The following panels are collages of historical materials of the Blaska family compiled by Burdette Blaska.  These panels include vintage photographs, newspaper clippings, legal records, land deeds, genealogical records, maps and much more. 

•   Open Individual Pictures:  You may open individual pictures or items from within the panels below by left clicking the item.  That item will open as a JPG file in a new web page.  Once the picture is open, you may save it to your computer by right clicking on the picture and selecting, "Save Picture As..."
•   Open Entire Panel:  For each panel below, you may open in a new page the entire panel by clicking on the title at the top of the panel.  Once the picture is open, you may save it to your computer by right clicking on the picture and selecting, "Save Picture As..."
•   View Slideshow:  At the below each panel is a slideshow.  You can click on the image to progress to the next picture or you can use the buttons at the bottom: 
  • 1st button causes the slideshow to scroll through the images automatically. 
  • 2nd button reverts to the previous picture.
  • 3rd button moves to the next picture
  • 4th button doesn't seem to do anything at all???
  • Enjoy!

TIFF Format

To view or download the panels in their original, raw TIFF format, follow the instructions below.  Please note that each panel is an approximate 25 megabyte TIFF file, which is very, very large.  To view them actually requires they be downloaded to your computer, which will take about 10 minutes for each panel with a typical high-speed broadband Internet connection.  Don't try it with a dial-up connection...

• To view or obtain the full sized panel, click on the thumbnail version below and a File Download menu will appear. 
• You can click 'Open' and the file will be downloaded to your temp folder and will automatically open when the download is complete.
• Or, you can click 'Save' and save the file to a destination on your hard drive.  Once it has finished downloading, you can click 'Open' to see the file.
• Note, you will need a program on your computer that can open a 'tif' or 'tiff' file, such as:
  • AlternaTIFF
  • Microsoft Office Document Imaging (part of Office)
  • Microsoft Office Picture Manager (part of Office)

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This site was last updated 03/10/13