Old Pictures

[Stormlight]

I don't know if this site has been linked too before but they have tons of great pictures from around the world from the 19th and early 20th century. There are even two from Luxembourg. :yup:

Old Pictures (http://www.old-picture.com/index.htm)

[livius drusus]

Amazingly extensive collection, Stormy. I started browsing the Civil War collections (http://www.old-picture.com/theme-index-002.htm), and I suspect it'll be a long while before I move on.

[livius drusus]

Oo! Michael Faraday (http://www.old-picture.com/daguerreotypes/Michael-Faraday.htm)! :hyper:

http://www.old-picture.com/daguerreotypes/pictures/Michael-Faraday.jpg

[Dingfod]

Actor Junius Booth (http://www.old-picture.com/daguerreotypes/Junius-Booth.htm), father of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin.

http://www.old-picture.com/daguerreotypes/pictures/Junius-Booth.jpg

[Dingfod]

Jenny Lind, "The Swedish Nightingale"

http://www.old-picture.com/daguerreotypes/pictures/Jenny-Lind.jpg

[Dingfod]

Aaarrrgghh! (http://www.old-picture.com/daguerreotypes/George-Bush.htm)

[livius drusus]

Whoa. It's gotta be an ancestor, no?

[Dingfod]

He's probably a great-uncle somewhere back up the line.

[livius drusus]

Actor Junius Booth (http://www.old-picture.com/daguerreotypes/Junius-Booth.htm), father of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin.

And his brother, Edwin (http://www.old-picture.com/mathew-brady-studio/Edwin-Booth.htm). The good actor in the family.

http://www.old-picture.com/mathew-brady-studio/pictures/Edwin-Booth.jpg

[livius drusus]

I've come across some serious inaccuracies in the descriptions. This picture (http://www.old-picture.com/mathew-brady-studio/Confederate-Spy.htm) of Rose Greenhow, for example, taken while she was imprisoned for spying, is dated 1865, a year after she died and 3 years after her stint in jail.

They're also written in a really weird way. If it weren't for the use of certain terms ("Rebels", "unpleasantness"), I'd say the authors are not American.

[spamandham]

I've come across some serious inaccuracies in the descriptions. This picture (http://www.old-picture.com/mathew-brady-studio/Confederate-Spy.htm) of Rose Greenhow, for example, taken while she was imprisoned for spying, is dated 1865, a year after she died and 3 years after her stint in jail.

If basic facts are screwed up, you have to wonder whether the pictures are even of the people they are claimed to be.

[Dingfod]

I had the impression the captions only reported what was written on the back of the photos themselves, which could quite often be nearly illegible. If I am mistaken, I may have gotten that impression from a found photo site.

[livius drusus]

That seems unlikely given the repetitiveness of the descriptions. They're done in a very specific syntax and style. Some are more detailed than others, but they're all definitely written by the same hand.

The dates might be copied from scrawls on the back of the photos, though.

[Shake]

Whoa. It's gotta be an ancestor, no?
Not necessarily. Pretty common last name, you know.

[Doctor X]

http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/campbell_beatrice_stella.jpg

Remarked that she did, ". . . not care what these affectionate people do provided they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

--J.D.

[Doctor X]

http://img.nytstore.com/IMAGES/NSAP719_LARGE.JPG

"A Wind Swept Through Georgia. . . ."

--J.D.

[Watser?]

http://www.old-picture.com/europe/pictures/Kronenbourg-Nymegen.jpg

This is the park close to where I live (500 meters away or something). It says the pic was taken between 1890 and 1900. They had just tore down the old city walls (but left some parts, like the tower) and built the park then. It was on the outskirts of town then, now it is in the center.

[curses]

http://www.old-picture.com/civil-war/pictures/General-Hood.jpg


My great-great grandfather, General John Bell Hood! :excited:

[Stormlight]

Wow, that's so cool, curses!

[curses]

Thanks! It's never dawned on me to find a picture of him. I've seen pictures of this age from my mom's side of the family, but not dad's.

What's even more frightening is that I'm related to Strom Thurmond, too (although not directly, more of a second cousin kind of way. My father is named after him, I believe.)

Somebody get me outta the South!*



*I keed, I keed.

[livius drusus]

What's even more frightening is that I'm related to Strom Thurmond, too
So you're part owner of Al Sharpton then. :tiptoe:

[curses]

What's even more frightening is that I'm related to Strom Thurmond, too
So you're part owner of Al Sharpton then. :tiptoe:LOL. Which part?

[livius drusus]

You tell me. Or on second thought, don't. :giggle:

[curses]

What's the old Perdue chicken ad? Parts is parts.

Personally, I'd take the part that was the least likely to nag me.

[Doctor X]

Well . . . Ol' Hood did shout "stop!" loudly at Sherman a few times. . . .

--J.D.

[ed]

I've come across some serious inaccuracies in the descriptions. This picture (http://www.old-picture.com/mathew-brady-studio/Confederate-Spy.htm) of Rose Greenhow, for example, taken while she was imprisoned for spying, is dated 1865, a year after she died and 3 years after her stint in jail.

If basic facts are screwed up, you have to wonder whether the pictures are even of the people they are claimed to be.

Well this one clearly screws the pooch


http://www.old-picture.com/mathew-brady-studio/Honorable-Cassius-Clay.htm

[curses]

I've come across some serious inaccuracies in the descriptions. This picture (http://www.old-picture.com/mathew-brady-studio/Confederate-Spy.htm) of Rose Greenhow, for example, taken while she was imprisoned for spying, is dated 1865, a year after she died and 3 years after her stint in jail.

If basic facts are screwed up, you have to wonder whether the pictures are even of the people they are claimed to be.

Well this one clearly screws the pooch


http://www.old-picture.com/mathew-brady-studio/Honorable-Cassius-Clay.htm

:giggle: How could they be so wrong!!!1! ;)

[roastelk]

I think I just figured out where George lucas may have got the idea for for Princess Leia's hairstyle from


http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2459&stc=1&d=1173405463

[Stormlight]

:chuckle:

[Doctor X]

I think I just figured out where George lucas may have got the idea for for Princess Leia's hairstyle from. . . .

http://skepticalcommunity.com/phpbb2/download.php?id=2243

--J.D.

[Stormlight]

Colour photography from Russia in the early 1900s (http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russian-in-the-early-1900s/comment-page-4/)

[ceptimus]

Interesting photos! :thumbup:

The colours are a little out of register in some of the photos - for example in the first one the red/green register is way out over towards the right of the picture - particularly noticeable on the spires and the bridge railings. It almost looks like one of those stereo 3D photos that you have to look at through the red/green glasses.

Looks like they may have only used two colours (filters) to generate the colour - unlike the three colours used in more modern colour photography.

[Ymir's blood]

#2 unfortunately does not show the peasant women being stacked one inside the other and put away on a shelf.

:undolls:

[fragment]

Nice pics.

The colours are out of alignment in a number of shots, but it looks like a standard 3-colour subraction set of cyan, magenta, yellow in most of them. Modern printing usually prints black in addition to those.

I think the process may have involved taking three shots sequentially with different filters. If you look at #21, for example, you can see different coloured ghosts where some of the people have moved. Where the colours match up properly, they are gorgeous.