Club News!

Annual Survey : Our annual survey is currently in progress until April 15th, so if you have not voiced your opinion please do so by clicking here and vote! The survey has been automated this year to make it easier. Results, discussion and actions based on the poll will be published at the end of the month. You can view the survey results real time by clicking here.

SITE UPDATES :

Cameras: Our most significant additions were an Anthony Champion, a Kodak string-set and a ROC Carlton cameras to our galleries

Images : A significant painted photograph by G&D Hay and an attributed Ross & pringle CDV Caller Haddies.

Info: Biography of Samuel Masury, Product Listing improvement - ROC ( an enormous undertaking so this will take years )

Member Articles : We had a new member article Daguerre's Diorama submitted to our site from our member Bill Walcker. You can read his story here and he also has a poster of Daguerre available if you contact him. See all member articles here.

NEW SITE TRAFFIC RECORD :

HC web site continues to be a regular stop for all the major search engines like Google, MSN, AOL and others. In the month of January we hit a new traffic record of over 64,000 page views on our site. Breaking the old record of 53,000.

Spring Membership Drive : This annual spring membership drive features a free T-shirt for members joining or upgrading to associate members. Its a nice tasteful shirt and a great deal for new members. It also helps support this site. Here are the shirts available http://www.historiccamera.com/shirt/shirt.html

It was suggested that we provide our members who sell on ebay auction an incentive to promote new membership. So we are taking the suggestion. Members are encouraged to offer free membership to HCCC with a complimentary PDF file of the First 50 Years of Photography. A historically significant article that was published in 1889. Have your winning bidder sign up using your name in the promotion code box and the new member will be emailed the ebook along with membership information. Just add this code to your description:

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Download printable member application forms to display on your shop counter or show table by following this link.

HCCC Shop: In addition to our new gift T-shirt designs we also have a new HCCC globe logo shirt representing our international venue. Additionally, we have a new poster available. Complimenting our Persall's detective camera poster we now have the Ross twin reflex camera girl. A nice matching pair. Click Here to go Shopping

Suggestions: As always please submit your suggestions, show or event info, and comments.

Articles Wanted: please contribute your articles to share with members. Please help make it a success by contributing. We are open to all suggestions!!

NOTE: Our Friends at the Western Photographic Historical Society - WPHS just got a new web site at http://wphsociety.org. Say Hi to Paul for me..

Special Featured Article #1: We are really excited to present to our club members the first glipse of HCCC's Biography of Edward A. Caner : 1890's Amateur Photographer. This is a world premier of Edwards work. HCCC is fortunate to be able to exhibit his cameras, a selection of his 750 images and the story of this pioneering Photography through the family members. Edward recorded some very interesting and historical imagery. Read his story and see a sample of his photos by clicking here.

Q4 New Memberships: Sign up for the quarter has been good. We had 26 new members join his quarter. This brings our membership up to 239 active. Please welcome our new members:

Don't Forget to update your home page with images of yourself, your collection, your work. Add info on your Bio and collection to share with others!

The complete list of members home pages are located here...

EMAIL Reminder: Remember if your email is not working your membership will be deleted. Update your membership information by following the link on the club page or click here! ( recently deleted melanie, photophunction, mickeyobe, monoblock, fotographica, vickiefowler, ericvsailing, johnl)

Sunday, May 8, 2005

Vancouver Kerrisdale Swap & Show
Vancouver, CANADA

Photographica Fair: Victoria, central London Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain

SECOND SUNDAY CAMERA SHOW & SALE: Wayne, NJ

Sunday, May 15, 2005

Camera Expo: Carson, CA (new location)

Photorama CAMERA SHOW & SALE: Chicago, Illinios

Sunday, May 22, 2005

Photorama CAMERA SHOW & SALE: Cleveland/Richfield, Ohio

Friday - Sunday, May 27-29, 2005

The OHIO CAMERA COLLECTORS SOCIETY
43rd ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL
AUCTION SHOW SALE: Columbus, Ohio
contact (740) 393-1314 Dan Hausman

Sunday, May 29, 2005

PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA- PHSC Woodbridge Ontario, Canada

CLEVELAND-RICHFIELD CAMERA SHOW

June

Sunday, June 5, 2005

Photorama CAMERA SHOW & SALE: Philadelphia /Trevose , PA

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Mid-America Camera Show: St. Louis, MO

SECOND SUNDAY CAMERA SHOW & SALE: Wayne, NJ

Sunday, June 19, 2005

Camera Expo: Carson, CA (new location)

July