Found Photos Archives

10 October, 2021

Found Film: A Peek into Someone Else’s Past – By Shawn Granton

By shawn granton

After a year and a half back into film photography, I figured the day would come when I buy a camera with a roll of film in it. This day came in June, when I bought a Minolta Fr...

10 January, 2021

Found Photos: Rex’s War – A Hundred Years of Photography – By Graeme Tregay

By Graeme Tregay

I retired in 2012 and decided to turn up the wick on my lifelong interest in film photography. I wanted something to do in the indoor winter months and started to scan my archi...

29 November, 2020

Found Photos: Dry Glass Plates taken by Dallas R. Sweney – By Christoph Traugott

By Christoph Traugott

Here are a few samples from the collection of Glass Plates taken by Dallas R. Sweney (1883-1958), who lived at 807 Spring Street, Peoria, IL. In the early 1920s, Dallas was brie...

15 November, 2020

Found Photos: Romaine Oberer Franzgrote Photo Archive – By Christoph Traugott

By Christoph Traugott

Here we have fun and whimsical family treasures, with an epic backstory, spanning 1929 to 1959, but also covering various events and locales around the Central Illinois area. Ar...

25 October, 2020

Found Photos – Sam Hyde’s Photography Adventures, 1898-1904 – by Christoph Traugott

By Christoph Traugott

Sam Hyde's Photography Adventures, 1898-1904, travelogue and personal pictures came in quite the elaborate handmade-showpiece-styled photo-album. Images are of locations in the ...

18 October, 2020

Found Photos – Glass Slide Collection of John Voss, Ph.D. (1895 – 1948) – By Christoph Traugott

By Christoph Traugott

This here is the Glass Slide Collection of John Voss, Ph.D. (1895 - 1948) Plant Ecologist, Principal and Teacher at Manual Training High School, Peoria, Illinois and hobbyist ph...

11 October, 2020

Found Photos – Lake Lugano, 1945/46 – By Christoph Traugott

By Christoph Traugott

This photos were taken by unknown (as yet) World War II Servicemen and women, likely from Peoria, Illinois going for R&R time at Lake Lugano, Italy. Lake Lugano is a glacial...

4 October, 2020

Found Photos – The Field Trip – 17 Never-Before Seen Images from the Mid 1960s – By Dirk Fletcher

By Dirk Fletcher

I consider myself lucky as I have been a photographer and surrounded by photography for pretty much my entire life. As a second-generation photographer, camera builder and tinke...

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