The March 2022 Snap Shots features Eric Luden, CEO of Digital Silver Imaging, who will present “Tips on Digitizing Your Archive” Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 7:30PM on Zoom. Among his tips are scanning do’s and don’ts for a successful archiving project along with a Q&A. Other items in this issue include: Photographica 89 will take place all day Saturday, April 23, 2022 at Newton North High School, 457 Walnut St., Newton, MA, with more details to come; new research from the Library of Congress on early photographic history, which uncovered a high concentration of women photographers in the Midwest in the nineteenth century; PHSNE members sorting auction items discovered an unusual Kodak DCS 14n full-frame digital camera from the early 2000s; a last-chance online auction including deaccessioned images from the MET at Christie’s opening on March 23 and closing on April 5, 2022; and finally, an article on photomicrographs taken on 10×12-inch glass plates by Arthur Smith in 1909, plus another article on Decayed Daguerreotypes, both in the online publication Public Domain Review.
(above) Robert Frank, Parade, Hoboken New Jersey, 1955