A Second Look

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Photo Caption: Social media helped Horsted identify two girls photographed on Belvidere’s Main Street in 1946 as cousins Emily (Rauch) Sammons and JoAnn (Cacek) Scherer.
Photo Caption: Social media helped Horsted identify two girls photographed on Belvidere’s Main Street in 1946 as cousins Emily (Rauch) Sammons and JoAnn (Cacek) Scherer.

If you were eating breakfast at The Bank in Milbank one morning in May 2025, you may have seen a man with several cameras and a laptop hanging from his neck, dodging cars on Main Street and Third Avenue. That was Paul Horsted, and he wasn’t lost. He was looking for the exact spot where a photographer stood about 90 years earlier.

Horsted calls it rephotography. You find an old picture, stand where …

 

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