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oook, indeed

mmahaffie — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:16:20 -0800

The past can be a fascinating place. An Anthropologist by training and finder of interesting things by avocation, Hugh Blackmer, began rescuing old photos from antique shops on Nova Scotia (the former Acadia) several decades ago. He's now posting them on-line for his Nova Scotia Faces project. He's using Flickr and experimenting with a wiki. He's finding some wonderful old moments.

By: Biblio

Biblio — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:57:19 -0800

Wonderful! Thanks for passing this on. I have a whole passel of photos that were just sitting around in our church and I love poring through them to try and figure them out.

By: Miko

Miko — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:15:13 -0800

Thank you!

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:42:42 -0800

I do this too! I love finding old photos and postcards at salvage places. Groovy links!

By: snsranch

snsranch — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:45:29 -0800

Beautiful! I love stuff like this!

By: unSane

unSane — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:46:56 -0800

Thank you. I love this stuff. ndouvid has been posting an utterly fantastic found album on Flickr too. It's still coming in, truly wonderful.

By: nightchrome

nightchrome — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:56:49 -0800

It's weird, and yet fascinating, to see how other people view the history of your home like this. As someone born and mostly raised in Nova Scotia, I can't imagine it being interesting, even in terms of historical record. But I think there's something about these kinds of extremely old photos which appeals to people, regardless of the setting. My family has "family photos" tucked away which are no different than these, and I imagine if most people looked into it, they could find such relics of their own past as well. But it really does make a difference to see a wide variety of them from the same general area.

By: ericb

ericb — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:13:50 -0800

In viewing these links I can't help but think of the photography of Disfarmer who captured the "spirit" of Heber Springs, Arkansas at the turn of the last century.

By: gottabefunky

gottabefunky — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:51:34 -0800

God, people were uglier back then.

By: Miko

Miko — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:36:34 -0800

God, people were uglier back then. You know, I don't think they were. Compare apples to apples -- imagine looking at a random assemblage of American family snapshots from, say the 1990s. Plenty of ugly all around! They just look ugly in a different way than we look ugly.

By: jakeaust

jakeaust — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:44:58 -0800

Here's the best of the bunch

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:32:06 -0800

God, people were uglier back then. What a ridiculous idea. You're just used to looking at the Beautiful People the media want you to worship. Great post -- thanks!

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:41:11 -0800

great stuff! thanks!

By: fluffycreature

fluffycreature — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:46:41 -0800

Many thanks for this....

By: fish tick

fish tick — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:32:58 -0800

Great find - thanks from this Nova Scotian.

By: carter

carter — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:06:55 -0800

This is excellent - thanks for posting this!

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:55:10 -0800

Hugh is an all-around awesome guy. Glad to see this post.