Vintage Glass Plate Negatives

[Cameron Cornell]

April 11, 2018

What follows are images from a haul of 4x5 and 5x7 glass plate negatives made in Maine in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. A colleague of mine gave them to me. They were made by her great grandfather.

I don't know if our forum has a thread where people are sharing images made from old glass plate negatives. If not, I'd love to see other people contribute images here. I once was the printer for the photo archive of the Western History Collection at the University of Oklahoma. For $4 an hour, I made prints from 19th and early 20th Century glass plates made in the "Old West." We had a few plates as large as 20x24". I love this stuff, and I'd love to see what you folks might have sitting around your own little home archives.









Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

[Cameron Cornell]

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

[Cameron Cornell]

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

[Cameron Cornell]

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

[Cameron Cornell]

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

[Jac@stafford.net]

One from my box of odds.

[Old_Dick]

Cameron,

I've been to some of those places.

[Cameron Cornell]

Cameron,

I've been to some of those places.

Dick,

My colleague said that the boardwalk was at Orchard Beach, and that one lighthouse was Portland head light and the other was Twin Lights under construction. She also gave me a three inch stack of stereo cards from Maine, several of which have dates written or printed on them from the 1860's through the 1880's. I texted images of some of these cards that were taken on Peak's Island to my cousin who'd lived there for several years and her response was that it really looks pretty much the same today. Maine is a beautiful state.

Best,

Cameron

PS: Here are a few of the stereo cards from Peak's Island. I'll post them here in spite of the fact that they aren't glass plates!

[Old_Dick]

Cameron, one is Nubble Light, another looks like Marshall Point. I bet J.P. would know a few more.

[RedGreenBlue]

This posting could be slightly off topic. Not sure. Here are 3 quarter-plate negatives of Times Square taken at night on January 16, 1947. The negative envelope says exposure was 14 seconds at f/6.3. The three plates are color separation negatives. The color assembly was done in Photoshop.









Scott