A hundred year old glass plates...

[Dralowid]

One more from a 100 year old glass plate negative.

Jim B.

Sometimes, with pictures like this you can see the 'assistants' moving and shaking the background around so that it becomes indistinct and fuzzy. In later years, with a white background, this technique was used so that a 'cut out' image could be was made so much easier.

 

[sepiareverb]

I've got a big box of stereo plates shot by an unknown photographer. The western US, and South America from the looks of them in my memory. I've not had them out in years. Never thought to scan them.

 

[p.giannakis]

I've got a big box of stereo plates shot by an unknown photographer. The western US, and South America from the looks of them in my memory. I've not had them out in years. Never thought to scan them.

Let us know if you ever scan them - i would be interested in seeing them. You can post them here if you want too.

 

[sepiareverb]

I found more in the crate that held the box of stereo plates than I was expecting. Several other boxes of plates and some lantern slides.

And my favorite found negative ever was in there too!

4x5 glass plate


"Alamo Mine" written on the entrance. 2.7 x 5 inch glass lantern slide


2.7 x 5 inch glass negative


Buffaloes! 2.7 x 5 inch glass negative

There are several hundred of these here, mostly stereo plates as negatives. As I'm looking at these I have memories of one of an ostrich in the big box somewhere, didn't remember the buffaloes.

The stereo negatives and lantern slides came to me when I worked at Stevens Institute of Technology in the mid 80's. They'd been donated to the school and they were in need of making space and were going to throw them out. I asked someone in the library if I could take them home and they said sure. Totally unconserved, they are stacked in chipboard boxes, mostly labeled Ilford or Hammer Dry Plate.

 

[xayraa33]

I found more in the crate that held the box of stereo plates than I was expecting. Several other boxes of plates and some lantern slides.

And my favorite found negative ever was in there too!

4x5 glass plate


"Alamo Mine" written on the entrance. 2.7 x 5 inch glass lantern slide


2.7 x 5 inch glass negative


Buffaloes! 2.7 x 5 inch glass negative

There are several hundred of these here, mostly stereo plates as negatives. As I'm looking at these I have memories of one of an ostrich in the big box somewhere, didn't remember the buffaloes.

The stereo negatives and lantern slides came to me when I worked at Stevens Institute of Technology in the mid 80's. They'd been donated to the school and they were in need of making space and were going to throw them out. I asked someone in the library if I could take them home and they said sure. Totally unconserved, they are stacked in chipboard boxes, mostly labeled Ilford or Hammer Dry Plate.

Re : Top most photo:

I did not know that the children of the 1890s were fans of the Addams Family? 🙂

 

[sepiareverb]

Re : Top most photo:

I did not know that the children of the 1890s were fans of the Addams Family? 🙂

Right! Nor that they ate LSD. The things we can learn from antique glass plates!😀

 

[xayraa33]

Right! Nor that they ate LSD. The things we can learn from antique glass plates!😀

Charles Dodgson ( Lewis Carroll) must have breathed in too much collodion fumes in the 1850s, as that Alice in Wonderland story he wrote sure looks like he was under the influence of some mind altering substances.

 

[giganova]

Wow, what a find!! I have never seen fishermen with bowler hats! 😀

Two suggestions:

1) You should go on a quest, find the locations and take pictures of the exact same scene!
2) That picture of the glacier in the Alps might be very valuable to scientist studying climate change! You could contact university climatologist to see if they are interested.