Ever go to an antique shop or watch Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” and notice how emotional everyone gets when they discover generations of family pictures?
Each of the 600 million pictures digitized by ScanMyPhotos has similar stories of nostalgia. But, what happens if they disappear?
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Longtime CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann uncovered a story about pictures lost and found. “Stranger finds family shown in treasure trove of decades-old photos” is a story with a happy ending as 35mm slides were recovered and returned to its owner. Read more.
TYRONE, Ga. — When Kristie Baeumert found a $15 vintage slide projector at Goodwill, it came with a mystery. She found a family’s old set of slides, showing smiling girls and a woman who was dressed to the nines. “I love these pictures,” she said after finding the images. “I feel like I know this family at this point.” Minutes after CBS News shared her story last week, a viewer contacted Kristie, bringing her together with the family in the old slides — Theda Robertson, now 88, and her daughters Deborah and Treva.
Bonus: Data Rot by David Pogue (CBS Sunday Morning)
Bonus: A treasure of long-forgotten 35mm slides were uncovered at this Los Angles TV News station
