E G Child's photographs
FROM THE HOME PAGE
The above photo is the only existing copy of a negative which I don't think exists anymore.
The photo was in the original child collection photographs, which I had found in Palmerston North in 1963. The family knew they were there and they allowed me to go into the garage, and in the back of a little shed Peter Weston and I found the negatives in a box.
I orginally thought this was a blank piece of glass, and when I looked at it the light caught. When you do that to a negative you might be able to see some emulsion on it. In this case I could see some very weak emulsion and I saw it as a positive image.
I then very carefully created a photograph which is this photograph above.
From this photo I was able to detail a drafted copy to create the image on the HOME page using manual drafting techniques like stipple.
Consequently the photograph is not archived in any way.
OTARA BRIDGE
This is a photo of the Otara Bridge workmen from 1901.
This photograph was given to me by the photographer's son.
While I was in Palmerston North at teachers college, I was staying at a house in the same street as the Child family. I visited Wally and Madge Child. Wally was E G Child's son. I used to visit them and talk about the early days.
19yo Dan Sneddon, is sitting in the front with the paint pot. I was able to contact him in 1963 and he later wrote to me with the details of the photograph which I will add later.