I have a few pictures of stuff I would like to email you and maybe you could tell me more about them.

Let me know if you are willing to help.

I might be able to tell you something about your stuff. I was a photojournalist for 40 years beginning in 1976.

How can I help?

I was an architectural photographer in addition to fine art large format (4x5) landscapes.

I'm also near WV.

I used to process traditional black and white film and print in black and white.

I did a little C-41 processing (color negative) and printing, but not too much. The same for E-6 film, which is color positives (slides).

It has been years for all of this, so others are likely to be more helpful, but I am willing to try if needed.

I will send the pictures from my phone.

henklephoto - I don't see an email for you. But if you send me an email, I will reply back.

jhe888 and Sig2340 - I sent you an email.

Thanks for your help guys!

WARNING, trip down memory lane follows!

I was a Commercial Photographer for 25 years.
The first years of that career I worked at large commercial studios that did catalogs ( Sears, Wards, Aldens, Spiegals, etc).
I worked in the Lab doing E-3 then E-6 processing (almost exclusively 8x10 and 11x14 Extachrome) along with thousands of B&W prints and Stats.
I also did 8x10 Extachrome color dupes and Cibachrome and Kodak type R prints.
Years later,

I was on a shoot in San Diego. It was for Bel Air cigarettes. We were doing a complicated shoot on the beach of running horses with models riding them. The Art Director wanted an in focus inner picture with the models but exploding zoom lines coming off them.
Back then every thing had to be done perfectly onto the film. All there were, were retouchers at the time to try and fix a mistake. No computers.
We had two Nikon F2 cameras electronically wired together, mounted on a bar so they were both aimed at the same target. One camera had a 50-300mm Nikor lens the other a fixed 50mm lens.
The object was to fire the cameras at a low shutter speed for the zoom camera and fast for the other camera. The problem we had was how to check if the zoom image could except the inner fixed image. One camera operator would zoom the image at the slow shutter speed trying to get a full zoom during the slow exposure.

There were no Polaroid 35mm camera backs that would work for this at the time.
The solution was a Tupperware container full of Kodak Dektol ( a very fast developer) B&W print paper developer and another Tupperware container with Fixer.

We would practice following the horses in a chase dune buggy with the cameras loaded with B&W Tri X film, shooting rolls of film from each camera. I would then take the film into the trunk of a rental car, close the trunk lid shut, in the dark take the film out of the 35mm film containers, swoosh it into my hand and push my hand with the film, into the Dektol container and move it around for about 30 sec. I would then plunge the film into the container with the fixer for a couple minutes.
We would open the trunk door and secretly examine the negatives to see if the effect we wanted was working.Luckily it was.
We did one Ad with the Beach horses, another out on the Ocean with two models in a Hobi-cat sailboat, all with the same technique but we did not have to do the trunk processing anymore after we proved the system was working.
We shot many hundreds of rolls of film for each scenario.

We used to do quite a few Cigarette ads back then. Cigarette company's had enormous amounts of money to spend for advertising back then. On the shoot I described in San Diego, there was very serious talk at the time that the Bel Air cigarette pack blue was NOT even close to the Ocean Blue in San Diego. Also the Art director was pissed that the beach was always under fog until after 10:30am everyday ( shooting in the middle of the day is a huge no go unless its cloudy). We also had to contend with the Navy Seals practicing in the Ocean down the beach from us.
The Ad Agency and the Client thought of canceling the shoot and relocating to Tahiti for the better colored water.
The same Ad Agency and Cigarette Company produced and advertised Merit Cigarettes. Merit chose a freighter Ship as there photo ID featuring a Merchant Marine enjoying his Merit aboard his Freighter and then the freighter off in a background.
The Cigarette Company bought the Freighter they used in the Ads just for that Ad campaign.

The Marlboro Man was done here in Chicago at the time, what they used to spend on that brand was unbelievable!

I'd be happy to help - I process my own B&W film.