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May 14, 2025

Faces of the past: One museum’s work to preserve century-old portrait photos

Faces of the past: One museum’s work to preserve century-old portrait photos

Pontiac Museum asking public’s help identifying photo subjects

Almost 300 glass plate negatives, such as that on the left, were donated to the Pontiac Museum several years ago. Now, the museum has digitized them, and is trying to put names to the local people these images captured.
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K.C. Jordan
kc@theequity.ca

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