{"id":7045,"date":"2016-12-06T10:28:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T14:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=7045"},"modified":"2016-12-05T14:40:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T18:40:06","slug":"lost-america-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/lost-america-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost America Found"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Portrait – from a Glass Plate found c1960 outside Camera Craft in Barrie.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Today we have a multitude of old photos – nameless people and places, Some faded, some still pristine like the sample at the left.<\/p>\n

When I was a kid in Barrie, Joe Waterer had a camera store downtown called Camera Craft. One day (c1960) I noticed stacks of glass plate negatives by his store next to his garbage bins. Needing a small strip of glass for something I was building, I took two home with Joe’s approval.<\/p>\n

Although a bit soft as was the fashion back then, the plates had such good contrast that I kept them. Either Joe or more likely his predecessor had exposed the plates\u00a0in a studio setting. In another century (this one) I scanned the plates and reversed them to show the positive view of the young gentleman in the portrait.<\/p>\n

If you are fascinated by old images, have a look here at a site my friend George Dunbar discovered. The site is called \u00a0Lost America Found<\/a>\u00a0and is managed by Alan Radecki<\/a>\u00a0of California on Google’s blogsite.com which seems to be replicated here on Google’s Canadian blog site, blogspot.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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