Here is another very early 1890's family portrait.I thought
it was well worth putting afew of these on considering the age of them.Unfortunately
with this photograph and the others I don't know I thing about the history
of the photograph.There is no information with the 10"x8" glass
plate.The only one that I could put a date on was the Waddington Post Office
photograph which even amazed me to be from 1893.What I love about these photographs
is that they are really so old.These were taken when photography was still
a very new modern medium.Looking at the contorted faces on this photograph,it
was obviously taken when the shutter of the camera would be open for a few
seconds as oppose to now where 60th of a second is considered slow.In this
age of photography,nobody thought to smile.Hence all most if not all the portraits
from this era have a very stern victorian look.If anyone could let me know
about the history of this or the other old portaits I would love to hear from
you.
