Category: Photography
Discover the art of photography through the lenses of the past. Explore iconic historical photos that document real people, emotions, and events.
This collection honors photographers whose work captured truth, beauty, and the soul of their era.
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#9 This is a collodion negative that has been mounted as a lantern slide. It has been labeled by the photographer “Wet col neg Wet col positive”. The paper mat tells us it was made in 1873 in Belvidere, New Jersey. It names the young men (it appears that the young women did not rate naming) are H. W. Hazard and John C. Browne. The camera peeks out of the mat on the left side but the dark tent, buckets, and other supplies give us a delightful window on what was involved in an afternoon of photographing in 1873.
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