Original negatives- underrated? Show yours

[SAllen2556]

I sold all my baseball ones last year through Hunt. I scanned each one and felt that the actual negatives didn't have great value to me personally, especially since they were largely no-named players. But I love having the scans of them and cleaning them up in photoshop.

I still have a couple hundred left of weird stuff like of U of Michigan sports like tennis, golf, track and field, and soccer; boxer Jackie Fields, women amateur golfers, and a bunch of Detroit area people who made the newspaper for one reason or another. Don't really think there's much interest in them, but I continue to hold out hope. You do have to be very careful with them and they do degrade over time if not stored properly.


Bobby Jones



This is how they degrade over time:


Player's wives


Ann Pennington - old Zigfried Follies actress





Joe Judge

[mikejanesphotography]

Originally Posted by SAllen2556

I sold all my baseball ones last year through Hunt.
This is how they degrade over time:

I bought those, most - if not all - were restored.

Brearley Collection negatives originally.

[h2oya311]

Here's a few of mine - all Burke/Brace:

1936 Walter Alston:


1967 Johnny Bench:


1961 Lou Brock:


1939 Pee Wee Reese:


1940 Phil Rizzuto:


1960 Billy Williams:


I could certainly use some help getting better digital images of the Alston, Bench, and Brock.

[mikejanesphotography]

Love seeing Johnny in a Buffalo uniform, grew up going to the new stadium. Hoping to see him in a couple weeks. What do you mean better digital?

[horzverti]

Charles Conlon negatives - here are various years of longtime St. Louis Cardinals coach Clyde "Buzzy" Wares.

[horzverti]

Awesome shots Derek. The Rizzuto and Reeses are super!

[Forever Young]

Rookie

[mikejanesphotography]

Maybe someone knows the answer here, but with negatives from Charles Conlon, how did they end up on the market? I know from when John Rodgers bought the collection from The Sporting News and they were recently re-sold hundreds of them came up missing, are the ones out there the missing ones? If that's the case, was Rodgers legally allowed to sell them to begin with? Same with Brace/Burke, apparently Rodgers sold them off violating the agreement, so were those negatives on the market before Rodgers did that? He's being sued for selling them and missing payments, along with dozens of other things!

Just goes to show the damage one guy can do...

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by h2oya311

Here's a few of mine - all Burke/Brace

I could certainly use some help getting better digital images of the Alston, Bench, and Brock.

Derek,
Sweet grouping of images! I am especially fond of the minor league images of players who would go on to major league greatness. If by "getting better digital images" you mean finding a way to scan them at higher resolution than the images that were posted when you purchased them, please feel free to send me a PM for some suggestions.