Glass/Plate Collections

Vintage: Glass plate negative Family Portraits by Michael Miley Studio (early XX Century)

4 March 2019 0

Michael Miley (1841-1918) was a popular commercial photographer based in Lexington, Virginia. He is acclaimed for bringing artistry to the medium of photography and often sought to capture his subjects in more candid poses.

Vintage: Portraits of American Ladies by Mathew Brady (1863)

8 December 2018 0

During the Civil War, Mathew Brady and his associates traveled throughout the eastern part of the country, capturing the effects of the War through photographs of people, towns, and battlefields. Additionally, Brady kept studios in Washington, DC and New York…

Vintage: Glass negatives by Frederick Danvers Power (1898 – 1926)

17 July 2018 0

Frederick Danvers Power (1861-1955 ) was born in England and educated at Malvern College, the Royal School of Mines, London, and the Mining Academy, Clausthal in Germany. In 1884 he migrated to Australia where he settled, initially in Melbourne, pursuing…

Vintage: Portraits of American Ladies by Mathew Brady (1863)

1 July 2018 0

Vintage: Glass Plate Negatives of Carole Lombard (1930s)

4 April 2018 0

Carole Lombard (1908 – 1942) was born into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but was raised in Los Angeles by her single mother. At 12, she was recruited by the film director Allan Dwan and made her screen…

Vintage: Daguerreotype Portraits of People born in the late 18th Century (1700s)

14 January 2018 0

Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Daguerreotype Portraits of People born in the late 18th century (1700s). From the collection of Jesse Cress at flickr

Vintage Daguerreotype portraits from XIX Century (1844 – 1860)

24 November 2017 0

Mathew B. Brady (1822 – 1896) was one of the first American photographers, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, among other…

Daguerreotype Portraits of Ladies born in the late 18th century (1700s)

26 August 2017 0

Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Daguerreotype Portraits of Ladies born in the late 18th century (1700s). via jessecollectorfreak @ Flickr

Vintage: Glass Plate Collection from the Illinois State Journal (1929 – 1936)

19 July 2017 0

Raymond Hodde was the Illinois State Journal’s first staff photographer. He began taking pictures for the newspaper in 1929, just a year after Col. Ira Copley bought the Journal and put into place a plan to modernize it and update…

Vintage: Glass Plate Collection from the Illinois State Journal (1929 – 1936)

19 May 2017 0

Vintage Daguerreotype portraits from XIX Century (1844 – 1860)

29 April 2017 0

Vintage Glass Plate diptych portraits of Women & Girls (1904-1917)

17 April 2017 0

Collection of early 20th century Glass Plate negative diptych portraits of Women & Girls from David Knights-Whittome Photographic Archive 1904-1917.

Vintage Glass Plate images of Streets from Sydney City (1900s)

30 January 2017 0

The year 1840 was the final year of convict transportation to Sydney, which by this time had a population of 35,000. The municipal council of Sydney was incorporated in 1842 and became Australia’s first city.Gold was discovered in the colony…

Victorian Era Ambrotype Portraits of Children (1850s and 1860s)

7 January 2017 0

Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Ambrotype Portraits of Children (1850s and 1860s). From the collection of Lisby @ Flickr.

Vintage: Glass Plate negatives of Snow in Australia (1900s)

1 December 2016 0

The alpine region of Australia stretches through New South Wales and into Victoria. In NSW the Snowy Mountains region is home to good snowfalls from June through to September and to Australia’s highest mountain – Mount Kosciuszko – which at…

Vintage: Bedouins in Egypt, the Sinai, Palestine and Jerusalem from 1898

25 November 2016 0

Photo collection of black and white glass-plate photographs of Bedouins in Egypt, the Sinai, Palestine and Jerusalem from 1898 taken by American Colony Photo Department. The American Colony Photo Department began in 1898, under the eye of its founder Elijah…

Historic Mug Shot of criminals from North Shields (1902-1905)

9 November 2016 0

Collection of vintage photographs of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1905 in the collection of Tyne & Wear Archives.

Vintage Glass Plate diptych portraits of Women & Girls (1904-1917)

7 November 2016 0

Collection of early 20th century Glass Plate negative diptych portraits of Women & Girls from David Knights-Whittome Photographic Archive 1904-1917.

Vintage: Texan Portraits by Julius Born (Early 20th Century)

21 October 2016 0

Photographer Julius Born (1879-1962) took thousands of photographs of the people, land and community in Hemphill county located in the Texas panhandle. In thousands of portrait photographs taken during the first half of the twentieth century, Born forever documented Texas’…