My dad has been scanning in a huge collection of old negatives and today he showed me this of my great-great grandfather. ~1920

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A fisherman from the 1920s

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Mugshots of Victorian Era Child Criminals, 1870s

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Canada's First Nations people - 1910

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My dad - 1950’s, somewhere in South America

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Immigrants arriving in the US through Ellis Island from 1906 to 1914 captured by photographer Augustus Frederick Sherman

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Possible never before seen Billy The Kid and Doc Surlock photo.

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Possible never before seen Billy The Kid and Doc Surlock photo.

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My 3rd Great Grandpa, sometime in the late 1800s.

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Peasants of the Russian Empire, 1909-1915. These are NOT colorized. They were taken using a special three-color filter technique over 100 years ago.

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i have one final batch of dry plate negative scans to share

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Immigrants arriving in the US through Ellis Island from 1906 to 1914 captured by photographer Augustus Frederick Sherman

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Nomadic storyteller carrying his belongings circa (1897)