CRESTWOOD - Thru The Lens

Crestwood as documented in photographs by members of the Crestwood Camera Club (c.1950)

In June of 1950 the Crestwood Camera Club presented a  leatherbound photo album to their friends at the Crestwood Library. The display was readily accessible and, as was evident from the condition of the volume before it was retired from the shelves, very heavily viewed. A couple of the photos have disappeared, and over the years fewer and fewer people have known of the books' existence to seek it out for viewing.¹  This photographic study, it is believed, was undertaken between late summer of 1949 until about May of the following year. The project was undertaken by the now defunct Crestwood Camera Club.  In June of 1950 the Club, which held its meetings at the Crestwood Library, showed its appreciation to the Library staff and the people of Crestwood (while underscoring their photographic skills) by presenting them with this collection of 25² mounted B+W prints showing Crestwood circa 1950.³ 

Detail from photograph of CRESTWOOD STATION (c.1950). One of many photos that comprise a study of Crestwood landmarks undertaken 1949-1950 by members of the Crestwood Camera Club.

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1. It was subsequently placed in the care of the History Committee under the supervision of our late Chairman Emeritus Richard Farrell, who secured and documented the contents until such time as a backup copy could be made -  placing it on view only upon request;  2 .Of which 22 remain; 3 .In October of 2001 the Archives Committee of Crestwood Historical Committee (under the auspicious guidance of Bill Carnes, our Keeper of the Archives), digitized the photographs by scanning each photo into both Adobe Photoshop and GIF formats and "burned" a CD(R), a copy of which was added to the Libraries archives, and a copy of which was added to our own archives, and a copy of which was placed in remote storage for safe-keeping.