the cheap and dirty way to make digital pics of those for an audience like us: Open up a new document in your word processor of choice, providing a lighted, white background. Hold the slide up to the screen, and take a picture with your digicam. The image should come out reasonably clear!
WWI smoked glass slides
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Either way it would be a good thing for you to try to get some provenance on those slides, figure out who took them where, when etc... And while I would hold on to the originals, I would consider going to a reputable photographic outfit and having them scanned in high resolution and put on a CD or DVD, then offer a copy of the CD/DVD to both the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, and since those seem to be mostly of Belgian troops, to the Belgian embassy to put in their National Archives.
Been able to establish approx value. Will be posting in the exchange this eve.
Better in the hands of an appropriate collector I think. Some are already damaged from being stored over the yrs. Need a bit more care than I can provide.
Again thanks for everyones assistance with this.
Mike.
Better in the hands of an appropriate collector I think. Some are already damaged from being stored over the yrs. Need a bit more care than I can provide.
Again thanks for everyones assistance with this.
Mike.
They were likely images shown as part of a propaganda show either to civilians or military personnel. It was in vogue to show images of Belgium outside of Belgium as well because of rumors of war atrocities committed by "the devil," Kaiser Wilhelm. Belgium became somewhat of a symbol not least because of Germany's violation of international law by invading France through a sovereign country.
MCJP;
I will gladly scan these for you, free of charge....History should be preserved.
I have top notch equipment that will do very hi-resolution scans of glass negatives or positives plates. I can handle up to 4x6 inch glass plates no problem. Any positive printed material up to 9x14.
I have been busy scanning and restoring glass plates from my grandfather's collection, all from the late 1800s and the first decade of the 1900s.
Let me know
John
I will gladly scan these for you, free of charge....History should be preserved.
I have top notch equipment that will do very hi-resolution scans of glass negatives or positives plates. I can handle up to 4x6 inch glass plates no problem. Any positive printed material up to 9x14.
I have been busy scanning and restoring glass plates from my grandfather's collection, all from the late 1800s and the first decade of the 1900s.
Let me know
John
You may very well be right, if you look at the typed, rather than handwritten caption of the right side of the map one it reads "extraits du journal La Nature reproduction authorisee", for those French-challenged it translates into "extracts from the magazine/journal "La Nature" authorised reproduction. In any case once you take into consideration that an awful lot of those achives were "lost" in one way or another over time it would not be unusual at all for at least some of those snapshots to turn out to be the only surviving copies in the world .... From a collector's standpoint it makes them more desirable, and therefore more expensive, from an historical standpoint it makes them priceless .... Think having an unpublished photograph of JFK kind of unique/desirable/priceless.
Or do you have the negative reversed?
Slides are not negatives but any slide that is reversed will look to be a mirror image. Perhaps the writing on the one side was forward for the narrator using an old projector but should be placed down on the scanner.
