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Photograph Negatives 82nd Airborne Questions


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Hello,

 

Here is something really cool my 11 year old son found this week at the MVPA show in Topeka. The image shows members of the 82nd A/B in Africa preparing for the drop into Sicily. The image is published and is even used in Angolia's "Heroes in Our Midst" Vol. 1, pg 364. But what I have is a negative of the photo. Does anyone know the history of this photo's use; where was it originally published and would there have been a number of negatives put into circulation for different publicists? I can't see a reason for marketing the negative to the public. And it's not a slide, it measures about 3 1/2 x 4 1/2".

 

Thank you,

 

Jason

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There was a time where folks like myself had 'copy negatives' made that were that size when loaned photos by others. There was no scanner to make it easy. Kinda pricy too. My guess is that's what you've got is a copy negative made by someone for their own use from a photo.

 

Looks like it might even be a copy negative of a photo in a book.

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To really know what it is, it is really helpful to know the film stock. Also, just to be clear, if the picture you provided shows the image exactly (in other words, you didn't reverse the colors from a negative), then this is actually known as a POSITIVE or transparency. Negatives have the colors reversed, whereas positives are more commonly known as transparencies. The term "slide" as a bit of a misnomer, as slides are simply positives used for projection onto a screen, and slides can be based on many different film formats, including 9.5mm (Minox film), 16mm, 35mm, 828, 127, 120, and various large sheet film formats.

 

The notch code on the sheet film of your image seems to indicate it is Ektachrome, a film that wasn't introduced until after WWII. Doing a quick check, I found sources that indicate this particular notch code is for either Ektachrome 50 or Ektachrome 64T, films that used the E6 development process introduced in the 1970s.

 

EDIT: Just wanted to add that the 3.25X4.25 (aka 3X4) format was uncommon by the 1970s, as most work involving sheet film by that time was done on 4X5. Consequently, it may be worth checking to see if the same notch code was used for an earlier and different film type.

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