Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children. Show all posts

Friday, March 7, 2025

Photo of a Group of Children Posing With Croquet Mallets, a Rope Swing and Dolls in Mazomanie, Wisconsin (1870s)

 

Portrait of  a group of children posing with croquet mallets, a rope swing and dolls probably in Mazomanie, Wisconsin, c. 1870s. A man, probably their father, is posing behind them. Originally published as a stereoview by the Superior Viewing Company.

Source: Library of Congress.

Monday, January 15, 2024

Animated Stereoscopic Time-Lapse Daguerreotype Photo Portrait of Swiss Photographer Jean-Gabriel Eynard With Friends And Family (1852)

 

Animated stereoscopic time-lapse daguerreotype portrait of Jean-Gabriel Eynard (elderly sitting man at center) posing with family and friends probably taken in Switzerland, c. 1852. Attributed to Jean-Gabriel Eynard.

Source: J. Paul Getty Museum.

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Photo of the County Jail in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Which Was Destroyed By a Fire in 1875 (1860s/1870s)

 

View of the Fitchburg County Jail in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, c. 1860s/1870s. It was destroyed by a fire during which no prisoners were injured or escaped in 1875. Attributed to J. C. Moulton. From the book Fitchburg Past and Present by William Andrew Emerson published in 1903.

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Thursday, December 29, 2016

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Friday, February 12, 2016

A Group of Women and Children Posing in Front of the Confederate Torpedo Boat CSS David in Charleston, South Carolina (1864)


A group of women and children posing in front of the Confederate torpedo boat CSS David in Charleston, South Carolina, 1864. By George S. Cook. From Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War.

Saturday, January 23, 2016