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amazing - thanks
 
I thought you were going to tell me the history of "the island" before the others or anyone else got there but I think that was covered in season 4.
 
Wonderful pictures! Lots of smiling, brave faces.

NZ lost over 18,000 men in WW 1 (I just looked it up). Over 1.5% of their total population......a huge number.
I wonder how many of those guys made it back safely?
 
Yeah, stuff keeps popping up all the time. While I was googling to see if I could find the rest of those 63 pics, I ran across the <span style="font-weight: bold">Great War forum</span> where someone in the UK found 500 glass plate negs from WWWI in a fireplace!

I'm a member of the Aerodrome Forum (I like WWI airplanes.) It's amazing, there's a forum out there to cater to any interest you have. Maybe I'll join the Great War forum so I can view those pics. :laugh:

Years ago, my grandfather gave me about 80 glass plates negatives that he had taken. I previously had made prints of all of them in my darkroom (when I had one), but just last week, I decided to see if I could scan them with my HP All-in-one printer, scanner, copier. It took a little playing around to get decent exposures, but I got most of them scanned in. There's a lot more in the original negatives then this scanner can capture. Maybe someday I'll get a better scanner.

Here's one of my grandmother...circa 1936 from a 5x7 glass plate negative.
 

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The Great War Forum is a very cool place, I've posted a few items over there, have to somehow remember my login ID
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I don't visit them very often... That fireplace find sounds great, I only wish I could make a find like that...

Although I did acquire a fairly large collection of WW1 postcards from a friend's antique shop, I think about 60 images in total, I've only scanned a few of them so far...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/238124679/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/238068031/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/178677582/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/238068032/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/178677583/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/238124678/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/131084712/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/178677580/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/178677585/

Some more WW1-related images

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/131084711/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/373960227/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/163052982/

This next one needs major restoration!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/53001021/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sherlock77/52576030/

That's all for now...
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