Thursday, August 10, 2006
Members Wanted! No Pay, Lots of Work, Inquire Within!
I'd hoped this project would have been simple. I go to a few antique and junk shops, I find photos and ephemera from Montana, I scan and post. What was I thinking? I've been searching online and found some good material that I can prove are Montana-related. But finding photos that I can be certain were taken in Montana is not so easy. There's also the additional problem of money. A photo or old postcard from, say, Florida, may run about a dollar. However, it seems that local antique shops are geared a little more towards tourists, and if I want said items from Montana, I'm looking at a minimum of five dollars. For a postcard.

So this is getting off to a slow start, which is not what I wanted, but will have to suffice until I can gather more material. If there happens to be anyone out there that may want to join this blog as a member and add their own posts, maybe someone also interested in researching the web and local shops, and being a part of A History of Montana by Kodak... The offer is wide open -- I have no opposition to making this a community blog! Also, if anyone has a couple of photos or the like that they'd like to see here, that can happen, too!

If you're interested, or even if you just have a few suggestions, I'm just an email away:
requiscat at gmail dot com.
 
posted by Courtney at 8:28 PM | Permalink |


2 Comments:


At 9:40 PM, Blogger Randy

Courtney, get in touch with Karen of Karbon Kounty Moos. She has a wonderful collection of antique postcards she may be willing to share.

 

At 11:27 AM, Blogger Kasey

Have you tried searching eBay? Trav and I found six lovely antique (1960 and earlier) Kalispell postcards on eBay. Although we actually purchased them, you wouldn't have to go that far. All the postcards we purchased had digital images on eBay. You could get the picture you need for this blog right off eBay.

I'm sure there are many Montana postcards out there on eBay. You'd just have to do a little searching.

P.S. -- No, we don't have the postcards anymore, or I'd scan them and send you the files. We used them to create a gift.