Here’s another photo from my Grandpa’s collection. (See A Family Photo Jackpot for the story of my gradually scanning/preserving a large collection of old photos). I’m actually showing two photos—front and back of an old photo postcard, sent from St. Paul, to Bemidji, MN. What’s wonderful about its being a postcard is that the postmark [...]
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Photo – An Old Photo Postcard
Posted in Photos, tagged Bemidji, Carroll, Hall, Lytle, Mill Park, Minnesota, Photo Postcard, Sepia, Sexton, St. Paul, Vintage Photo Postcard on April 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Photo – Mystery Baseball Players, circa 1920s
Posted in Photos, tagged 1920s, Antique Catcher's Gear, Baseball, Photo, St. Paul on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are two photos from my Grandpa’s collection. Since Grandpa’s photos are almost always of family members, it’s rare to find one with people that I can’t identify. But these two photos are a complete mystery to me. The photos show a bunch of young people, some of them in baseball uniforms, and one of [...]
Photo – Mowing the Lawn in 1940
Posted in Photos, tagged 1940, Bemidji, Bill Sexton, family photos, George Sexton, Minnesota, Old lawnmower on February 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here’s another photo from our family collection that I like. It’s labeled “Pa – George – Jim – Aug, 1940″ and shows my great-grandfather mowing his lawn in Bemidji, MN in 1940. He’s standing next to my grandfather’s brother George, and George’s son Jim. (Click to see a larger version, not cropped). There’s nothing dramatic [...]
Photo – St. Paul to Canada Road Rally, 1920s
Posted in Photos, tagged Minnesota history, Minnesota, road rally, Model T, St. Paul, history, University of Minnesota, St. Paul to Canada, Old photo on January 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a wonderful photo of my grandfather that really lends itself to studying it, and thinking about the time and place that it was taken. It’s a photo that was in my grandfather’s collection. My grandfather was Ted (Edward Thomas) Sexton (1902-1980). Ted grew up in Bemidji, MN, one of twelve siblings. As a young [...]
Great-Grandpa Bill in the Lumber Camp
Posted in Photos, tagged Bill Sexton, Gus Sexton, Lumber Camp, Lumberjacks on January 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I like Randy Seaver’s idea of occasionally posting a photo from his personal collection, so I’m going to start doing that as well. Here’s one of my favorites. This is a photo that a family member got from the Minnesota Historical Society, entitled “A lively crowd of old time lumberjacks at Gus Sexton’s camp”. My [...]
John Sexton – Zooming Into a Life
Posted in Photos, tagged family photos, Deep Zoom on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In my last post, I introduced Microsoft’s new Deep Zoom technology and showed how we could use it to zoom way in on a large family photo. This time, I’m posting a collage of 191 photos of my Dad that lets you zoom way in on each individual photo. If you’ve never seen Deep Zoom [...]
Deep Zooming Into a Family Photo
Posted in Photos, tagged family photos, Zooming, Scanning, DPI, Resolution, Deep Zoom on November 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One tough thing about posting family photos to the web is that you need to decide which resolution to post your photo at. If you have a high resolution photo that you’d like to post on a web page, you basically have two choices: Option A: Resize the photo (make smaller) so that it fits [...]
A Family Photo Jackpot
Posted in Photos, tagged family photos on August 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Grandpa Ted was into scrapbooking long before it became fashionable. You’d never have guessed it from looking at him, though. To all appearances, he was just a hard-working blue-collar guy, owner of a small printing business, and father of six. But Ted had a lifelong passion for family history and spent many years obsessively collecting [...]
