{"id":586,"date":"2011-10-16T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T18:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2016-01-26T22:53:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T06:53:10","slug":"old-negatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Old negatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have a stack of negatives, about 90-100 years old, that my parents salvaged from “The Old House” which stood a few hundred metres from my childhood home. It was the home of my Great Grandfather’s brother, Harvey Duck. On a whim I decided to try scanning some of them to see the details better.<\/p>\n

There is something mysterious about seeing these people who spent most of their days working the land where I wandered alone as a child, looking for fragments of the past.<\/p>\n

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The box where I keep old photos, postcards, and negatives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A couple women in hats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There are tons of photos of pets, especially dogs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Unknown workers behind “The Old Shed” that still stands on our farm, but I wasn’t aware of the other barns in the background. They appear to be near my Grandparents’ house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Threshing somewhere on our farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I liked the hats in this photo – not sure who they are or from what time period, but they were probably on a trip to Niagara Falls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a stack of negatives, about 90-100 years old, that my parents salvaged from “The Old House” which stood a few hundred metres from my childhood home. It was the home of my Great Grandfather’s brother, Harvey Duck. On … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,37],"tags":[82,162,422,529,675,706,835,948],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-2","category-photography-2","tag-ancestors","tag-barns","tag-farm","tag-horses","tag-negatives","tag-ontario","tag-rural","tag-threshing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}