken back then \u00a0are studio portraits.<\/p>\n<p>Our 2026 events have been fabulous to date. Next up is our annual July outdoors event, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/ts-also-means-trunk-show\/\">Trunk Sale,<\/a> to be held this year on July 12th at a new (for the Trunk Sale) location &#8211; on the grounds of the Legion Hall #101 in Long Branch (you may recall that our auctions are held at Legion Hall #101). A poster was pinned to this site recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8230; the collector&#8217;s pal. Old photo collectors lust after old images like that at left, although at c1959 it is a bit too new in itself to be a collectible. Outdoor photos, especially of work equipment and scenes, were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/digger-odell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[220,388],"class_list":["post-34347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","tag-photos","tag-trunk-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34347"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34357,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34347\/revisions\/34357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}