Korean War

  • Found Film: The Alberts and the Korean War

    We met the Alberts a few weeks ago, when I introduced Raymond and his family, whom we know from a box of about 20 developed rolls of film Raymond left behind recently.  This installment appears to have been taken around 1950, and daughter Louise is about 4-5 years old.  I’m guessing the Korean War is…

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  • In Search of my Camera’s Original Owner

    I picked up a Kodak Monitor 620 on eBay not too long ago.  It’s a heavy thing, probably the heaviest folder I have come across, and it’s described on a number of websites as “one of the most sophisticated folding cameras of the 1930s and 1940s”, “robust, and well-crafted.”  It’s interesting in that it has…

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