This Tuesday, Glenn Galbraith will give a talk about his great-great grandfather Albert R. Stone. He was Rochester’s first newspaper staff photographer and a pioneering photojournalist. Glenn will discuss his family lineage and the story of how a collection of thousands of glass plates was saved by his grandmother. It inspired Glenn to re-photograph images …
I spent time over the last two weeks making a web page that may or may not be of help in dating old photos taken at photography studios. Photographers of Rochester; 1861 – 1946 was created from lists of that were in the business section of the Rochester city directories. I couldn’t find any photographers …
I have completed my project to scan all of my grandmother’s and mother’s photos. It took me 16 months and I ended up with about 2400 photos (1879 – 2010). I scanned all the photos at 600 dpi (dots per inch) and saved them as Tiff file. That file format is the best for saving …
Yesterday, I told you about the Historic Highway Markers that I took pictures of this summer. While I was gong around the County I decided to also take photos of churches, temples, etc. in the suburban towns. Or at least I took photos of all that I could find. Even with directions from Google Maps …