Family Fun

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Another box of slides

This is from a picnic or other social gathering in the US. I'm pretty in the dark about who's who beyond the obvious.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Here are the first two boxes of slides from Granddad's stint in Korea. I can't figure out the chronology of these, so I'm just going to grab interesting boxes and give them the next number, so there will be a lack of continuity.

The first batch of slides is dated from 1960, and I think the second batch is earlier, judging by the look of the slides.

Capt. Langston's box #1: Korea 1960

Capt. Langston's box #2: Korean

Slide project, blog #2

We stayed up until 2 am last night working on these, so here is another batch of Bob Davidson's slides.

Davidson photos lot #3

Friday, August 22, 2008

Slide project, blog #1

So-

My grandfather Ross and his amazing wife Velda are moving, and he gifted me his complete slide collection and 1950's slide projector. Carol already has part of her grandfather's collection of slides. We even have our own collection from our vacations pre-digital photography. Remember then?

So finally armed with enough excuses, I decided to purchase a slide/film scanner. I was quickly able to enlist the support of my brother Robert and Carol's brother David. So we bought a Nikon Coolscan V and we're going to ship it around the country until we don't have any more slides or negatives we want to scan. Seems like that will keep us busy until we die.

Here are the early results.

The first set of Granddad's slides - a magazine called "France 2" - has pictures of Paris and others I don't recognize. I'm not sure, but I think these photos are from 1952.

Ross' Slides - "France 2" Magazine

Here are two small sets of pictures from the Davidson Family Collection. It's a pretty random selection of family pictures. For those who don't know, the Davidsons are Carol's maternal grandparents.