Jack Philllips, Pierceton, who has loaned more than 1,000 historic photographs for the Whitko Community Digital Image Project, displays one of his glass negatives created by Walter ‘Ducky’ Long in the 1910s and 1920s. The emulsion on glass negatives will flake off if improperly stored. Learn how to prevent this at the ‘Preserving Your Family Photos’ workshop Thursday. Photo provided.
Jack Philllips, Pierceton, who has loaned more than 1,000 historic photographs for the Whitko Community Digital Image Project, displays one of his glass negatives created by Walter ‘Ducky’ Long in the 1910s and 1920s. The emulsion on glass negatives will flake off if improperly stored. Learn how to prevent this at the ‘Preserving Your Family Photos’ workshop Thursday. Photo provided.
Do you have boxes of old photographs tucked in your attic waiting for organization and care? Are digital images scattered on multiple computers and disks?

Learn how to identify, date, organize and preserve your family photographs from tintypes to digital. This free two-hour workshop will help family archivists, genealogists, collectors and scrapbookers interpret and properly store their images for future generations to enjoy.

Presenter Joan Hostetler of Heritage Photo and Research Services has extensive experience with historic photograph collections and has worked at the Indiana Historical Society and trained at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.

The workshop will be Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Pierceton and Washington Township Library. Space is limited, so e-mail heritagephotoservices@gmail.com or call 574-594-5474 to RSVP. Participants are encouraged to bring mystery or problem photographs for a show-and-tell session.

This program is part of the Photograph Preservation Workshop Series funded by Indiana Humanities with Support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The series is part of the Whitko Community Digital Image Project sponsored by the Pierceton and South Whitley Libraries in collaboration with the Kosciusko County Historical Society. Scanned photographs will made available in the Indiana State Library’s Indiana Memory Digital Library and is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. Additional funding was provided by the Kosciusko County Community Foundation, the Whitley County Community Foundation and the Pierceton Library Friends.