historical Photo's

[Anonymous]

I have found that historical photo's are a great source of information for period modeling. I have a large collection of photo's of Pensacola Florida dateing from 1866 to 1945. If you are into period architecture for your model, look for sources in your area, or I can send you some of mine. I am presently modeling the Dairy Bar, which was razed about 20 years ago. When the model is finished, I will send pictures of it and the prototype that I worked from, for compairason.

[bsteel4065]

Hi Kenneth

Can you point me to the websites you go to for your photos? There are many sites that are dedicated to and have photos of particular railroads, but I want photos of America 1950's. I am looking for photos of streets, sidewalks, gas stations, shops, restaurants, apartments, diners, markets, billboards, buildings, etc, etc. I'm looking for cityscapes and details scenes I can build.

Thanks in advance!

Barry

[dknelson]

Barry

I suggest you check out the famous Cushman photo archives maintained online by Indiana University.  This is a huge collection of color slides from the 1930s to around 1970 or so.  This guy shot the ordinary stuff and I think you'll find it interesting.  It takes some looking around to find stuff

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp

Another source of course is old Life and Look magazines from the era. 

Dave Nelson