| NEW PHOTOS FROM THE LODWICK SCHOOL OF AERONAUTICS
| | | A Lodwick School of Aeronautics cadet gets advice from his flight instructors. |
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INTRODUCTION
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Dr. Jane Carver Holmes volunteered at the Lakeland Public Library for more than twenty years. Upon her death in late 2003, she bequeathed $875,000 to the library to be used to benefit the Fine Arts, Reference, and Special Collections unit of the library. Each unit receives annually a share of the earnings from the bequest, which was invested in tax free municipal bonds.
This year the Special Collections unit used its share of the earnings to preserve more than 100 deteriorating acetate negatives from the Albert Lodwick Photograph Collection. The negatives were in fragile condition and inaccessible to researchers. Those selected for preservation provide new images of the traning of British and American flight school cadets at the present site of Tiger Town. They complement the more than three hundred prints currently available in the Lodwick Collection.
The negatives were sent to the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) in Andover Massachusetts, which created duplicate negatives, interpositives, and 8"x10" prints from each of the original negatives. The prints have been added to those already available in the Lodwick Collection.
Click on the links below to view a sampling of the newly available images made by possible by the generosity of the late Jane Carver Holmes and the skill of the staff at NEDCC |
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