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Digital Reproductions by Sherm Stelter
Digital images can be created from any source visible to the human eye.  Documents, photos and celluloid film photo negatives, glass plate negatives, paintings,  pictures, lithographs, antiquated magazine adds, posters, calendars, pastels, charcoals, quilts, micro film etc...in short any thing you can photograph.
     Digital images are easy to restore with photo software and are an excellent way to rejuvenate older deteriorating photos and historical documents such as birth and marriage certificates and passports.  Images the size of a postage stamp can be enlarged to an 8X10 print and a 3x5 postcard can be resized to a 16x20 poster.  All images are transferred to a CD viewable from your computers CD drive and are printable by me, you, or at any photo service!
     Highly portable equipment developed by myself allows me to do
on site imaging of large volumes of difficult to transfer items such as glass plate negatives.  Your current photo albums taking up space in your closet can be digitized and stored  {approximately 500 pictures} on one Compact Disc.  By transforming the images to .jpg format they can be compressed  or expanded to almost any size with minimum loss of resolution {lossey}.  All that is needed is digital photo software to view, or print this universally dominate file format.  One or one thousand images digitized!
     See the page on
restoring, enhancing, & enlarging to understand what is possible after reproducing an image digitally!
     The images on the first four pages are compressed to 20 kb or less for faster down loading via phone line internet connections.   Picture files large enough to print high quality 4" x 6" pictures can be found on the
Mecan page along with help for beginners and tips on how to save, print, and e-mail digital photographs. 
See historical photos from villages of Princeton & Marquette, in Green Lake Co. and Montello, Germania, & Neshkoro in Marquette Co. WI  also the Mecan River and Puckaway Lake on the Fox River.
The
Examples page displays photographic processes that were in common use during the late 1800's.   Don't miss historic Classic Country Portraits.

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Contact me by E-mail, phone, or mail for reproducing, resizing, or restoring your photos and custom imaging and printing services. 

1904 glass plate
Great Links:
1882 Central Europe Maps
Wisconsin County plat maps
Victorian Pastels from Spain
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Mecan, Marquette Co, Wisconsin ...Early 1900's & links to historical Germania photos
Examples: Tin Types, Card, Postage Stamp, & Locket
Restoring, enhancing, & enlarging your photograph! 
3-D Stereoscope Images Samples (aka Stereo opticon)
Digital Reproductions Galleries:  Allow time to load if your internet service is slow {56 kb/s modem}
Classic Country portraits {gallery}
Tintypes 1897 and earlier
Photographers with glass plate cameras
Farming at the turn of the century
Country homes Mystery's 100 years ago & today
Rural country homes 
Family was all that mattered
1895-1911Antique posters {gallery}
1926-1930 Ford Model T and Ford Model A original advertisements {gallery}
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The glass plate photographs are some of the 500 or so surviving photographs taken by J.H. Luebke in the Marquette, Princeton, Mecan, Germania, Neshkoro, Wisconsin area. Tintypes {44 of them} are estimated to be from 1895-1897 at which time it apears that he was an apprentice at Herman Megow Studio of Princeton Wisconsin.  The glass plate photographs date from 1898-1912 and many of the portraits,if not all, were of first or second generation Immigrants from what is known as Netze Kreise area of Posen, Prussia.  The garments and customs they brought from these rural villages in Province Posen are exceptionally displayed in this collection of photographs. 

Adolph Luebke was a school teacher at what was known as the Mecan German School.  Adolph is believed to be the uncle of J.H. Luebke and is the father of Lillian {Luebke} Krueger, Edith {Luebke} Schultz, and Florence {Luebke} Huenerburg,  {Mrs Carl Huenerburg of Princeton, Wis.}
Geneology Note:  The River Netze Kreise {Kreise = cities} run from Bromberg to Nackel to Osiek to Wirsitz to Schneidmuhl to Schonlanke to Czarnikau to Filehne to Kreuz {in Province Posen, West Prussia, & Brandenberg}.  About 100 miles east of Berlin, Germany in Province Brandenburg, the River Netze joins with River Warthe / Wartha, and about 50 miles east of Berlin, Germany the Warthe joins with River Oder then flows due north to the Pomeranian Bay of the Baltic Sea.
See the link above to 1882 Central Europe Maps.
My great grand parents were known to hail from
Sipiory, Schubin County - Gembitz, Behle, Lemnitz, Straduhn Kruszewo, and Stieglitz, Czarnikau County - Heide Dombrowke, Obornick County - Nalentscha, Ratschin, & Heliodorowo, Kolmar County (Chodziesen) [ Province Posen ] - Battrow, Cziskowo, Sypniewo in Flatow County [West Prussia]..{all small villages along the River Netze not shown on the 1882 Central Europe Maps}
Contact me if you want to know precisely where these villages are located.
All the small villages were located in a country called Prussia {Preussen} untill 1871 when the various states {provinces} were combined to form what was known as "The German Empire" but more commonly called Germany.