Antique Photographs

New group for all old photo mavens and historians

nobody@flickr.com (snap-happy1) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:28:49 -0700

snap-happy1 posted a new topic:

The Flip Side www.flickr.com/groups/theflipside/ is a place to display the graphic information on the reverse side of your old photos - information regarding the photographer/gallery/studio, etc. We're hoping to build a repository of information that can assist all in obtaining information about their old photos.

Come check us out.

The other side of Antique Photographs

nobody@flickr.com (jdrose.com) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:51:15 -0700

jdrose.com posted a new topic:

This is fairly interesting.

www.sheaff-ephemera.com/list/backmarks_album/

global working in progress project

nobody@flickr.com (Polly Bird Balitro) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:24:46 -0700

Polly Bird Balitro posted a new topic:

hi everyone!

first of all I would like to say how much I love this group pool. antique photographs are indeed extremely inspiring!

I thought you may be interesting in a global project I am working on. the project has just started and I need more and more people to get involved so that it could get serious.

I thought this was the perfect group to introduce my project to.

the project doesn't have a real name yet that's why I call it just "global *working in progress* project" for now, and you can read all about it here:

there's also a flickr group, where you can see some of the works:

www.flickr.com/groups/polly_bird_global_project/

I would be very glad if some of you would read this and give it a try.
thanks so much fro spreading the voice around.

/Polly.Bird

Reply to patination

nobody@flickr.com (prairiemomof2) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:02:06 -0700

prairiemomof2 posted a reply:

Yes. I love to research my old CDV's and antique photos. I enjoy doing the research online and I also enjoy connecting families with antique photos of their great, great grandparents, etc!

new group called ~THE 20th CENTURY~

nobody@flickr.com (G&M&T) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:31:20 -0800

G&M&T posted a new topic:

Hi everybody,

My name is Marian and I have started a new group called

THE 20th CENTURY

and you are invited to take a look and JOIN !!

This is a group to "paint " a picture of the 20th century.
There must be lots of photo's and colour slides taken in that century out there.
Even your digitalized old 8mm film or video can be placed in this group.
Help us give new life to pre-digital photo's, films and colour slides!

Here are some of our most interesting photo's

New antique photo group -civil war interest

nobody@flickr.com (Lauren Peppiatt) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:41:36 -0800

Lauren Peppiatt posted a new topic:

www.flickr.com/groups/cwep/

Is a new group specifically for american civil war era portrait photographs

Images from the American Civil War are fascinating and evocative of the time in which they were taken.

Use this group to share antique Civil War Era portrait photographs, though this we can remember and discover the faces of the past - from the soldiers themselves to the ordinary civilian.

all welcome! I look forward to new contributions to the group!

new group: Flickr Commons

nobody@flickr.com (Lú_) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:40:12 -0800

Lú_ posted a new topic:

Fans of The Commons, Flickr's treasure house of public-domain (mostly pre-1950) photographs from the collections of member institutions — museums, libraries, and archives from all over the world -- have begun a new group dedicated to celebrating, exploring, promoting, and carrying forward The Commons project.

The over 350 members who have already joined and are actively engaged in the group -- Flickr Commons -- are staff of member institutions, regular Flickr members like you and me, and Flickr staff too. Please join us!

~ Lú
www.flickr.com/flickrcommons/

Reply to Modern Scanners vs. Antique Photos

nobody@flickr.com (geneologyeng) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:50:29 -0800

geneologyeng posted a reply:

Only sunlight can fade anything. or a UV light left on aiming at them. fear not.

Reply to Modern Scanners vs. Antique Photos

nobody@flickr.com (geneologyeng) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:49:10 -0800

geneologyeng posted a reply:

Scanner light cannot possibly harm a photo when that scanner is a small home bought one. I am sure that those are not capable of such. So don't even need to worry about that as a potential. If your photo does crumble thats from handling or not having scanned before materials used to produce image "expired". Theres no need fearing any type pf scanner that's available for purchase thats under six hundred dollars. Granted bigger ones might be brighter but eyes are one thing and a temporary photo light beam passage over is another.
None of those scanners have the nuclear strength needed to damage. Not after one or two scans I am quite sure.

A touter at the door was crying out “Hi! hi!--walk inside! walk inside! and have your c‘rect likeness took, frame and glass complete, and only 6d.!-- time of sitting only four seconds!”

nobody@flickr.com (seriykotik1970) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:58:09 -0800

seriykotik1970 posted a new topic:

A nice description of Victorian street photographers- this'd be the collodion plate process- in the 1850s from Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor.

www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:2000...

After a time I left Mr. F----I‘s, and went to another establishment close by, which had originally formed part of a shop in the pennyice-and-bull‘s-eye line--for the name-board over “Photographic Depôt” was still the property of the confectioner--so that the portraits displayed in the window were surmounted by an announcement of “Ginger beer 1d. and 2d.”

A touter at the door was crying out “Hi! hi!--walk inside! walk inside! and have your c‘rect likeness took, frame and glass complete, and only 6d.!-- time of sitting only four seconds!”

A rough-looking, red-faced tanner, who had been staring at some coloured French lithographs which decorated the upper panes, and who, no doubt, imagined that they had been taken by the photographic process, entered, saying, “Let me have my likeness took.”

The touter instantly called out, “Here, a shilling likeness for this here gent.”

The tanner observed that he wanted only a sixpenny.

Ah, very good, sir!” and raising his voice, the touter shouted louder than before--“A sixpenny one first, and a shilling one afterwards.

“I tell yer I don‘t want only sixpennorth,” angrily returned the customer, as he entered.

At this establishment the portraits were taken in a little alley adjoining the premises, where the light was so insufficient, that even the blanket hung up at the end of it looked black from the deep shadows cast by the walls.

When the tanner‘s portrait was completed it was nearly black; and, indeed, the only thing visible was a slight light on one side of the face, and which, doubtlessly, accounted for the short speech which the operator thought fit to make as he presented the likeness to his customer.

There,” he said, “there is your likeness, if you like! look at it yourself; and only eightpence”--“Only sixpence,” observed the man.--“Ah! continued the proprietor, “but you‘ve got a patent American preserver, and that‘s twopence more.

Then followed a discussion, in which the artist insisted that he lost by every sixpenny portrait he took, and the tanner as strongly protesting that he couldn‘t believe that, for they must get some profit any how. “You don‘t tumble to the rig,” said the artist; “it‘s the half-guinea ones, you see, that pays us.”

The touter, finding that this discussion was likely to continue, entered and joined the argument. “Why, it‘s cheap as dirt,” he exclaimed indignantly; “the fact is, our governor‘s a friend of the people, and don‘t mind losing a little money. He‘s determined that everybody shall have a portrait, from the highest to the lowest. Indeed, next Sunday, he do talk of taking them for threepenceha‘penny, and if that ain‘t philandery, what is?”

After the touter‘s oration the tanner seemed somewhat contented, and paying his eightpence left the shop, looking at his picture in all lights, and repeatedly polishing it up with the cuff of his coat-sleeve, as if he were trying to brighten it into something like distinctness.

Whilst I was in this establishment a customer was induced to pay twopence for having the theory of photography explained to him. The lecture was to the effect, that the brass tube of the “camerer” was filled with clockwork, which carried the image from the lens to the ground glass at the back. To give what the lecturer called “hockeylar proof” of this, the camera was carried to the shopdoor, and a boy who was passing by ordered to stand still for a minute.

Now, then,” continued the lecturer to the knowledge-seeker, “look behind here; there‘s the himage, you see;” and then addressing the boy, he added, “Just open your mouth, youngster;” and when the lad did so, the student was asked, “Are you looking down the young un‘s throat?” and on his nodding assent, he was informed, “Well, that‘s the way portraits is took.