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02-01-2006, 10:33 AM
What is the Picture Project?
Volunteers from Erie, Pennsylvania traveled to Biloxi, Mississippi, in October with the goal of setting up a system to collect pictures found in the ruins after Hurricane Katrina, and eventually return these photos to their owners. Once there they learned that thousands of pictures had been found, yet no one knew who they belonged to or what to do with them.
The Picture Project is the Erie community's gift to the residents of the gulf coast and surrounding areas whose precious photos were lost in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In partnership with The Sun Herald, South Mississippi's Newspaper located in Biloxi, pictures from a six-county area will be collected and brought back to Erie where volunteers will catalogue and scan them onto the internet, where Kodak will assist in the project by printing the pictures free of charge and supplying the prints to those who claim them. article here... http://www.pictureproject.org/?pid=1
Things...clothing, books, furniture...can be replaced, but old family photos are treasures I'd be lost without. Can you imagine if you'd lost everything, how thrilled you'd be to get a couple of your photos back?
Volunteers from Erie, Pennsylvania traveled to Biloxi, Mississippi, in October with the goal of setting up a system to collect pictures found in the ruins after Hurricane Katrina, and eventually return these photos to their owners. Once there they learned that thousands of pictures had been found, yet no one knew who they belonged to or what to do with them.
The Picture Project is the Erie community's gift to the residents of the gulf coast and surrounding areas whose precious photos were lost in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In partnership with The Sun Herald, South Mississippi's Newspaper located in Biloxi, pictures from a six-county area will be collected and brought back to Erie where volunteers will catalogue and scan them onto the internet, where Kodak will assist in the project by printing the pictures free of charge and supplying the prints to those who claim them. article here... http://www.pictureproject.org/?pid=1
Things...clothing, books, furniture...can be replaced, but old family photos are treasures I'd be lost without. Can you imagine if you'd lost everything, how thrilled you'd be to get a couple of your photos back?