My newsletters from Leave A Legacy had to take a few months off since we have been short staffed for a while and we are blessed with lots of Legacy projects to work on. Here are several of the highlights!
Martha brought in a collection of slides to scan extra high resolution for printing and putting up in her parent’s home. Martha’s parents have passed on and since then Martha’s own home was burned in the High Park fire. This lone slides was mysteriously in the bottom of a folder for insurance. This folder was one of the few things she grabbed when leaving her home. We agreed it is priceless.
Bill brought in his “legacy in photos” to scan and make digital for him. He had them meticulously organized and labeled. We ended up photo scanning 6,000 photos into 367 folders. That was quite a downsize fitting all those boxes of photos onto a flash drive.
Scott brought in an old cassette to transfer to digital that was an oral history interview with his grandfather from a 1973 recorded by the Loveland Public Library (link to here a bit). Scott is going to share the mp3 file with almost 30 cousins. He talks about his life and Loveland history (he was a big fan of CO history). What a priceless memory to share!
We do a lot of work for Cyndy who is digitizing all of her family photos and other media. This time she brought in a reel of super 8 film and we transferred it to digital. It is a long lost film she did not know she had. All other films had been previously transferred to vhs and were from the 70’s.
Joyce brought in this picture taken by her brother. He has since lost the original and this is the only surviving copy. Joyce is having us make
Jeanette saw our window display about photo restorations and brought in a really damaged, old wedding photo. The ink on the photo was literally falling off crumb by crumb as it was sitting on our front counter while we wrote out Jeanette’s order. She was amazed at the results and is excited to share the reprints with her siblings.
Nann wanted us to scan and make a print from her negative. The negative was taken by her father. He went to Columbia University in the late 50’s and was very interested in photography. This is a photo he took of Central Park after a big snow storm. His wife loved the photo so much that she had it blown up and framed and mounted. She also gave a copy to every member of the family. Well at that time Nann’s nephew was just a little boy. Meaning his parents got a copy but he did not. Now he is the only person in the family who does not have a copy. He always points this out and was just remarking about it, giving Nann the idea to have a copy made for him. Nann decided to bring the negative to us and have a picture printed for her nephew as a gift for Father’s day! What a wonderful surprise for him. When Nann’s mother originally had this done many years ago, whoever made the photos actually processes the photo backwards. Meaning that all the photos that each family member has mounted shows the park bench on the left side. And if you would go to Central Park to this exact location you would find the bench on the right side, as depicted above, from when we scanned the negative.