Some years ago my wife Karen started collecting glass plate negatives, finding them in junk shops and latterly in auctions. A handful grew into around a thousand or so which I am gradually scanning, gently restoring when needed and adding to the collection. This is obviously a time consuming process so I expect to be working on this for a very long time.
Many of the plates are from press archives and are in a poor state, probably from being processed in a rush and perhaps not being fully washed so the images could be rushed to print and so make a deadline. Some have extended captions which have been taken from the original typewritten notes that accompany the plates and provide a fascinating window to the past.
If you wish to you use one or more of these images I would carry out a sympathetic restoration before distribution.
