Saturday July 10th at 2 pm at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, $5.
Experience the depths of mines, the heights of Thunder Cape and the caves of Pictured Rocks. You will see breathtaking waterfalls and early views of the ships, mining camps, rivers and towns along the shore of Lake Superior.

Starting in Marquette, Michigan, the home of stereo photographer B. F. Childs, you travel by Mackinac boat all the way around Lake Superior. A Native American guide leads you through various Ojibwa camps and early copper, silver, and iron mines. The trip features the Soo Locks, Pictured Rocks, Marquette, Houghton, the Apostle Islands, Duluth and Thunder Bay.

Jack Deo of Superior View in Marquette, Michigan features the 3D photographic work of B. F. Childs. Childs, a Marquette resident, was the premier photographer of the Lake Superior district. His stereographs from the 1870s have been digitized for 3D projection.

All images of the major rivers and waterfalls along the way were captured on glass, wet-plate negatives. Using computers and digital projection, these 130-year-old images, originally called "Gems of Lake Superior Scenery" are projected onto a large screen and viewed through special glasses. The show includes approximately 200 3-D photographs.

B.F Childs was born in Wilmington, Vermont in 1841 and died in California in 1921. He worked for a long time in Marquette Michigan and ran the Childs Art Gallery which he founded in 1860. He sold it to Charles Cole.

Jack Deo sees himself as the appreciative heir and keeper of a distinguished tradition of studio photographers who used great energy and artistry to chronicle the Michigan Upper Peninsula's development and to preserve records of the natural world.

Jack's archive of historic photos began in the late 1970s when, just out of Northern Michigan University, he began collecting old cameras at auctions. He had a chance to buy up the extensive contents of the mothballed studio of the B. F. Childs Art Gallery, from the 1870s into the 1950s.

 "When I ran into the Childs collection, it was destiny," Jack believes. Everything came together for him: his interest in history, old photographic equipment, and printmaking; his central Upper Peninsula location in Marquette; and the synergies with his own growing photography studio. That find inspired him to buy the contents of many more studios.

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LAKE SUPERIOR TIME MACHINE
Sponsored by the Thunder Bay Art Gallery and the Thunder Bay Museum
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 1080 Keewatin St.
2 pm, Admission $5, Theag.ca