A friend of mine, Steve, sent me this site today that is really awesome. It's called Superior View and is a collection of old pictures by photographer Jack Deo of Marquette, MI. He had assembled some 50,000 historic photos and cataloged well over 10,000. It all started in the 1970s when Jack found and bought collections of negatives of Upper Peninsula photographers from the late 1800s. Often he prints from the original glass-plate negative. You could look for hours at all the photos of fishing, hunting, sports, people, towns, transportation, maritime and occupations. Of course back then there was no camouflage and mostly lever action. Today it is amazing what you can spend now on hunting. It's a nice bunch old pictures of when life was a lot simpler in our great outdoors. Enjoy!
Friday, December 12, 2008
Views of the Past
A friend of mine, Steve, sent me this site today that is really awesome. It's called Superior View and is a collection of old pictures by photographer Jack Deo of Marquette, MI. He had assembled some 50,000 historic photos and cataloged well over 10,000. It all started in the 1970s when Jack found and bought collections of negatives of Upper Peninsula photographers from the late 1800s. Often he prints from the original glass-plate negative. You could look for hours at all the photos of fishing, hunting, sports, people, towns, transportation, maritime and occupations. Of course back then there was no camouflage and mostly lever action. Today it is amazing what you can spend now on hunting. It's a nice bunch old pictures of when life was a lot simpler in our great outdoors. Enjoy!
Thanks Marian, I really enjoy looking at old photos.
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