WayneS
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Post by WayneS on Mar 31, 2020 18:41:38 GMT
As boredom increases by the day, I was looking through the Family Album, and one of the earliest pictures in our album was this one, from 1885 in Denmark, of my maternal grandmother and her older sister! For something that might be fun to do, submit a picture, the date, where taken, and if you wish, the relationship of the individuals! i.ibb.co/4PqKrnN/1885-Julie-and-Laura-Lauritsen.jpg |
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Post by michelb on Mar 31, 2020 19:29:38 GMT
The oldest family photograph is from an aunt of my wife's grandfather. There is a date 1876 which seems right since she was born around 1852. The family lived in the neighborhood of Bordeaux.  |
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Post by jackscrap on Mar 31, 2020 22:11:10 GMT
This is my Great Great Grandmother Maria Buchanan, born 1847 and died 1918, aged 71. I don't know her age in this photo or where it was taken, could she be in her late 20's, early 30's, which would make the photo around 1865-77 i.ibb.co/fkzhsMW/Marie-Buchanan.jpg |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 1, 2020 3:56:50 GMT
Excellent post Wayne and cool photos.
Neat idea. Will look.
Thanks
Clive
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Post by cats4jan on Apr 1, 2020 6:18:39 GMT
What treasures. Looking forward to seeing more. Great idea.
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Post by michelb on Apr 1, 2020 8:18:58 GMT
I am wondering what was the exposure time of the oldest photos. The subjects had to stay for several seconds without moving. The lens cap was used as a shutter. That explains the necessity of something to lean upon not to move.
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Post by tonyw on Apr 1, 2020 17:57:34 GMT
Not the oldest in my collection but one of the better preserved - my great great grandparents. Guessing the date would have been around 1890 which is supported by the style of the cabinet card the photo is mounted on - more on cabinet cards at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_card Tony |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 1, 2020 18:22:25 GMT
Neat photos folks. My dad's uncle and aunt in ca 1887 in Germany. Dad gave me the original print many years ago...as you can see it was in bad shape. Looking for another photo of my gran in England ca 1903 or so.  |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 1, 2020 18:39:56 GMT
Couple more...not quite so old. My grandmother, lower right, was born in 1900, so this photo is from about 1905 to 1908. I don't know the details too well. Her mother (seated) married for the second time and this apparently was taken at the wedding. Her sister (standing) lived in Lymington in Hampshire, England. Last year, I corresponded with my second (or third) cousin (her grandson) who still lives in Lymington. The first photo I posted was from Germany and these from England. They explain my unique name: a very English first name and German last name. My dad (who passed last July at age 96) was born in Canada (his parents came here in 1913) and served in the Canadian Army in WWII in England and Europe. He married my mother (a Brit) in England so my brother and I are products of the war.  
This is my grandfather, Percy, during WWI, so around 1917 or so....somewhere in England.  |
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Post by whippet on Apr 1, 2020 20:03:34 GMT
This was taken around 1900. My maternal great grandfather was a market gardener. The photo is of a family wedding. It was taken outside of their house on their nurseries. They are seated, and dressed in black. My grandfather and grandmother are marked by arrows.  |
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Post by ritage on Apr 1, 2020 21:26:15 GMT
This is my great-grandmother and my grandfather. He was born in October 1869, so this must have been taken in early 1870. I once offered it for a Colorization Challenge on a forum and below is my favorite version of that challenge.
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Post by hmca on Apr 1, 2020 21:39:10 GMT
The boy on the left was my grandfather. He went to a military academy and looking at the picture I think he was about 12. Sooo think the picture was taken (and colorized) around 1881.  The older woman in the bottom picture is my great-grandmother. Maybe 1915?  |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Apr 1, 2020 23:24:10 GMT
michelb Good question. time.com/4568032/smile-serious-old-photos/Another common explanation for the lack of smiles in 19th century photographs is that, because it took so long to capture a photograph back then, people in pictures couldn’t hold a smile for long enough. “Some of that is true,” says Todd Gustavson, technology curator at the George Eastman Museum. “If you look at the early processes where you did have a long exposure time, you’re going to pick a pose that’s comfortable.” But he says that technology has been overplayed as the limiting factor. By the 1850s and ’60s it was possible in the right conditions to take photographs with only a few seconds of exposure time,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype... expose it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary, which could be as little as a few seconds for brightly sunlit subjects or much longer with less intense lighting;
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rapata
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Post by rapata on Apr 1, 2020 23:51:21 GMT
I have lots of older family photos, but they are still in a box waiting to be scanned, a project I have been putting off for years. This is the oldest on my computer, my parents John Martin Thackray and Clara Haigh, on their wedding day November 8, 1945. (I spent hours restoring and retouching this photo a few years back)  |
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Post by hmca on Apr 2, 2020 1:45:54 GMT
You did a beautiful job on that picture, Pauline.
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