LIVING HISTORY
they were stored in the crawl space
beneath the building. Catherine Hill
Flowers, Harry Hill’s granddaughter,
traded the glass negatives for repairs
to the house. Gladwin’s son, Tommy,
helped his dad collect the negatives.
“I don’t remember too much about
getting the glass negatives,” Tommy
Gladwin said. “I just remember some
of them were outside in the dirt.”
At the museum, Brynn Batsche
and Harry Quatraro are organizing
and cataloging the Hill collection and
storing the negatives and prints in
archival materials. Quatraro, who has
worked with the collection for nearly
three decades, has scanned hundreds
of the negatives and is at work
removing blemishes with computer
software. To give the photographs
added significance, as much information
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as possible will be gathered
about each image.
Bob Gladwin worked for years
cleaning, printing, identifying and
organizing the Hill negatives he acquired.
The bulk of them went to the
county, but he gave some to Tommy,
who keeps them, carefully arranged in
archival boxes.
ED DRONDOSKI
By coincidence, another Harry — Harry Quatraro — has been keeper of the Harry Hill archive at the
St. Lucie County Regional History Center for nearly three decades. >>