Letter to the Cultural Affairs Officer of Hastings County

We are contacting you to offer completely free of charge a new website for old photos of Hastings County.

It is likely that your locality already has one or more traditional or social media pages where old images of Hastings County are already shown, but Oldpik offers innovations and advantages that we think may be of interest to you:

• It is an open bank of images of Hastings County, both residents and the City Council itself can send photographs.
• The images appear with their description and date and can be sorted chronologically, by theme, or by upload date.
• Following the photos of Hastings County, on the same page, those of the nearest localities will appear Cloyne, Quinte West, Peterborough, Prince Edward and Oak Leaf
• The images of Hastings County will appear contextualized in higher geographic categories such as your province page, your autonomous community, your country and even continent or the entire world.

We are actually inviting Hastings County to be part of the first bank of old images from around the world that has been created on the Internet. Oldpik does not aim to show famous old photographs but rather to transfer to the web the millions of photographs that citizens have in paper format in cookie or shoe boxes and that these become part of the history of the last two centuries. You cannot imagine the hundreds or thousands of photographs of your locality that are in the hands of individuals and that, together, can create a truly impressive historical heritage for Hastings County. And at no cost.

From your institution in Hastings County you have two ways to be part of this wonderful project:

1. Helping residents digitize images from your own organization and uploading them to Oldpik with your own user account.
2. Encouraging the residents of Hastings County through social networks to digitize their photos and share them on the Hastings County page of Oldpik.com

OLDPIK / HASTINGS COUNTY
https://oldpik.com/place/north-america-canada-ontario-hastings-county