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Showing posts with label Early Photography. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Early Photography. Show all posts

Handmade Antique Book in Cyanotype Prussian Blue ! Westinghouse Bowling League 1919 has the Blues

Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a si...

An Unfortunate Collage Death as a Way of Life Part Two Funeral Post-Mortem Photography

An unfortunate memorial photograph, a "constructed" post-mortem if you will, with a portrait of the deceased later collaged o...

Untitled (Longest Hair) Cabinet Card c. 1890 Collection Jim Linderman

Anonymous cabinet card photograph, circa 1890 collection Jim Linderman DULL TOOL DIM BULB BOOKS AND EBOOKS HERE Tweet

Missing Mother? CDV Photographs Tinted by Hand

CLICK TO ENLARGE Three original Cartes de Visite photographs from San Francisco around 1880, maybe a bit earlier, maybe a bit later. They w...

Death as a Way of Life Post-Mortem Tintype Photograph collection Jim Linderman

I know this hurts. A post-mortem tintype photograph circa 1870 depicts a mother holding her recently passed away child. Infant mortality ...

Spider Woman! Victorian Woman Caught in a Web (Bob Dylan Expecting Rain Basement Tapes Reid Miles)

I really do not know why early photographers thought it chic to use this web protective overlay, but several did. Short post today...I'...

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