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Jun 20 2006

Opening of 5th exhibition in our museum was met with great interest. We thank to everyone who came for the opening despite the extremly hot weather.

Jun 25 2006

438 new photos in the archive

: Berlin 1936

: Josef Jindřich Šechtl with Josef Ferdinand Šechtl on his head

: Josef Holeček (1853-1929), writer

: Karel Němec, teacher at School of Agriculture in Tábor, son of Božena Němcová

: Karel Želenský (1865-1935), actor of national theatre

Holidays in Adriatic, perhaps in Cirkvenica, Malina swimming, Holidays in Adriatic, perhaps in Cirkvenica II, Holidays in Adriatic, perhaps in Cirkvenica III, Holidays in Adriatic, perhaps in Cirkvenica IV, Holidays in Adriatic, perhaps in Cirkvenica V, Holidays in Adriatic, perhaps in Cirkvenica VI, Holidays in Adriatic, perhaps in Cirkvenica VII, Karlovy Vary (Charlesbad), Karel Želenský, Czech actror, Josef Holeček (1853-1929), Emanuel Chalupný (1879-1958), Karel Němec, son of famous writer Božena Němcová

May 25 2006

We are celebrating having reached 5000 digitized photographs from 35mm film. We have been working on digitizing this format since March 2005, and have already digitized the majority of preserved 35mm films by Josef Jindřich Šechtl. We plan to prepare an exhibition in our museum in 2007, of Josef Šechtl's photographs, taken using vintage Leica I and II cameras, from the 1920s to the 1950s.

However, our project of digitizing our archive is not complete yet. We still need to process a number of glass plate negatives of sizes greater than 18×24cm, and we have so far only experimented with digitizing medium and large format films. Currently the digitized archive consists of: 7500 digitized glass plate negatives dating from 1869 to 1950s; 267 films (6×6 or 6×9 cm) from 1950s to 1990s; 750 photographic prints dated from 1866 to 1950s; 300 hand-colored slides dating from 1900s to 1930s; and more. Overall, as of 25th May 2006, it contains 13635 photographs, with 334 new photos added to the archive since our last update.

334 new photos in the archive

: Who was M. Hart? (photograph from 1950)

: Horseriding 1934

Main square at a time of building new house of financial institute, 1935, Horseriding 1934, Majáles celebration with Marie Šechtlová, Wedding of Votýpková, Funeral of Doležal, Karolín house 1950, M. Hart, Prague street 1934, New jewish cemetery, New jewish cemetery - thombs, Pacov, Nová Ves u Chýnova 1937, Portraits of students in Planá nad Lužnicí, Funeral of Jan Voseček, Family photos from Soběslav (relatives of Božena), Marie Holzknechtová- Kumherová

May 18 2006

Date of the opening of next exhibition was set and we extended current exhibition till June 16th.

207 new photos in the archive

: Cow transport

: Nová ves u Chýnova, 1937

: In the village, 1950s

: Amelioration, 1950s

: Unidentified speaker on the celebration of putting base stone of telephone switchboard in Tábor, 1947

: Antonín Čermák, mayor of Chicago and Soumar, mayor of Tábor, in the front of confectioner's store in Tábor, approx. 1932

: Market on main square

Unknown event under the Black bridges in Tábor, Antonín Čermák, mayor of Chicago in Tábor, 1932, Marked at Žižka Square in Tábor, 1932, Agriculture works, 1950s-1960s, Sokol swimming place, Old cemetory, Base stone for telephone centrale, 1947, Nová Ves u Chýnova 1937

May 13 2006

157 new photos in the archive

: Unknown event in the front of Commercial Bank

: Josef Šechtl walking first time to school, 1931

: First country wide exhibition of professional photographers, Brno, year unknown

: First country wide exhibition of professional photographers, Brno, year unknown

Josef Šechtl first time in sch ool, 1931, 35mm film, Unknown even with Sokol and Soldie rs in front of commercial bank, Tábor, 35mm film, First country-wide exhib ition of professional photographers in Brno, 35mm film, Fountain on Kžiřík Square, Juč Janeček, 35mm film, A. Kroupa

May 5 2006

New gallery of photographs by the first photographer in Tábor, Alexander Seik, that was shown at 4th exhibit of Museum Šechtl and Voseček.

Apr 30 2006

35 new photos in the archive

: Regional exhibit in Tábor 1902

: Sokol meet 1920

Apr 29 2006

Remaining photographs from our Prokudin-Gorsky Exhibition are now available online. The exhibit was extended to end of May

Apr 21 2006

83 new photos in the archive
Glass plate negatives:

: Selling the fish, 1884

Photos:

: Powerplant powering the first electric railway from Tábor to Bechyně, 1903

: Opening the railway from Tábor to Bechyně, 1903

Apr 17 2006

More modernisation of scripts for formating our web pages. If the new look renders incorrectly somewhere, please, write us.

Apr 2 2006

12 new photos in the archive

: City council. Second from the left is sitting Alexander Seik (probably city mayor at the time of taking the photograh) and on his left hand side future city mayor Kotrbelec

: Children

March 31 2006

28 new photos in the archive

: House in Chotoviny

: Sudoměřice Hotel

Scripts producing our pages was modernized and webpages are now using Unicode and Cascade Style Sheets. We hope that numberous little changes in our webpage design are improving their quality. If something now renders wrong for you, please let us know.

Biography of Ignác Šechtl was updated using one written for our 4th exhibit and translated by John Titchener.

March 28 2006

39 new photos in the archive

: Work on school farm of Agriculture school, 1926

: Skeletons, 1926

March 27 2006

Calendars for year 2007

We are preparing new calendars for year 2007: calendar of historical photographs of Tábor and calendar of photographs of technology of early 20th century. Both calendars will be printed in limited volumes, so if you are interested to order higher amount of copies, please email us to address muzeum@sechtl-vosecek.ucw.cz.

March 19 2006

The first photographs from our Prokudin-Gorsky Exhibition are now available online

62 new photos in the archive

: Tábor from Kotnov tower

: Carpenter Vitoušek

Construction works 1928, Fire brigade festival in Chýnov 1928, Savings Bank, Interors of Savings Bank, Hospital 1929

March 7 2006

72 new photos in the archive

: Pub on Exhibition of agriculture and army in Tábor, 1929

: Armored cars on Exhibition of agriculture and army in Tábor, 1929

: Statue of Agriculture company in Tábor, 1929

: Savings Bank, 1929

: Eternit shop, 1929

: Works on Agriculture school in Tábor

: Savings bank in Tábor

March 5 2006

We put on-line photographs from opening event and first part of texts written for the exhibit. In the following days we will continue in making on-line versions of the posters from exhibit as well as captions of the photographs.

Feb 28 2006

Opening of 5th exhibition in our museum was met with great interest. Lynn E. Brooks, head (retired) of Digital Scan Center of Library of Congress The Exhibition was by Lynn E. Brooks, Head (retired) of Digital Scan Center, U. S. Library of Congress and Pavel Scheufler, historian of photography. Russian songs was performed by Darja Kosilova, Pervouralsk (near Ekaterinburg).

Feb 16 2006

We are finishing the works on new exhibition

On our new exhibtion you will find approximately 90 photographs by Prokudin-Gorsky, 60 of them prepared by photographer Walter Frankhauser originally for exhibition on U.S. Library of Congress, 30 digital renderings are new. The captions was extended by Jiří Kohout and will be printed with orientation maps first time with typography by Jakub Troják.

Feb 14 2006

92 new photos in the archive We are again digitalising the negatives 18×24cm.

: Orphanage

: Bakery of Karel Krch

: Stationary engine powering treshing machine

: Long gone buildings of Tábor brewery

: Unknown court

35mm film:

: Moving Nacillis

: Cutting wood at Šechtl and Voseček atheliers

Jan 29 2006

111 new photos in the archive

: Leave-taking with 48th regiment 1936

: Leave-taking with 48th regiment 1936

Saying good bye to regiment 48/II 1934, Saying good bye to regiment 48/II 1936, Funeral of teacher of english language Mrs. Magersteinová

Jan 25 2006

We finally found problem causing certain version of Microsoft Internet Explorer to stop displaying images after visitng certain parts of our digital archive. The problem was caused by bug in Internet Explorer in reading EXIF data. As an workaround we removed all EXIF data from images on our webpages so the bug should no longer reproduce.

Jan 22 2006

60 new photographies by Marie Šechtlová from 1960s and 1870s. We are thankful to Pavel Scheufler and Kateřina Scheuflerová who allowed us to scan them on Imacon scanner.

: Today destructed parking place in Paris, 1970s

: In Paris, 1970s

Zdeněk Karel Slabý, writer, Vladimír Paleček, czech painter, Bohumil Bydžovský (1880-1969), mathematician, Václav Sivko (1923-1974), graphic artist
120 new 35mm films

: ZOO in Berlín 1936

: Sansoussi 1936

Visiting ZOO in Berlín 1936, San Soussi 1936, Hospital in Tábor 1941

Jan 21 2006

43 new photos in the archive

: Dresden 1936

: Firt rounded house in the world was build by architect Peter Birkenholz in Dresden 1928, photograph from year 1936

: Dresden 1936

: Dresden 1936

: Exhibition of armors in Dresden 1936

Jan 16 2006

66 new photos in the archive

: New York 1976

: Celebrating 200th anniversary of independence of USA, 1976

: ZOO in Berlín 1936

: Penguins in Berlín ZOO 1936

Visiting ZOO in Berlín 1936, USA - celebrations of 200th Anniversary of independence, 1976

Jan 14 2006

92 new photos in the archive

: Zvíkov

: Hair dressers

35mm film:

: Excavations?

: Pushing car on Jáchymov 1946

In unidentified church, 35mm film From Tábor to churches, 35mm film Excavations Jáchymov on 35mm film from year 1946 II

Jan 10 2006

Our museum will be unforutnately closed one extra week.

Jan 9 2006

New guestbook and section with interesting discoveries. Discussion forum now allows uploading of photos.

150 new photographies by Marie Šechtlová from 1960s. We are thankful to Pavel Scheufler and Kateřina Scheuflerová who allowed us to scan them on Imacon scanner.

: In Kiev, 1963

: Vladimír Tesař 1969

: Irina Zubkoskaja, dancer in Petersburg, 1963

: Homeless in New York 1963

Russia, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Tbilisi, Odessa, Vlasta Matulová, Czech actress Ladislav Pešek, Czech actor, Jaroslav Marvan, Czech actor, Vladimír Tesař, Actors, Donár Šajner, poet, Painters, Václav Jirů

20 new photographs borrowed for digitalisation by Mrs. Táborská. New are especially photographs of Tábor from 1950s by Josef Šechtl.

: View from church in Tábor, 1950s

: Original look of houses in Sezimovo ústí

Jan 7 2006

50 new photographies by Marie Šechtlová from 1960s. We are thankful to Pavel Scheufler and Kateřina Scheuflerová who allowed us to scan them on Imacon scanner.

: František Hrubín near Hejtman, 1963

: Jiří Voskovec in New York, 1963

: Herzán, approx. 1966

: Herzán

New York, Moscow, Portraits and figures of writers, František Hrubín, Jan Noha, Korney Chukovsky, Leonid Maximovich Leonov, Josef Šíma, Zdeněk Sklenář (1910-4-15 - 1986-4-19), Jiří Voskovec, Marie Michaela Šechtlová
New 35mm films:

: Nový kostelec, oldest romanesque church in region

: School group photo

Nový Kostelec

Jan 5 2006

We experimentally set up discussion forums. New 35mm films:

: Celebrating victory in soccer (over Rome).

: Can you recognize the match or players?

Funeral in Mladá Vožice
32 new photographs borrowed for digitalisation by Mrs. Táborská. New are especially photographs of Tábor from 1950s by Josef Šechtl.