Wet Printing My Grandfathers Negatives

[timor]

Timor, it's 70 years from death. Not sure if you were joking or really wanted to know

Thanks. No, I didn't know. Since I have no problem with protecting my rights .

 

[timor]

I did a quick check. The word 'copyright' doesn't appear in the Ten Commandments. So I'm fairly certain it's something us silly mortals came up with.

Besides, I wired up the factory God used to create the heaven and the earth. I don't recall anything on the blueprints about copyrights. Nothing in the spec book either. So when God said, 'Let there be light' and turned on a switch I had wired for the occasion, everything then was pretty much public domain.

So we improve upon God. Clearly God is not a lawyer.

 

[vintagesnaps]

My mom has an old photo framed where they took chairs outside and obviously set up to take photos on their property. My dad found B&W film in a old camera, got it developed and it was my second cousins standing around in the yard. Guess they told the kids to go out and play and somebody grabbed a camera! lol

I'm kidding around but I like these, I love it when you slide the paper in the developer and the image starts to emerge. It must be cool to see the photos from the original negatives.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Hey Sparky's got connections, and we've got an 'in'! lol

 

[480sparky]

V:

 

[Gary A.]

Many places will not scan or print old negatives without proof of ownership.

How do you prove, other than with an affidavit, that you legally own the negatives?

 

[Gary A.]

Go Sparky go!!! Print your brains out.

 

[480sparky]

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I know this one was taken in Nov, 1944, as soon as the oldest (Back right) was 18 and could join the service.

 

[480sparky]

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I think this one is about as close to a 'formal' image of the kids there is.

 

[480sparky]

My grandmother, on left, with her sisters and parents.

 

[Dave442]

Nothing like watching those old images come to life on paper.

 

[480sparky]

Very blurry, and underexposed to boot. But it shows my grandmother doing what she loved....... picking up rocks, bottles, driftwood etc. for craft projects at home.

This is probably somewhere in South Dakota or Wyoming in the early 50's.

 

[Derrel]

These are really some fine old negatives!!! I LOVED that shot of the kids with the various types of bikes/trikes/scooters..soooo cool! What an awesome project this is!

 

[480sparky]

.........What lens are you using on the enlarger for that size film? You did not mention if you had also picked up a lens for the larger format negative.

I scored a 105mm off ebay a couple months ago to start printing my 6x7 negs. Yeah, I know... this size I should be using something like 150 or so. But until I get a 4x5 camera, I'll hold off getting the lens.

 

[480sparky]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand.................... No 10.

About the closest I'll see to their wedding photo, if this isn't it. The white spots are reflections of the light.

Their marriage was supposed to be a secret, as my grandmother was still in school, even though she was 19. She had to work so much to help support the family she missed a few years.

So the minister was sworn to secrecy. Problem was, his wife wasn't. Next morning, she spilled the beans to my great-grandfather. Since married girls didn't attend school, my grandmother had to drop out.

I have 1 Jan 1926 as their wedding day. But a trip to the courthouse last Friday has it a 31 Dec 1925. Maybe they said 1 Jan 'coz "That's when Father found out."!


Anyhoo... that's the ten I chose. I originally selected 42, and it was damned hard to narrow it down to these precious few. Tomorrow, I go album shopping so I can get them all packaged up and ready to send out to dad & his siblings.