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A treasure trove of glass plate photographic negatives depicting life in 1930s Londonderry is to be auctioned almost half a century after being salvaged from a house blown up by a bomb. The hoard, a missing part of the photographic archive of the Derry Standard newspaper, which closed in 1966, was found in 1969 after a blast in an empty house in the Waterside area. A member of an Army search team found the boxes of glass plates hidden under the floorboards. They went unclaimed, and ended up with the soldier who recovered them. http://bit.ly/2zJSBvm http://bit.ly/2zJSBvm+ -- Peterk Dallas, Tx [log in to unmask] Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org “If only there were a massive entity that I were forced to fund to tell me how I should live my life, since I’m so obviously incapable of deciding for myself.” M. Hashimoto Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra