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Hi all.

I recently found a box of 100's of photographs from around 1920 on.

I have no use for them but there are some war photos, and lots of photos of different towns and cites in the 20's and 30's anyone know any organisations who might want them before they are thrown out?

Don't know much about them, just the writing on the back for info.

Cheers


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Nick, I would love these if you can't find a home for them. i would be happy to pay postage or make a donation to a charity of your choice.

Kev.
 
Whatever you do, don't throw them out!

They represent an important, nay vital part of world history. They really need to be passed to a photographic archive/museum. I would sugeest contacting the British Museum in London as a first option. They would almost certainly be interested.
 
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I would sugeest contacting the British Museum in London as a first option. They would almost certainly be interested.
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Imperial War Museum, surely?

The British Museum is more Ancient Greece and Egypt.
 
The British Museum is all encompassing and will pass on to the appropriate museum. In any event, the OP did say that the images were of towns and cities, not necessarily from the war.
 
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The British Museum is all encompassing and will pass on to the appropriate museum. In any event, the OP did say that the images were of towns and cities, not necessarily from the war.
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Indeed most of the photos are of towns and landmarks and countryside etc around the early 30's.

There is also Egypt and i think Israel
 
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Very interested in the photos would it be posssible to copy them so we could all see them?
 
You could always divvy them up and get members to scan them, then send the originals on to where they could do the most good.
 
Yeah the imperial war museum would definitely be interested in them, as would many collectors. Any none war ones as well are still going to be of historical interest to others, don't forget cameras back then were not as common as today, you might have views that are rare to be seen these days
 
Thanks for all the tips, guess i won't throw them away :)

Still going through them all, there are a loads of envelopes full of negatives so i could have them reprinted.
 
Any idea who the photographer was ?

Looking at the rather horrific shot of of the crashed plane, to get that kind of access I dont think the shooter was a passer by, most likely an official war photographer and as such there will no doubt be a record of who he was serving with etc


It is such a shame that people even think about just throwing old photographs away, I was recently gifted a jiffy bag full of steam railway negatives from the 40's and 50's. They were the owners late fathers and because he had no interest in steam he was just going to junk them, luckily I was there at the right time to say.. 'I'll have them'
 
Imperial War Museum. They look too valuable to go anywhere else.
 
Yellowbelly said:
Whatever you do, don't throw them out!

They represent an important, nay vital part of world history. They really need to be passed to a photographic archive/museum. I would sugeest contacting the British Museum in London as a first option. They would almost certainly be interested.
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i agree please dont throw them

can you show us more?
 
I'll get some more scanned and posted.

Can't tell you much about the photographer, i helped someone clear out a relatives house and these were destined for the tip so i brought them home.
 
A bit of googling reveals the Pampas was bombed in Malta, April 1942.

Takali (Ta-Qali) was an airfield in Malta.
 
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And "Illustrious" (HMS Illustrious, an aircraft carrier) was bombed in 1941 whilst escorting convoys east of Sicily - so it seems the photographer was probably on active service in the Mediterranean theatre. If he was an official photographer the pictures would probably have an official War Office stamp on the back, so I'm guessing he was just an ordinary serviceman.

Pictures like these should never be thrown away; they're part of history.
 
The 'SELO' mark on the back was a trade mark used by Ilford back in the 1930s and 40s.
 
HMS Illustrious was a WW2 aircraft carrier. She was bombed during operations in the Mediterranean on 10 January 1941, and bombed again on 16 and 19 January while under repair in Malta.

The JU87 (Stuka) was a dedicated dive bomber, the JU 88 was a general purpose bomber and the ME 109 was a fighter.

These photographs seem to fall into the period January 1941 - April 1942. It would be very interesting to know more about them.
 
If the negs have been well developed and stored, they should still be in good condition. A hi-res scan and a bit of digital tweaking could probably get usefully more out of them than the prints show.

Looks like a rare and valuable find (y)
 
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