Archibald Stewart is my missing ancestor in the genealogy sense. He died from cholera on his way to Utah in 1850. The man on the top left is his youngest son, William Lyle. The image on the top right is of my grandfather, Daniel C. Stewart when he was very young. The two on the bottom are of William Lyle's wife, Sarah and their children. The one on the bottom left is about a bad a photograph that you could have and still include. It was the only thing we had when they were young. There is a lot of clean up work that can be done with Adobe's Photoshop CS2 and that will be in the future.
If you click on the image, you have to remember that these are all designed to be a printable copy. I try to make the resulting print be on the order of 4x5. You have to save the image and use a graphics program where the chosen resolution is 300dpi. If you don't save them, they are about 4 square pages. They won't look any better than they do on the screen. Some of the images are old and the size could be 4x7. The common dimension is one side will be 4" wide and it will print on 8" x 11" paper. Some are still older, which means anything goes :). Some are slowly being restored to photo quality. You can only spend so much time eliminating scratches and dust spots before you become bored. I stop when I reach that point. It seems like I want to do something every time I get around them, which means that the images will get better with time. There isn't a single image that some restoration effort won't improve.
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The following shots are of Reed Stewart as a child. It was a 3 sequence set of photographs. They are about an inch in diameter, so, trying to print them 4" wide is a waste of paper. The fourth is one of Reed, Gwen, and Norma. Gwen is supposed to be about 1.5 years old.
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This photograph never ceases to amaze me. It had to be taken around 1909 and they look just awesome here. |
I hadn't seen these slides. They were 6cm x 6cm that Dad had taken at some point. I thought it presented a view that you could no longer see. The pipe in the center connects the house to the irrigation ditch that ran by the background trees. I had to chuckle at the same time because the view in the summer was basically slew and barnyard. The smell was mostly barnyard (animal waste) and a small amount of slew. In the winter, none of this stood out and it was basically a pretty scene. I left the outline of the slide in the scanned output so that you can tell the prints from the slides.
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Mom and Bryce's American Quarter horses. |
