Conrad Altenbernd III, of Lawrence, has done a lot of research since he bought an antique box camera for $25 at a garage sale on Rhode Island Street in the mid-1980s from a family who owned the former Miller Printing Press.
He found the collection of old photos inside the case for the camera, and with the help of staff at the Watkins Museum of History, discovered that they were taken in the early 1900s.

photo by: Nick Krug

Lawrence resident Conrad Altenbernd poses with an old Seneca No. 2 camera that he purchased at a Lawrence garage sale. Unbeknownst to Altenbernd, within the various cases that accompanied the camera were several glass negatives of Lawrence along with a handful of old images of families, presumably taken by a previous owner from the early 1900s.

photo by: Nick Krug

Lawrence resident Conrad Altenbernd holds up a glass negative of the Kansas River and many buildings along the south bank that no longer exist today. Altenbernd discovered the slide in an antique box camera that he bought at a Lawrence garage sale.

photo by: Nick Krug

Several early 1900s images were found in boxes that accompanied an antique box camera purchased at a garage sale by Lawrence resident Conrad Altenbernd.

photo by: Nick Krug

Lawrence resident Conrad Altenbernd found a collection of old photos inside the case for an antique box camera that he purchased at a garage sale.

photo by: Nick Krug

Lawrence resident Conrad Altenbernd found a collection of old photos inside the case for an antique box camera that he purchased at a garage sale.

photo by: Nick Krug

Lawrence resident Conrad Altenbernd found a collection of old photos inside the case for an antique box camera that he purchased at a garage sale.

photo by: Nick Krug

Lawrence resident Conrad Altenbernd found a collection of old photos inside the case for an antique box camera that he purchased at a garage sale.

photo by: Nick Krug

Lawrence resident Conrad Altenbernd found a collection of old photos inside the case for an antique box camera that he purchased at a garage sale.

photo by: Nick Krug

Lawrence resident Conrad Altenbernd found a collection of old photos inside the case for an antique box camera that he purchased at a garage sale.