Old Photo Negatives Come Back to Life
An Interview with Jack von Euw, Curator of The Bancroft Library Pictorial Collection

"If you would like to take a journey through Bay Area history, you might want to try U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library. There is a collection of photographs that can take you through it all.

A newspaper in a box on the street captures a moment in time. Every day on page one, there is at least a picture. However, what is news today becomes old tomorrow, until someone like Jack Von Eau of U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library views those pictures from a distance in time.

"I probably looked at several thousand," says Jack." - Wayne Freedman, ABC7

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