handsome_b._wonderful

Thanks for all the replies.

I think all of the photos are from southern California. Im not sure what paper he was at during the time. Ill ask my folks for when I see them over Christmas. Good idea about the historic society. Ill call around and see if they can help out.

 

I have been wearing gloves so I dont get my prints on them. Where can I order those acid free envelopes at or should I be able find them locally?

 

I want to scan the negatives with a transparency scanner vs. making prints. Though I may try to make prints of these curling ones. Out of all of them only like 30 were curling or had stains. None of them are brittle. I separated the bad ones from the others and the smell went away. Here are some pictures of the bad ones. You cant tell from the picture but the one thats curling the emulsion side has a dimple texture kinda like a golf ball.

 

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/9528/curlingko9.jpg

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/7511/stainedvl9.jpg

I separated out the ones that are shrinking and curling. They were mixed in one bundle ? I don?t think the others smell quite so pungent but I'll go thought thoes too. The bad ones have three-square marks in the corner and no writing at all.

My grandfather was a photographer in the early part of his career (40?s & 50?s)

for various newspapers. He passed away a few years back and I found a couple

thousand 4x5 negatives. They smell like vinegar and some are warped but most

look to be in good shape. Some say ?Kodak Saftey? and all have various notch

patterns on the top. I scanned one on my 5-year-old $50 scanner but it gave me

a crap image.

Most of the pictures seem to have historical significance so I would like to

archive them when I get a proper scanner. But I don?t think I?ll get to it for

a few years. So my question is how should I store these until I get around to

it? Currently they?re in some cardboard boxes half of the lot is in bundles

about 500 each and tied with butchers twine the other half in manila envelopes

about 5 per envelope.

 

Thanks.

Handsome