Young Soldier in New York

 

Photographed in Elmira New York

A rare smile

Unlike the previous post we have here a very rare smile.I can not say that I have very many photographs in my collection where the subject has given the photographer much of a smile.Here we have a fantastic smile.It almost seems that the photographer made some kind of joke and the woman here seems ready to burst into laughter.Her husband seems like he may have caught the joke as well.

 

 

 

 

Happily married couple

Ok so I am trying to be funny with the title post here.This is the first of my Daguerreotypes that I will be posting.I just recently found a technique for photographing these.Since the reflective surface makes this hard I cut a hole in a piece of black card board and stuck my lens through.I had to back away a bit as to not get the reflection of the lens and used my zoom to capture this image.

There is dust on the inside of the glass

Beautiful woman with a feather in her hat

This photo is small like a CDV but much longer, maybe a type mini cabinet card?This was found with a number of tintypes at an estate sale last summer.Mutiple albums were removed of their contents and spread across a table for purchase I picked some tintypes (see the post “photographer in the family”and several posted after that. ) and this one CDV.I think it is a shame that those photos were sold the way they were I wanted so much to buy them all but at first day estate sale prices I picked a small amount.
There were a number of cabinete cards but this small CDV was the most interesting and beautiful of all and the only CDV for sale.

Woman holding a book.

This is a very small tintype maybe only an inch from side to side.The woman holds a book or photo album in her lap probably given to her by the photographer to prop her hands on.Her cheeks and scarf are lightly colored and her chain is touched up in gold leaf.Unfortunately some kind of adhesive attached to this long ago,still the overall detail in this photograph is wonderful.

Home in Pasadena

J.W.Wortman

Photographed in front of this house could be the very people that called it home. The shadows of the tress can be seen stretched across the front lawn of the house.

Two women with a parosol

 

Two women photographed  in front of a back drop that features sail boats.Both women look to be holding some kind of fan and the one standing holds a parasol.The women are dressed similarly probably sisters maybe even twins??

Young boy

Nice ambrotype of a young boy.He looks to be wearing a velvet shirt.

My reflection can be seen in this glass photo when time and conditions permut I will try for another shot.