Is it a negative or a positive

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A fellow purchased an old building in Rossburn Manitoba, all he was after was the lot. When the wrecking crew was dismantling the building which at one time was used as a photo studio.

 

Stuffed in between the walls some 2500 glass negatives were discovered, this type of medium used to make a photographic print is by contact, the glass with the image is placed over a photo sensitized paper ( dark room or under cover ) if the image were exposed in the darkroom an artificial UV light source such as that produced from a carbon arc lamp, an outdoors exposure by sunlight.

 

Both the image captured on glass  and the paper which will receive the print are both enclosed in a light tight box, on a very bright sunny day the box would be opened for a few seconds, on a cloudy day it might take as long as several minutes to make the exposure.

 

The glass used to capture the image as seen through the view camera is actually a positive.

 

One long cold winter Pat and myself digitized these images, the pictures posted are first and last. The studio pictures are very boring with the same background setting. From the 2500 images there may have been 30 notable images.

 

Life in the early days, enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 29, 2019 by bcgold

[troutbum70 857]

GREAT STUFF thanks for shearing them

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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ukrainian Pioneer Mass Grave Site (Municipality of Rossburn)

In May 1899, a group of Slavic settlers in what is now the Municipality of Rossburn were camped at this site. They were stricken with scarlet fever and 42 children and three adults died. They were buried here in a mass grave.

 

A stone monument erected at the site by the Parkland Ukrainian Pioneer Association gives their names. It was designated as a municipal historic site in 1990.

 

Monuments at the site commemorate the 50th anniversary of Ukrainian settlement in Canada in 1941 and the 100th anniversary of Ukrainian settlement in Canada in 1991.

 

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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Swistun Buddas (Municipality of Harrison Park)

In 1889, the first Slavic settlers arrived at this site in what is now the Municipality of Harrison Park from the railhead at Strathclair. During the first pioneer decade, families lived in “buddas” made of tree trunks, branches, sod, and native hay while their homesteads were being identified. In 1978, two authentic buddas at this site were reconstructed by Michael Swistun with assistance of the Parkland Ukrainian Pioneer Association.

 

[bc.gold 3,403]

We've misplaced several of the DVD's, anyhow I've gone through the list once more and collected a few more images to post for your enjoyment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pullstart 62,791]

I don’t know if they are negatives or positives, but they are awesome!  Thanks Mr. Gold!  By the way, those ladies look mighty comfortable in their traveling clothes!

[PeacemakerJack 10,738]

Looking at these old time photos and how they were discovered, kinda makes me wonder if a 100 plus years from now a handful of SD cards with current pics on them would even be usable/recoverable.  

 

What a different time of life and yet not that long ago!  Thanks for sharing

[The Tuul Crib 7,336]

 Nice stuff. Makes you wonder why someone would put something like this so that they are hidden. Thanks for sharing!

[troutbum70 857]

Did not want them found for 100 years.

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1 hour ago, The Tool Crib said:

 Nice stuff. Makes you wonder why someone would put something like this so that they are hidden. Thanks for sharing!

 

The photographers building had changed ownership several times when it changed hands the first time the new owner had also acquired what had been abandoned by the first occupant.

 

Water, sewer and garbage services not yet installed as public utility's and its doubtful the town even had a landfill site.

 

For those of you that have purchased a house built within the last 20 years don't be surprised to find a wall cavity filled with drywall scraps as it has become common practice for dry wall crews used as a method of disposing of scraps.

 

The gypsum used to make drywall board has been classified as hazardous waste the disposal fee $200 ton bites into the crews beer money.

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5 hours ago, PeacemakerJack said:

Looking at these old time photos and how they were discovered, kinda makes me wonder if a 100 plus years from now a handful of SD cards with current pics on them would even be usable/recoverable.  

 

What a different time of life and yet not that long ago!  Thanks for sharing

 

Most everything we do these days is digital, you can use any digitally produced image to print off a negative to be used for contact printing.

 

The digitally produced negative is placed on top of a photo sensitized paper or other medium, when exposed to a UV light source the paper accepts the image.

 

The beauty of digitally produced negatives is that they're easily modified in their virtual environment before printing.

Gelatin silver prints

To achieve a long lifespan, gelatin silver prints must be thoroughly fixed and washed. Besides rendering the image insensitive to further light exposure, fixer converts undeveloped silver salts in the emulsion into products that can easily be washed away. Effective fixing and washing removes all unexposed silver salts and leaves only a small amount of residual fixer. Any significant quantity of fixer (thiosulphate) left in the print after washing will cause the image to deteriorate over time. Many other factors play a critical role in the long-term stability of gelatin silver prints. The temperature and relative humidity of the storage environment, and the air pollutants to which a silver image is exposed are three of the most important factors.^[3]

Toning can increase the longevity of silver-based prints by replacing or coating the metallic silver with more inert metals such as gold, silver sulphide or selenium.^[4]

Platinum, palladium and other inert metals

Images composed of more inert metals, like platinum, palladium and gold are less prone to decay than those in silver. Amateur Photographer's Dictionary of Photography said "Owing to the chemically inert nature of platinum, a print so made is far more permanent than any print having a silver image can be".^[5] Indeed, the Victoria and Albert Museum's Conservation Journal states that "...the majority of the deterioration seen in such prints is usually associated with the supports, which are often yellowed and brittle, rather than the actual image."^[6]