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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Occupational Portrait of Three Grave Diggers Posing With a Recently Dug Grave in a Cemetery (1860s)

Portrait of three grave diggers posing with a recently dug grave in a cemetery, location unknown, c. 1860s. Attributed to Mathew Brady. Note the blanket in the foreground used for collecting dirt from the grave as it is being dug. Also, a possible hearse is seen in the background at the top of the hill at left.


Thursday, April 20, 2023

Daguerreotype Portrait of a Group Posing in Front of Niagara Falls Attributed to Photographer Thomas Easterly (1840s/1850s)

 

Daguerreotype portrait of a group posing in front of Niagara Falls attributed to Thomas Easterly, c. 1850. A section from an 1838 poem about Niagara Falls by J. S. Buckingham is inscribed on the bottom of the plate and is signed in part "Easterly Daguerrean" at the end. The photo was possibly actually taken by photographer Platt D. Babbit, as he was known to take many photographs from this position during the 1850s.

Source: Missouri Historical Society.

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Photograph Said to Be Taken During a Slave Auction in the Cheapside Area of Lexington, Kentucky (1862)


Photograph said to be taken during a slave auction in the Cheapside area of Lexington, Kentucky, c. 1861-1862. The man standing on a platform in the center waving his arms looks as though he is an auctioneer. The bovine in the left background might suggest that the photo actually depicts a livestock auction, although Cheapside was the location of a slave market in the period. Originally published in the book Slavery Times in Kentucky by John Winston Coleman.

Source: New York Public Library.
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Thursday, March 22, 2018

View Taken During the Laying of the Cornerstone Ceremony of Rollstone Church in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (1868)


View taken during the laying of the cornerstone ceremony of Rollstone Church in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, October 5, 1868. From the book Fitchburg Past and Present by William Andrew Emerson published in 1903.

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