The Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-06-15, Page 27Page 10—Cgossroads—June 15, 1983
GOOD OLD DAYS—This is a copy (on Plus -X) of an
original photo. The scene shows afternoon Iollygag-
gers in Hershey Park, Pa. — the year was 1916 — now
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HOLT CONFER
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Preserving
the past
For a great many
months, I have been devot-
ing some time to a very in-
teresting project.
The whole thing began
when Charlie Castner de-
cided to begin work on an
extensive biography of Mil-
ton Hershey. Charlie envi-
sioned that part of the book
would contain a photo-
graphic review of the town
history of Hershey, Pa.
It seemed like an inno-
cent enough request. Make
a few copy negatives from
existing photos, caption
them and that would be it
— right? Wrong!
First of all I had to find
the pictures I was sup-
posed to copy. While I was
asking around trying to lo-
cate old photographs,
Charlie wanted to know if
I'd mind interviewing a
few people along the way.
So far I've talked to past
presidents and officers of
the Hershey corporation,
those were the good old
as well as a great many
other people who knew and
worked with Milton Her-
shey. To date I covered
nearly 40, with something
like 50 more interviews
still on my list. Time is
very important in this
project — Milton Hershey
was 88 when he died in
1945, so the people who still
remember him well are
getting along in years.
And there was a lot of
picture taking: Once I got
into the project I realized
it was similar to trying to
walk across a pool of
quicksand: The further you
go, the deeper you get.
At one location I found
close to 600 scrapbooks of
Hershey memorabilia; an-
other location produced
nearly 300 scrapbooks. All
this in addition to the bits
and peices that suddenly
began to appear in private
collections.
Many of the things I
found were beginning to
suffer the ravages of age —
days!
(Copy photo by Holt Confer)
the newspaper clippings
were yellow and many
were beginning to show
signs of cracking and mil-
dew.
We decided the first
order off business needed to
be making copy negatives
of the rapidly deteriorating
pieces so even if they
couldn't be saved, we
would at least have some-
thing to remember them
by.
From time to time;tnost
everyone has photographs
or line copy they would
like to duplicate, so let , me
tell you quickly about the
procedure we used. Our
method had two things
going for it: simplicity and
speed.
We picked up a regular
cork bulletin board which
we mounted vertically
about 4 feet off the floor.
Copying, of course can be
done either vertically or
horizontally and the only
reason we chose to work
vertically was because we
could get into operation
within a few hours.
Two 500 -watt photo-
floods mounted in 12 -inch
reflectors were positioned
about 3 feet away from the
copy board. The light from
each of these units was
aimed., to strike the copy
board at a 45 -degree angle.
Getting the lights posi-
tioned properly was proba-
bly the most time-consum-
ing part of the exercise,
since having them both at
the same height as well as
the same distance away
from the wall is important
if you want to eliminate
uneven lighting. I'd recom-
mend using a tape measure
to make certain all your
distances are just about the
same for each light.
For exposure, take a re-
flected light reading from
an 18 -percent gray card, or
use an incident light meter
and put it up there in the
center of the board facing
the camera. It's a good
idea to take several read-
ings from your meter (no
matter which method you
use) at different parts of
the copy board just to
make certain your light
distribution is even.
For copying continuous
tones (regular photo-
graphs) with a 35 mm cam-
era, use Plus X film. You'll
get both fine grain for fu-
ture enlargements and ex-
cellent contrast. For those
pictures that were turning
yellow, I used a deep yel-
low filter to return the
prints to their original
black and white appear-
ance.
For line copy and half
tones (magazine or news-
paper photographs that
were dot etched for print-
ing) you should use Kodak's
High Contrast Copy Film
(5069).
This film has a clear
rather than a gray base
and provides excellent en-
largements. Read the in-
formation sheet enclosed
with the film so you know
how to process it, or know
what kind,*f processing to
specify m a custom lab.
One last point. I held the
photographs on the copy
board with push pins, hold-
ing them flat with the
flange on the pin head. The
pin itself was inserted into
the cork board.
Stop down your lens to at
least f-11 and you're all set
to preserve all the memo-
ries of the good old days.
King's birthdate
George III of England was
born on June 4, 1738.
OTTAWA — CPR coach
no. 1720 was recently col-
lected by the National Muse-
um of Science and Technol-
ogy . Other additions in-
cluded a 90 inch Crompton
and Knowles 12 heavy
worsted loom with roller
chain mechanism built in
1918.
Learn to handle stress,
advises the Industrial
Accident Prevention
Association. Avoid too many
Major changes at once. Be
realistic about your
capabilities. Plan your work,
allowing for frequent breaks.
Exercise regularly, eat well,
and, above all, learn to
relax.
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