[rollei_list] Re: Slightly OT: What did old period photo albums look like?
- From: John Jensen <jwjensen356@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:20:29 -0800 (PST)
My parents were married in the mid-30s. My father used a Kodak folding camera
using 616 film (or was it 116?). The film size was 2½" x 4¼. Contact prints
were the norm and used the adhesive corners for mounting (often coming undone
after many years). The album pages were heavy stock paper, always black.
John
--- On Mon, 1/3/11, Jeffrey L. Bromberger <jeffrey@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Jeffrey L. Bromberger <jeffrey@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [rollei_list] Slightly OT: What did old period photo albums look like?
To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, January 3, 2011, 7:29 AM
I hate bringing up off-topic things, but this sort of fits in...
I plan on taking some of my MF/Rollei photos and presenting them as if they
came from the era of the camera, say from 1930 until 1950. It will be
darkroom printing on real paper, etc.
The questions come on how to make the work feel like something my
grandparents would have been familiar with. What were the common page
sizes? How were these albums bound? How about print mounting technology?
I've searched on-line and in the antique dealer areas, I see old pressboard
covered, black construction paper books, bound with a cord or ribbon. Seems
to have no size standards. Some have leather covers.
So, what has everyone else done? Any idea where I can either buy a new
(made to look old) book?
FWIW: what were common print sizes back then? Was everything contact print?
j
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Jeffrey L. Bromberger
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