Share Your Family History Photo Crafts
This week I'm looking for a little reader participation. It's time to show off! Have you created a family history project using your family photos? E-mail me a photo of it and I'll either feature it here, or if I receive enough submissions, I'll put together another slide show.I...
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Photo Favorites
This week I'm taking a break from a long column and featuring a few new online photo finds. I 've been in love with photography for as long as I can remember. Started studying pictures as a toddler and had my first camera in second grade. In high...
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Why the Long Face? Part Two
A few weeks ago I wrote about posing devices employed by photographers to guarantee their clients sat still for their pictures. At that time I also asked if anyone had photographs of the actual head rests and other equipment. Jeffrey W. Deitchler answered the call and sent me two pictures...
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Photographing Children in Our Ancestors’ Day
In honor of Mother's Day, I'm including a short piece on photographing of children from Rhode Island photographers William Coleman and Orville Remington. They were business partners in their studio from 1867 to 1883. During their first year, the men published a booklet advising potential customers how to...
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House History Help: My Favorite Books
My bookshelves are an eclectic mix of volumes on everything from forensic identification of facial features to button history. Any book I think might help analyze a picture ends up in my library. This diversity of titles includes several tomes on house history. If you find yourself with an architecture...
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Raising the Roof: Architectural Images
This week's blog column is actually the second part of a photo mystery. The first installment appears in my Photo Detective article in the July 2009 Family Tree Magazine. That issue should be in your mail boxes starting this week. Here's a synopsis of the problem: Bergetta Monroe...
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Why the Long Faces in Old Photos?
Every so often I bump into a 19th century photo in which the subjects are grinning. It's a rare event. Occasionally, you see a Mona Lisa smile, but it's difficult to locate an image from the 19th century where folks actually showed teeth the way we do today. So, you're...
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Picture Origins: Overseas or in America?
In response to last week's column on tinted pictures, Barbara Stone sent in this oversize hand colored photo of a young woman. It's on canvas and framed in a gorgeous gold setting. According to Stone is was found in a collection of pictures of her father's Irish relatives who lived...
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Picture Origins: Overseas or in America
In response to last week's column on tinted pictures, Barbara Stone sent in this oversize hand colored photo of a young woman. It's on canvas and framed in a gorgeous gold setting. According to Stone is was found in a collection of pictures of her father's...
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Hand-Colored Photographs
Do you own any photographs that are hand-colored? These tinted enhancements range from delicately shaded pink lips and gold jewelry to elaborate coloring that obscures the image and transforms a photograph into a painting. Powders, paints, crayons and pastels were all used to make photographs look more lifelike. Some photographers...
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