People of Syracuse, the Library of Congress needs your help!
Especially Cary O’Dell, the hardworking Boards Assistant at the Library’s National Recording Preservation Board, Moving Image, Broadcast and Recorded Sound Division.
About six years ago, the Library acquired a treasure-trove of photos, more than 30,000 images, enough to fill 36 file cabinets, from a collector in New Jersey who operated a business called Unshredded Nostalgia. The collection mostly contained movie and television stills.
Many of the photos had ties to the Syracuse-area and most of them came with some sort of identification.
But not all.
By the beginning of 2020, O’Dell and others had successfully managed to identify all but 56 of the images. During the Library’s quarantine during the coronavirus crisis, he has managed to whittle that number down to 48.
Although his identification rate is an incredible 99.84%, he says it is the remaining unidentified photos that are keeping him up at night.
“I call the project a success,” he said. “But it is these last few images that dance in my head when I’m watching TV or on Facebook.”
He reached out to syracuse.com for help and our readers to help ID eight of the remaining images that, he thinks, “might be, not positive” related to the Syracuse area.
If you have any ideas on the who, what, where or when of the following eight photos please email Cary O’Dell or Johnathan Croyle.
(Readers may recall that they have been asked to help with this project before. In 2018, readers were asked to ID the woman holding a camera in a Herald-Journal photograph.)
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PHOTO 1
Of all the photos, this one has the most information with it.
O’Dell has identified the mustached man on the left as actor Jerome Raphael.
The photo was taken by Frederick Boyd of Camillus, but his family has no idea who the man on the right is.
O’Dell says the clothes and suitcase appear to be late 60′s era.
Could it have been taken at Hancock Airport?
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PHOTO 2
This photo of a young woman holding some sort of award shaped like New York State had zero information with it.
O’Dell thought it might be a New York representative to the Miss America pageant and reached out to the organization. No luck.
With a mini-skirt, hand band and go-go boots, this photo screams 1960s or early 1970s.
Anybody recognize this young woman?
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PHOTO 3
O’Dell believes this distinguished gentleman may have been a musician or might have performed with a local symphony or orchestra.
There was no information with this image.
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PHOTO 4
This image is a great example of O’Dell’s dedication to this project.
The certificate on the wall says Sesostris, which brought O’Dell to a Shriner’s Temple in Roca, Nebraska. The man in the photo is wearing a Shriners’ pin on his lapel.
Despite this, the photo was taken by a Tisdale Studio which operated at 333 South Warren Street in Syracuse.
His guess is it that might have been a TV or radio host.
Look familiar to anybody?
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PHOTO 5
O’Dell thinks is photo is from the play “Knickerbocker Holiday” because of the 1647 date in the scene.
But, noting the primitive set, does not think it was from the Hollywood film or a Broadway production. He thinks it must be a local theater.
He has not been able to ID a single one of the actors.
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PHOTO 6
Syracuse is known as a city with exciting plans that do not quite come through.
Is this one of them?
O’Dell’s best guess is that this might be some sort of futuristic cineplex. Moviegoers enter in the exciting door on the right for tickets and refreshments.
Does anybody remember this plan?
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PHOTO 7
O’Dell was sure this was a British musician, but his family said, “Close, but no.”
Resemble anyone you remember?
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PHOTO 8
This photo of a woman singing during a performance again had no information to go on.
Any ideas?
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This feature is a part of CNY Nostalgia, a section on syracuse.com. Send your ideas and curiosities to Johnathan Croyle at jcroyle@syracuse.com or call 315-427-3958.
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