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

16 December 2015 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 Glass Plate negatives of workers and the machinery they manufactured (1900s)

2 November 2015 0

Almost all of the glass plate negatives in the Clyde photograph collection were taken at the Clyde works in Granville, and depict both the workers and the machinery they manufactured. Subjects covered include: railway locomotives and rolling stock; agricultural equipment;…

Vintage Daguerreotypes of widows in mourning (Victorian era, 1800s)

2 October 2015 0

Amazing collection of Victorian Era Daguerreotype portraits of women in mourning and widows. Lisby @ Flickr.

Glass-Plate Family Portraits from Romania (1940s)

30 September 2015 0

Amazing collection of family portraits by Romanian photographer Costică Acsinte. Costică Acsinte was born 4th of July, 1897 in a small village called Perieți, Ialomița County, Costică Acsinte fought in WWI. Despite his formation as a pilot, he was a…

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

25 September 2015 0

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

40 Glass Plate Mugshots from the 1920s

7 September 2015 0

These are wife killers, petty thieves, dealers of fake opium, hustlers – plucked from the street by the police of 1920s Sydney, Australia and photographed, fresh from the scene of the crime. These photographs reveal a lot more than the usual…

Vintage Daguerreotype portraits from XIX Century (1844 – 1860)

28 August 2015 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…

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

2 August 2015 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 portraits of Animals and Birds from Australia

2 July 2015 0

Amazing collection of early 20th century Glass Plate negative portraits of Animals and Birds from Sydney Zoo in Australia.

Vintage Mug Shot of Women criminals from North Shields (1903-1905)

27 June 2015 0

Collection of vintage photographs of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1903 and 1905 in the collection of Tyne & Wear Archives.

Fairy Tale Glass-Plate Portraits from Norway (1909)

6 June 2015 0

Amazing collection of early 20th century Fairy Tale Glass-Plate portraits by Norwegian photographer Eivind Enger.

Broken Glass-Plate Portraits from Romania (1940s)

22 April 2015 0

Amazing collection of broken glass-plate portraits by Romanian photographer Costică Acsinte. Costică Acsinte was born 4th of July, 1897 in a small village called Perieți, Ialomița County, Costică Acsinte fought in WWI. Despite his formation as a pilot, he was…

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