The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah) recently published an intriguing article titled “What the picture man told me” by Berkley Hudson. It’s a detailed account of how the author helped to rescue a huge assortment of photographs from the O.N. Pruitt photography studio. This studio produced high-quality black-and white photos around the 1930’s many of which told stories of life in the Southern U.S., with glimpses into famous Americans’ lives and heartbreaking stories of racial injustice.

This article and others like it should be reminders to us of the power and importance of preserving and sharing our family photographs. While we may not be professional photographers like O.N. Pruitt, the technology we have today for taking and sharing pictures is light years ahead of where it was in the early days.

Read the entire article here.

Employees at Bryce Canyon Resort, Utah, circa 1935