Inherited Historical Pictures
Aaron Miller ·
Dec 19, 2011 at 4:54am
As mentioned in Claire's thread, I inherited a handful of photos taken during WWII. My grandpa was stationed in India and served as some sort of food scout to make sure our soldiers didn't get sick or conned. I don't know who took these pictures.
This is the first time I've used Picasa, but I think it will work. Here are all 20 pictures I inherited.
My family inherited plenty more photos dating back to the days before color photography, as well as vintage postcards, but these are the only ones my relatives scanned and copied for me. I'll see about sharing more later if I can.
Does anyone else have some old historical photos which you would care to share with the Ricochet community?
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Jul '11
Re: Inherited Historical Pictures
I have a whole Pacific theater photo album from a Navy radioman. About 100 pics from Saipan, Phillipines and Tokyo. Many grisly death trenches, some prisoner pics, some war torn family pics in all places with kids and best of all he was aboard ship and very close for the Japanese surrender and those ones are great. No clue how to convert to digital though.
My favorite is a big sign detailing the Bataan death march atrocities endng with big letters saying "kill the bastards". That just sort of sums up the nature of that conflict.
Edited on Dec 19, 2011 at 3:33pmJun '10
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I have a wonderful picture of my father sitting on the side of his Sherman tank somewhere in France in the summer of 1944. It's priceless.
May '11
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Please put these photos up on the net. Even the most mundane photo contains info of historical interest.
Mar '11
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A heartfelt plea - People, do *NOT* throw away your negatives! They scan *SO* much better than prints, and they really don't take up much space.
I have thousands of 35mm negatives going back 30+ years, they all fit in two 3-ring binders on a shelf. Spent a year or so running them through a film scanner, then went to my mother's house to get negatives for even older family pictures and she'd thrown them all away in a cleaning project some months earlier. I'm amazed talking to friends and co-workers how many of them have also disposed of all their old negatives, and it seems like all fairly recently. I guess the conversion to digital photography has convinced people to purge all the remnants of film from their lives.
Edited on Dec 19, 2011 at 4:29pmDec '10
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All I get from your link is the Upload page. ;-]