This week Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, is joined by Peter Dumas who owns Picture This Antiques in Massachusetts. While he initially began working with vintage print advertising, he now has expanded to sell antique and vintage cameras.

Peter and Maureen discuss cameras, snapshots, and photography with vintage cameras, as well as how the progression of digital technology has helped the expansion of the camera industry. They specifically look at the history of Kodak, Epson scanners, and Polaroid cameras, as well as how camera collecting can be a wonderful hobby. 

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Episode 120  Good Pictures: Amateur Photography and Our Family with Art Historian Kim Beil

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About My Guest:

Peter Dumas is the owner of Picture This Antiques, founded in 2013 in West Boylston Massachusetts. While he started specializing in vintage print advertising, he began selling antique and vintage cameras in mid-2017, and since then has sold nearly 600 cameras to happy customers nationwide. He’s a frequent vendor at the Providence Flea as well as at various antique shows in New England and New York, and sells at three store locations in Central Massachusetts.

About Maureen Taylor:

Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London, and Canada.  She’s the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira).  She’s been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website, and also writes guidebooks,

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