Category: David Tewes
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Look Who’s Talking (About David Tewes) Now
TPT (Twin Cities Public Television, also known locally as channel 2) did a story on David Tewes and his museum exhibit, which grew out of the website that I created in 2017. Amateur photographer David Tewes captured scenes in Minnesota and out west after World War II until 1955. About 800 Kodachrome slides were found…
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A website I made is now a museum exhibit
Three years ago, I wrote about how I found old Kodachrome slides in my father-in-law’s attic, scanned them, and put them online at DavidTewes.com. In an unexpected turn of events, photos from that website are now on display at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. Jon Swanson, the curator of collections and exhibits at the museum,…
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An Aleutian Latrine
Can you help me determine the author of a humorous World War II poem about toilets? While I was clearing out my late father-in-law’s attic, I came across three cases of Kodachrome slides taken by his late cousin David Tewes, who had been a soldier stationed in Alaska during World War II. Among the slides…
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Putting 1940s Kodachrome Slides on the Web
When my wife Christina and I were cleaning out her late father’s garage, we came across two cases of Kodachrome slides that included nighttime shots of downtown Minneapolis in the 1940s and 1950s, pictures of daily life in nearby Hutchinson, Minnesota, and some World War II photographs, like this one of a group of soldiers…