Update: 27feb04 - new text in blue
Update: 28dec03 - Johannes has been cleaning up the slide images
before
they are printed. With over 1000 slides this will delay availability
until
early 2004. The dollar continues to decline against the euro and is now
at about $1.25 US = $1 Euro. This will affect the cost of slide sets.
1. Where do the slides come from?
During our stay in Dehradun, India in 2002, some faithful Indian initiates had shown us, among other things, the slides which late Harcharan Singh Ji had collected over the years and used for satsangs. Those slides appeared to be in a very bad shape. Covered with dust and fungus on quite a few, it would be just a matter of time for them to be completely destroyed. The Indian brothers, sad about the condition of their beloved Master’s pictures, asked us: "Do you think anything could be done to prevent them from further deteriorating?" As certain techniques are not available in India, they gave us the slides to take them back to Germany for preservation.
2. How were the slides treated?
After thoroughly browsing the internet we came to the conclusion that the slides could indeed be washed in a special cleansing solution, provided by Kodak. However, this solution is not available on the European market. Jim Alexander kindly helped us out and bought two bottles of the liquid in Atlanta. During the following months, Claudia and Anne worked on the slides by first removing the old mounts, then cleaning them in the special solution, drying, remounting and numbering them and finally filing their contents in a long detailed list, with the help of Charlie Fulcher, who managed to identify on them quite a number of people and places. Cross references to similar slides, the enlargement of a certain slide or a certain series of slides (e.g. Master in a chair) are also given in this list.
3. The contents
Total number of slides: 1090
a) 34 slides are with Baba Sawan Singh Ji
b) approx. 1030 slides are with Sant Kirpal Singh Ji, out of which 300 slides are with Master alone. 2/3 of those slides had been taken in India, 1/3 during His world tours
c) some slides were taken of Master’s handwritings, certificates and awards
4. Quality
Those are old slides, not to be compared with the technical standards of our time (no studio quality!). However, 2/3 of the slides are in good quality, the remaining 1/3 consist of half fair and half less than fair (out-of-focus, damaged) quality.
Brief overview
Topic | Slide- No. |
Baba Sawan Singh Ji | 1-34 |
Master in the 40’s and 50’s | 35-70 |
Master solo in India (>50’s) | 71-189 |
Master solo - places? | 190-220 |
Master in India 60’s | 221-269 |
Master in India 70’s | 270-395 |
Sawan Ashram 70’s | 396-458 |
Manav Kendra | 459-506 |
Unity of Man, Delhi Feb 1974 | 507-663 |
June 74 | 664-739 |
July/August 74 | 740-747 |
August 74 | 748-793 |
1st World Tour | 794-821 |
2nd World Tour | 822-866 |
3rd World Tour | 867-1068 |
Different photos in India | 1069-1083 |
Master’s Handwritings | removed
due to
poor reproduction quality |
Awards and honors given to Master | 1084-85 |
5. Copies from slides
Available are copies of the complete set of Harcharan Singh’s slides only. After Kodak closed their central laboratory in Germany, the copies will be made from a private company in Germany at a price of 0,72 eurocents per slide, in a perfect quality. The complete set of 1085 unmounted slides will thus be 780 Euros, or 975 US $ (March 2004: 1 Euro = 1,25 US $) respectively.
If you would prefer the slides mounted (at 0,83 eurocents each), the complete set of 1085 mounted slides will be 900 Euros, or 1125 US $.
How to order
In case you are interested, please contact me by e-mail or postal mail. For payment, send an international money order.
It will not be possible to select certain
slides or a part thereof, as all this individual handling is very much
time consuming, and we just can’t do that.
7. Scanned slides on CDs
Currently, we are also in a process of having all slides scanned. The scanning is done professionally with a Nikon Coolscan III, at a resolution of 2700 dpi, output will be in TIF-format originals (27 MB). This resolution equals the resolution of the slide itself, thus it will be possible to reproduce slides from each scanned image at any time later on. This will also be the data-format to make print-outs from.
Further we will convert the TIF-format images to JPEG-format for easy viewing on the computer screen (1024*768 resolution) with a file-size of 500 KB or less.
Meanwhile we have done considerable color and damage correction to the scans. A CD will be added free to each order when shipped, containing the original scans in low resolution, for reference.
Material:
We are using the new super-azo Verbatim Datalife Pro-CDs with a warranty of 500 years …
Prices:
In TIF-format (2700 dpi-scans), 25 slides will fit on 1 CD (700 MB), thus 1 complete set will be of approx 40 CDs. Including a share for the scanning process, the complete set of 40 CDs will be 40 US $.
NEW: All scans are also available now on 7 DVDs, which will be 30 US $.
In JPEG-format (< 500 KB), probably all
slides will fit on 1 CD (700 MB). Included will be a slide-show
program module, which is not copyrighted. Including a share for the
scanning
process, the CD will be 8 US $.
How to order
In case you are interested, please contact me by e-mail or postal mail. Payment should be cash (letter) to: Johannes Haedrich, Ringstr. 5, 79252 Stegen, Germany.
CD-Orders can be placed any time from now.
General
Kindly indicate if you would like your slides or CDs by surface or air mail. You will be notified of the postage later on, which you can easily send cash through a letter.
With Love in HIM
Claudia, Johannes and Anne
Claudia & Johannes Haedrich, Ringstr. 5, 79252 Stegen, Germany, JHaedrich@t-online.de
Anne Bauer, Stresemannstr. 70, 76187 Karlsruhe, Germany, Anne.speedmail@t-online.de