What began as “I really should organize these old family photographs” has somehow turned into a full-scale archival project.
At last count, I have scanned, catalogued, and sleeved about 150 photographs, newspaper clippings, programs, documents, and assorted family treasures dating from the late nineteenth century through the twentieth. Each item gets a catalog number and a digital copy, and many of the photographs have also been carefully restored.
The collection is beginning to divide itself naturally into family branches: The patriarchal branch of the Chapmans and Fenstermakers, and the matriarchal branch of the Youngs and Hancocks.… Read the rest
