The porch lost longtime member John Lederer from Oregon, WI .. John was a frequent and often eloquent contributor to the list and his departure is a great loss. Our condolences to John's family ..

The published obituary follows. Thanks to Andrew Lederer for passing that and the pictures along:

Now Available on DVD
The Chronicle of the EAIA !

For the very first time, you can read the full text, with images, of every issue from 1933 through 2008. Compiled on a single DVD, the Digial Edition of The Chronicle is fully indexed and equipped with a Fast Search feature.

Included are images of all of the full color inserts. Many are rare advertisements, broadsides and handbills of famous manufacturers as well as reproductions of artwork that closely follows the topics of trades and industries.

The Digital Chronicle is best viewed with Acrobat Reader 8 or 9. Fast Search will only function with these programs. But rest assured that if viewed with alternative PDF viewers, the full contents of the DVD will be usable.

Gary Roberts has lit up the purchase links for PayPal on Toolemera Press .  Click HERE to go there now and order your copy  (and hey, grab one to stick in your Galootaclaus stash for the next round!!)

I had the pleasure over the weekend of meeting Mr Robert Siegel .. "Sieg" is a longtime EAIA member and founding MW-TCA member. He stopped by to borrow the current MW-TCA membership directory and gave me the honor of showing my not so distinguished shop to a very distinguished gentleman!  A bit about him below and further down, a listing of tools he has begun to liquidate..

We've had a lot of new members lately! Are you a new (or old!) registered user who wants to post pictures?  Read on! 

1. Log in
2. Select Image Central from Main Menu

Stage 1 - need an album to put your pictures in

3. On the GIC screens, ignore the top set of menu items, choose Create/Order My Albums
4. Album manager will open, click New
5. New Album will appear above but don't go there just yet - below there is an input box that says "New Album"
6. Highlight it and type over it with the name for your new album
7. Click "Apply Modifications", then click OK on the pop up confirm dialog
8. System will create your album and tell you so
9. Click "Continue"

Stage 2 - putting pics in your album

10. Now in the top set of menu items, choose "Upload File"
11. File dialog will open, browse and choose up to 5 pics from your local drive, click Continue 

* special note about the files ... web browsers typically know about 3 flavors of image files .. GIF, JPG, and PNG.  For Windows users, this is taken for granted and your image software will put a file extension on ... ie, image.gif, image.jpg, image.png.  Mac users - you will probably need to name the files with the extension manually .... something called "image" is quite valid on the Mac, but a web browser won't know what to do with it, so when you save, tack on .gif, .jpg, or .png depending on what format you are saving.

12. File(s) will be uploaded .. another success dialog, click Continue
13. On next screen, select your album from the drop down, give a title and description
14. Click Continue
15. Another pop up, click OK

You did it!

It gets easier as you do more!!!