Old School Photography Help

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We found very old family photographs from around 1950s-1960's, along with those images were the negatives as well which I was pretty excited about.

I want to try and get prints made from those negatives, but I have no idea if thats even possible now. I haven't seen these type before. They are about 58mm wide by 55mm long, basically look like a square and there are 2 images per (slide?)(film?)(whatever?)

anyone have a clue what type of negatives these are called and if its possible to get prints from them?

thanks for your time

[TheHoff]

I would look into having them drum scanned rather than printed directly. There are bound to be fixes you can make to the file before printing and then you'll have a perfect DNG for all time rather than another print that will eventually go south.

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i've seen that drum scanning done before, any idea how much it is to get done?

[TheHoff]

This is the place I would use in Vancouver:

http://www.discimaging.ca/fine_art_printing/drum_scanning.htm

It is usually done with much bigger items but I think they can do a few of yours at once and then split them after scanning. Google drum scanning and your nearest city and I'm sure you'll find some pro houses with price lists.

edit: you're lucky to have the negs; I've done some retouching work for family photos where I had to recreate half of a face, missing hands, etc, because of poorly kept prints (albeit from the late 1800s, a bit older...)