2021 Spring Newsletter

VOLUNTEER AND VISITOR REPORT November 2020 - May 2021 Volunteers - 19 Hours - 1,528 Board Meetings - 3 Average Attendance - 10 Visitors - 367 States Represented - 14 VOLUNTEERS: Ann Benton, Ann Davis, Jana Barcus, Jim Bousman, Wes Cole, Elsie Cordle, Luanne Debrick, Agnes Dillard, Nina Gerken, Mike Hursey, Christine Hursey, Iris Kluber, Larry Lybarger, Kathy Peckman, Lloyd Peckman, Leanne Shields, Roger Shipman, Vince Thorpe, Beth Wilson STATES REPRESENTED: Arkansas, Florida, South Da kota, Colorado, California, Louisiana, Iowa, Oklaho ma, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Carolina, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri Old negatives, color or black & white can be copied and made into prints. Those old dark “Tin Type” images can be revealed to show a sharp image that can be printed or saved onto computer files. I can copy all sizes of negatives color or black & white from the small 110, 35 mm, all 120 and up to a 4 x 5 inches. Color slides can be copied and made into color prints or copied onto CDs or USB memory stick to view on your computer. The photo of a couple below had been washed in a pair of jeans and it was pulling off the backing. The owner was heartbroken as it was the only photo of her father. I re moved the wrinkled image off the card base by soaking it in water. It was stretched and glued down on new backing and copied. Using Photoshop I was able to remove, at the customer’s request the stepmother and create a new portrait of her father.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Front Desk (1/2 or full day), Computer input, Arranging displays, Moving help, Grant writers, Interviewers, History researchers Newsletter Accessions Manager Call the Museum at 913-294-4940 Our e-mail address is: micomuseum@gmail.com KEYBOARD PEOPLE WANTED We are trying to copy all of our obituary card files into a computer data base. Presently There are over 30,000 scanned obit cards that need to be renamed with the persons info on the card. The museum will provide USB thumb drives to volunteers who could take the drives back to their computers and rename them at their own pace. Another new service at the Museum, We can now digitize 8mm & Super 8 mm movie film which can be transfered to DVDs or viewed on your computer. This is in addition to restoration of photos and video transfer

to DVD format I can also duplicate printed material like old cookbooks and turn them into digital files that can be viewed on com puter screen or printed out in a booklet.. Using a digital process the museum now has the ability to provide the service to restore your precious images. We can fix damaged pictures, add a person to a group photo or take someone out. Faded out prints can be brought back and made to look like new. Drag those old films out of the closet and turn them into gifts.

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