Aug 8: Picnic on Saturday afternoon at Dick & Joan Haviland¹s home. Enjoy the music of the falls from 1-4 p.m., eat at 3; please bring a dish to pass. The Havilands will provide barbecued ribs, baked beans and beverages.

The Havilands will again host our annual society picnic in their historic home, a former mill on the waterfalls in the Village of Honeoye Falls. Dick & Joan's address is 171Ž2 Ontario St. The view is spectacular.  Please do not park in their driveway as it is shared with neighbors. RSVP Bloemendaal¹s 585-288-6359 or jbloem@rochester.rr.com

Sept. 15: 
Bill Andrews,  Professor Emeritus of political science at SUNY Brockport, will speak on a famous Norwegian photographer. He writes, "Anders Beer Wilse was Norway's greatest photographer. He was born in 1865, emigrated to the United States in 1884, became a professional photographer in Seattle in 1897, returned to Norway in 1900, and died in 1949. He was a double first cousin of my grandmother and lived three doors from her. I lived with her during my senior year in high school and spent a good deal of time with Wilse, who was largely retired. Norwegian museums have 200,000 of his photos and have put 82,000 on line (Galleri.nor). He was best known for his landscapes and was also Norway's leading portrait photographer, but he photographed everything, producing photographs in every possible genre." Meet on Thursday, Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m. At Barnes & Noble, 3349 Monroe Ave in Pittsford Plaza.

Oct. 16-18: PhotoHistory (no meeting at Barnes & Noble this month)

If you would like an e-mail with basic information to forward to fellow photo-historians, send an e-mail to Sharon Bloemendaal  at jbloem@Rochester.rr.com,  and she will e-mail you the info. Also, check the Society's website at  http://www.tphs.org

Symposium Speakers & Topics

(Afternoon sessions are separated into two tracks: images & hardware)

Terry Bennett (Surrey, England), ³Early Photography in China, 1842-1870²

Robert Bogdan (Orwell, Vermont), ³Photo Postcards: The People¹s Photography, 1905-1935²

Jerome ³Pepper² Broad (Pequea, Pennsylvania), ³Tradesmen, Craftsmen and Laborers in Occupational Tintypes²

Andrew Davidhazy (Honeoye Falls, New York), ³The Vanishing High-Speed Motion Picture Cameras: A Lecture/ Demonstration²

Rolf Fricke (Rochester, New York), ³Eaton Lothrop Remembered² (at banquet, 15 minutes)

Todd Gustavson (GEH Technology Curator, Rochester, New York), CAMERA: A History of Photography from the Daguerreotype to Digital (GEH publication, 15 minutes)

Matthew Isenburg (Hadlyme, Connecticut), ³The Many Faces of Daguerre‹in Advertisements, Engravings, Paintings, and Daguerreotypes²

Steven Joseph (Brussels, Belgium), ³Early Advertising Photography: a Well-Kept Secret²

William Kraus (Newtown, Pennsylvania) and Takayuki Kawai (Saline, Michigan), ³Nikon Cameras: the Early Years²

George Layne (Flourtown, Pennsylvania), ³The Earliest Kodak Cameras with String-set Shutters²

Nancy Martin (Rochester, New York), ³The Kodak Historical Collection at the University of Rochester‹a Resource for Photographic Historians² (15 minutes)

Les Newcomer (Farmington, Michigan), ³How Folmer & Schwing¹s Cameras Changed Photography²

Barret Oliver (Glendora, California), ³The Woodburytype: Its History, Technology, and Influence²

Linda Ries (New Cumberland, Pennsylvania), ³J. Horace McFarland and the Autochrome²

Steven Sasson (Hilton, New York), ³The Dawn of Digital² (banquet speech by co-inventor of digital camera)

Robert Shanebrook (Rochester, New York), ³The 35 mm Film Story: Factors that Created Œ135¹‹the Most Popular Film Format²

Lorne Shields (Thornhill, Ontario, Canada), ³History of the Bicycle Through the Lens of the Camera²

Rachel Stuhlman (GEH Librarian, Rochester, New York), Imagining Paradise: The Richard & Ronay Menschel Library at George Eastman House, Rochester (GEH publication, 15 minutes)

Sarah J. Weatherwax (Curator of Prints and Photographs, The Library Company of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), ³Catching a Shadow: Daguerreotypes in Philadelphia, 1839-1860²

NEWS FROM SHARON PHSNE in Massachusetts has scheduled their fall photographic trade show for the week after PhotoHistory, on Oct. 24-25 in Wakefield, Mass., so that travelers from other countries and far-away states can attend both! See www.phsne.org

The Daguerreian Society symposium will be held in Philadelphia from Nov. 12-15, with side trips on Nov. 11-12. See www.daguerre.org. info@daguerre.org

DONATIONS FOR PhotoHistory? At our last PhotoHistory, Eastman Kodak generously gave books on Stieglitz for door prizes. Does anyone have a contact at EK  who knows of any good items for door prizes?   Even clothing with a "Kodak" logo would work. These are great incentives for registrants to return to their seats in a timely fashion after breaks. Other suggestions are club memberships, gift certificates or subscriptions. Please contact Sharon Bloemendaal at 585-288-6359.

FREEBIE TABLE AT MEETINGS Continue to bring your unwanted treasures; many are finding good homes. If you can use carousel slide trays, contact Sharon Bloemendaal, 288-6359