Custom Work on 100+ Yr Old Photo Developed from an Old Judge Glass Plate Negative

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

makes me wish I had though of paying someone to develop the glass plate negatives I had of Jack Johnson and Abe Attel!

For future reference it is quite easy. In the past you would either make a contact print; laying the negative on the paper then exposing and printing, or putting it in a holder, placing in an enlarger and making a larger print. With modern technology it is not that difficult anymore. A glass plate negative can be scanned on a pro model flat bed scanner like the Epson V850 or Expression 12000XL. It can be done at various resolutions (dpi's). Once you have the file (jpg) it can be printed on digital, preferably archival, paper. It can also be printed on traditional silver halide paper. One of my photo labs, Digital Silver Imaging in Belmont, MA can take a digital file and print it on regular photographic paper. They are not cheap, but the results are incredible. Interestingly, you can see the exposure of the clip that held the glass plate negative against the paper in Tanner's photo. It is the white mark in the lower left that looks like a collar stay.

Here are a few scans using my 12 year old Microtek pro scanner:

Magic Lantern slide of one of the heats for the 100m dash at the 1896 Olympics.

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Glass plate negative circa 1932. The man on the right, George Calnan, took the athletes oath at the opening ceremony of the 1932 Olympics. Winner of 3 bronze medals in fencing (1 in 1928, 2 in 1932). A lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, he died in the crash of the dirigible U.S.S. Akron off the coast of New Jersey in April 1933.

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[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Michael B

For future reference it is quite easy. In the past you would either make a contact print; laying the negative on the paper then exposing and printing, or putting it in a holder, placing in an enlarger and making a larger print. With modern technology it is not that difficult anymore. A glass plate negative can be scanned on a pro model flat bed scanner like the Epson V850 or Expression 12000XL. It can be done at various resolutions (dpi's). Once you have the file (jpg) it can be printed on digital, preferably archival, paper. It can also be printed on traditional silver halide paper. One of my photo labs, Digital Silver Imaging in Belmont, MA can take a digital file and print it on regular photographic paper. They are not cheap, but the results are incredible. Interestingly, you can see the exposure of the clip that held the glass plate negative against the paper in Tanner's photo. It is the white mark in the lower left that looks like a collar stay.

Here are a few scans using my 12 year old Microtek pro scanner:

Magic Lantern slide of one of the heats for the 100m dash at the 1896 Olympics.

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Glass plate negative circa 1932. The man on the right, George Calnan, took the athletes oath at the opening ceremony of the 1932 Olympics. Winner of 3 bronze medals in fencing (1 in 1928, 2 in 1932). A lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, he died in the crash of the dirigible U.S.S. Akron off the coast of New Jersey in April 1933.

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All you're doing is making me feel worse for not doing it! The Johnson was a huge 8 x 10 glass negative too, would've yielded great results I bet. The two Attels were more like 4 x 6ish

[mouschi]

Thank you for all the kind words, people! It is definitely a far cry from the new Canseco stuff I've done, and a new skillset is needed to make this work with 19th century stuff, but I'm just wholly in love with this time period.

I didn't post about this one here, but this may be fun for some folks to take a look at - it involves a 1914 Cracker Jack Christy Mathewson ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0g_pnfonPM

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

All you're doing is making me feel worse for not doing it! The Johnson was a huge 8 x 10 glass negative too, would've yielded great results I bet. The two Attels were more like 4 x 6ish

Do you have any scans or pics of these at all? If so, PM me and I'll see if there is anything I can do

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by mouschi

Do you have any scans or pics of these at all? If so, PM me and I'll see if there is anything I can do

fairly decent image, let me know if emailing it would be better

[mouschi]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

fairly decent image, let me know if emailing it would be better

If you have a bigger picture, you can send to tanmanbaseballfan@gmail.com - what a super cool image hiding in this negative!

[Bigdaddy]

Tanner, that is the coolest thing I've seen all day week month year!

Not only the design of the holder, but the execution of the end product. Bravo!

[Piratedogcardshows]

Very cool display Tanner!

[todeen]

Originally Posted by mouschi

If you have a bigger picture, you can send to tanmanbaseballfan@gmail.com - what a super cool image hiding in this negative!

I am so impressed with your creation. Tip of the hat, sir!

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[The-Cardfather]

Very nice!