I have a couple of trays of slides with surveying photos. I used to use them in marketing and for conference presentations. I am going to throw them away now. Is there any place that could keep them? Could the Surveyors Museum or somewhere like that use them? Just checking before I trash them. What about a school with a surveying cirriculum? Thanks for other ideas.
You can check with the National Survey Museum in Springfield, IL. They have a website with all the contact info.
> I have a couple of trays of slides with surveying photos. I used to use them in marketing and for conference presentations. I am going to throw them away now. Is there any place that could keep them? Could the Surveyors Museum or somewhere like that use them? Just checking before I trash them. What about a school with a surveying cirriculum? Thanks for other ideas.
What are they of exactly?...I would never trash photos...they are commodity.
Local or State Historical Society
These are slides of work from Florida to Alaska and even a few from other places.
I have consolidated them before and gotten rid of lots of them.
Now it is time to move again and I can leave them all behind.
I don't even have a slide projector any longer, so I can't show them to anyone.
It is pass them on now or save them so my kids can dump them when I am gone.
Kind of the same thing as some of the books others have made available.
As we get older they seem to become valuable to a point and then they become dispensable.
I will followup with the surveyor museum but I know that the local historical people will not want them because they are not from Oregon.
Thanks again!
People will buy virtually anything
At a flea market a few days ago discovered hundreds of 1800's photos placed as singles in plastic. Here was somebody's great-great grandfather as a youngster. Over there was a group photo from some country school. It was downright amazing.
Consider converting them to a digital format and contacting http://surveyhistory.org/ .
There might be other sites that would consider archiving this type of history.
Do any of the state societies do this for old (dead or retired) surveyor's records?
I would save them, digitally. For a few bucks, you can take them to Costco and they will send you a disc.
Dugger
The MN state society has an on-going need for surveying photos for use in public-information material, on the website, etc. I'd take them and pass them on. It would be best if the people shown, or some of them, could be identified so we could get permission to use their photos in this way. Drop me a line, jvcls at aol dot com.
Surveyors Historical Society would also be interested. Email me if you don't find any other takers.
