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Organizing My Aviation Photographic Collection?

Sun Nov 25, 2012 8:44 pm

Writing nine books and still counting has resulted in a pretty large photo collection. I have finally started placing my military aviation photograph collection together, those not digitized, starting with 8x10s with RNZAF PV-1 Venturas being the first. Most are smaller originals or copies suppled by veterans, family, inidividuals, and archives. I hope to digitize all of them sometime in the future. My fault that I have never really organized them and they are scattered about, including a small number of negatives.
I sold some photos over the years, which I hadn't. I also have squadron histories, war diaries, AARS, etc in hard copy, microfilm, and microfiche that I hope to convert to PDF. For some reason my wife for several years has asked what she's supposed to with with all my documents and photos when I go to the great beyond.:D
That said, long term plan is to establish a website with some of the documents and photos.

Re: Organizing My Aviation Photographic Collection?

Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:19 pm

ACarey:

Good day!

Good luck with your upcomimg projects/website & digitizing the photos. I look fwd like many others.. to see some of the Navy/Marines pics in your vast collection. If you happen to run into F4U-5Ns of Navy VC-3/VC-4 plz do not hesitate to post them. We are looking for one special F4U-5N that you may have in your vast F4U collection Buno 124715/FAH 609!!

Thank you for the time & attention!

Re: Organizing My Aviation Photographic Collection?

Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:21 pm

zorro7 wrote:ACarey:

Good day!

Good luck with your upcomimg projects/website & digitizing the photos. I look fwd like many others.. to see some of the Navy/Marines pics in your vast collection. If you happen to run into F4U-5Ns of Navy VC-3/VC-4 plz do not hesitate to post them. We are looking for one special F4U-5N that you may have in your vast F4U collection Buno 124715/FAH 609!!

Thank you for the time & attention!


I'll keep a lookout. I haven't seen such an image yet.

Re: Organizing My Aviation Photographic Collection?

Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:27 pm

Some 8x10 PV-1 images. Sorry for the quality, my first attempt at using my cell phone camera.


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Re: Organizing My Aviation Photographic Collection?

Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:54 pm

Here is a VC-4 F4U-5N 8x10 that I scanned from an original in my collection

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Re: Organizing My Aviation Photographic Collection?

Tue Nov 27, 2012 1:32 pm

paging Jack Cook ...

Re: Organizing My Aviation Photographic Collection?

Tue Nov 27, 2012 2:46 pm

ACarey:

Thank you for the nice inflight shot of F4U-5N of VC-4 poss Buno 123195. Atlantic City NAS NA #48.

p.s Plz keep posting those F4U-5Ns of Navy VC-4/VC-3 Sqs. Somewhere in there Buno 124715/FAH 609 will appear. It also flew with VC-4 c.1955 but its cowling NA code is Ukn for now.

Re: Organizing My Aviation Photographic Collection?

Tue Nov 27, 2012 4:29 pm

I'll keep digging.
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