my brother was working construction at a house, i have to get the exact addy from him… but it was all being torn down and everything to be thrown out, but he grabbed a box of glass negatives. they are in boxes and are 4x5 glass negatives… ive had them for about 3 or 4 years now, and i just got a new printer with a scanner and am going to start scanning these… ive seen pictures of familys, locations, with little inscriptions of a buffalo address, a buffalo house, pictures of streets with cars that look like model Ts, really old stuff… one of the negative said “1920” …
some of the names i saw were McCray, and Watson…
here are just a couple scans i did, others dont scan well at ALL, but out of the first 4 scans, these came out… in photoshop u have to adjust brightness contrast and hit invert of course since it originally scans as a negative.
its going to be very cool to uncover some local history via these old photographs
some LOVELY PORTRAITS, more to come soon once i scan a ton of them… probably about 150 or so negatives, cant wait to see what pics will be showin up
sounds cool. I have a friend who knows a lot about these kind of pictures/negatives and looks for similar things at antique stores. I can let you know if they are worth some money or not.
i used to work at the Buffalo Club, the rooms were named after prominent buffalo and national people (we had 2 presidents of the us as presidents of the club) and there is a “watson” room there
i THINK it was clarence watson… ill have to see, i was basically holding a bunch up to the light, scanning is time consuming and annoying but i think it will be worth it
