THE COOKIE TIN is about discoveries. How a photographic time capsule had been hidden in plain sight for forty years – with hundreds of untouched photo negatives that, when finally brought into the light, would reveal astonishingly vivid images from the 1920’s, never seen photographs of the 1939 World’s Fair, and mysterious pictures of a family member who inexplicitly disappears in the 1940’s. Robert J. Shattuck exposes the true story behind his grandmother’s lifelong obsession with amateur photography, her unexpected hidden talent and the reason she may have kept her best pictures secret from her own family.