Find familiar faces at the museum before December 5 or they'll be gone forever
(Talk of the Town photo by Jennifer Zartman Romano) Above, stacks of photos await identification at the museum. By Jennifer Zartman Romano
They are the nameless faces of Whitley County…they probably lived here, they could be related to you and you might know them.
For now, though, their images are neatly stacked in boxes.
The Whitley County Historical Society is eager to get the many remaining photos by photographer Bill Jones into the hands of local residents who will treasure them. The photos were donated the museum last year and, due to space concerns, the museum simply cannot keep all of them.
“The photos where taken by Jones Photo over several decades,” said the museum’s assistant director Angela Maley. “We still have tons of these left, and we would like to get them to their owners as soon as possible.”
Maley said people are welcome to come to the museum and search for any prints of their family or friends, free of charge.
“We are going to be disposing of these photos after December 5, 2008,” Maley added.
The Whitley County Historical Museum is open each week Tuesday-Thursday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m.-noon.