Photographs

The Local History Room has an extensive collection of Albion area photographs.  The Albion Historical Society transferred its archives to the Local History Room in 1997.  The AHS holdings include many rare late 19th and early 20th century photographs of Albion families, business and industries, clubs and organizations, and other Albion area subjects.  A collection of early 20th century postcards are included in this collection.

The Justin Glathart slide collection consists of over 2000 slides of Albion area locations photographed over three decades, beginning in the 1950s.  A grant from the Community Foundation funded the duplication of this wonderful collection.  The generous loan of the original slides  by the Glathart family for archiving makes it possible to to loan the duplicates for educational purposes.

The Local History room also has a growing digital photograph collection.  We invite loan of photographs of Albion interest that can be scanned for this collection.  If  you have a photograph that you are willing to loan or donate, please notify us.  One digitized copy will be provided of each photograph loaned for reproduction.

Copies of photographs from the Local History Room collections may be obtained upon request.  Fees for a scanned photograph are $3.00 for Albion area patrons and $5.00  for requests from outside our service area.  For this fee, we will provide either an e-mail copy, a digital copy,  or a printed copy.  Written permission to publish is required. 

Notice: We have experienced unauthorized, undocumented use of many of our photographs on the internet. We request of persons posting photographs that they have acquired from the Albion Historical Society Collection for other publication purposes or who have acquired our photographs thru secondary sources to cease use of them on their internet sites pending formal written authorization from the Local History Room, at the risk of public exposure for unethical copyright use.