W/NW Vintage photographs

[charjohncarter]

Again one of my fathers photos, this one from 1938c on Mt Rainier (WA state):

Spring Skiing 1938c. by John Carter, on Flickr

 

[mconnealy]

Tintype of my grandfather in the year of his birth, 1884.

Creased across the middle as the result of being folded, possibly so that it could have been carried in his father's wallet.

 

[p.giannakis]

Got this box of glass plates a few years ago.

Here a few ones... late 1800's I would say..

 

[mconnealy]

My favourites are in the old Kodak "How to... " manuals and books.

And the colour pictures from the turn of the previous century when they were using the three filters system.


https://www.rothschildarchive.org/materials/the_colours_of_another_age_pdf_reduced.pdf


Hard to imagine the impact those Autochrome images must have had when they first appeared.

There is a great collection of early Kodak publications available at GenWeb of Monroe County, NY.

 

[David Hughes]

Thanks for the Kodak link.

Some good books, those old fashioned solid things, are:-

"Colour Photography the first hundred years 1840-1940" by Brian Coe,

"Photographs for the Tsar" edited by R H Allshouse and

"Victorian Candid Camera" by Bill Jay.

The last one is about the original street photographer Paul Martin, born 1864.

Regards, David

 

[mconnealy]

My grandmother in a canoe on a Wisconsin mill pond about 1917.

A bad print from a poor scan, but my all time favorite family photo.
It inspired me to pick up an Ansco Folding Buster Brown that made some nice images for me.

 

[filmtwit]

My grandmother and dad, c1930ish?