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.

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Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

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Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

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Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

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Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

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Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

[Jac@stafford.net]

One from my box of odds.

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[Steven Ruttenberg]

These are all quite cool.

[RedGreenBlue]

I love this stuff, and I'd love to see what you folks might have sitting around your own little home archives.



Me too. You found some super negatives. Here's a scan from a 5x7 glass plate negative. I think it was probably made with a Simon Wing Ajax or New Gem multiplying camera.

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Scott

[Tin Can]

You guys have a gold mine.

Some of us have been posting old glass negs willy-nilly. Maybe we have a dedicated thread and we need to merge.

I shot a couple 100-year-old NOS 5X7 plates a few months ago and posted somewhere.

Here's my hat on a stick, barely visible. Took a lot of light Shot on https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4600/24596704207_dbf746bfb3_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Dtwxe2)5 (https://flic.kr/p/Dtwxe2) by moe.randy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr

We also have Nodda Duma manufacturing and selling quality NEW GLASS PLATES.



We welcome your additions.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4641/38777380274_aef8f15305_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/225CdaY)websize #1 5X7 plate invert PS BW (https://flic.kr/p/225CdaY) by moe.randy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr

[RedGreenBlue]

Two more glass plate scans.

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[Randy]

5X7 plate

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d5id80lces73xnh/img629a.jpg?dl=1

[Randy]

another 5X7
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v12am88hoprlo9n/img628a.jpg?dl=1

[Cameron Cornell]

another 5X7
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v12am88hoprlo9n/img628a.jpg?dl=1

Randy, I don’t think your attachments uploaded, unless it’s just me who can’t see them.

[Cameron Cornell]

I’m a little embarrassed having titled this thread 19th Century Glass Plate Negatives when in the set of plates I posted there are two plates of cars that clearly were made in the early 20th Century. I had simply repeated what my colleague had said about the vintage of the plates without reflecting on it!

Is there a way to change the thread title to Vintage Glass Plate Negatives? There’s no reason to limit it to the 19th Century in any case. Early 20th Century plates would be of just as much interest.

[Tin Can]

I’m a little embarrassed having titled this thread 19th Century Glass Plate Negatives when in the set of plates I posted there are two plates of cars that clearly were made in the early 20th Century. I had simply repeated what my colleague had said about the vintage of the plates without reflecting on it!

Is there a way to change the thread title to Vintage Glass Plate Negatives? There’s no reason to limit it to the 19th Century in any case. Early 20th Century plates would be of just as much interest.

A Mod will help you.

[koraks]

Randy, I don’t think your attachments uploaded, unless it’s just me who can’t see them.
They show just fine here. It's probably to do with the link in the post which sometimes doesn't work on apple devices.

Both very nice plates BTW, Randy, I like them a lot! Particularly the first one.

[bob carnie]

You guys have a gold mine.

Some of us have been posting old glass negs willy-nilly. Maybe we have a dedicated thread and we need to merge.

I shot a couple 100-year-old NOS 5X7 plates a few months ago and posted somewhere.

Here's my hat on a stick, barely visible. Took a lot of light Shot on https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4600/24596704207_dbf746bfb3_z.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Dtwxe2)5 (https://flic.kr/p/Dtwxe2) by moe.randy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr

We also have Nodda Duma manufacturing and selling quality NEW GLASS PLATES.



We welcome your additions.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4641/38777380274_aef8f15305_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/225CdaY)websize #1 5X7 plate invert PS BW (https://flic.kr/p/225CdaY) by moe.randy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr

Randy that hat image is wicked, are there more in this series... I love it

[Tin Can]

Thanks Bob!

I am working on many things.

Now I jump in the truck and drive 500 miles.

See you all on the flip-flop.

[Nodda Duma]

Awesome pics!

I’ve recently finished up a project of contact printing whole plates taken around the turn of the century by a local amateur photographer. The plates belong to the local historical society. I scanned the prints and if ever get to it will post some examples here.

[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!

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[Randy]

I had posted some 3.5"X3.5" plates on the forum about 7 years ago, in the "Found Photographs" thread in the Lounge" but I am pretty sure they are gone due to the file service disappearing. Anyway, I'll post them here.

A friend gave me a couple plate boxes containing the plates. I scanned them all and within a couple days after posting them, had some feed back from forum member Raymond Bleesz letting us know he knew the locations of some of the images. Over the next year or so he spent some time out in Colorado researching my plates (I sent him a CD with high res scans), even wrote several articles for his local publications, discussing these plates.

The Georgetown Loop - from glass plate
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0big9frv2wqy8a/st001.jpg?dl=1

Another period image
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wa91oc2cidy0ekf/st001a.jpg?dl=1

Bridge in 2006
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ecuz4i3928fh7q/st001b.jpg?dl=1

Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_Loop_Railroad)

[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.

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[Nodda Duma]

That’s pretty cool Scott

[MrB01]

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.

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Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

It’s hard to imagine anything photographed as a wet plate collodion not looking great, if not gorgeous. Thanks for sharing!


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[Robert Brazile]

I've got a few picked up at photo shows and off eBay in the last few years. Here is a sample, mostly 5x7:

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8811/16492386844_b399d0f72b_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/r8nN2j)
FF-008, At the beach, early 20th century (https://flic.kr/p/r8nN2j) by Robert Brazile (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrazile/), on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1493/26212542306_382b9f9518_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/FWj8AA)
FF-033, Boston City Hall crowd (https://flic.kr/p/FWj8AA) by Robert Brazile (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrazile/), on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1691/25965576570_cc0b73d7d6_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/FyunhE)
FF-030, Traffic cop, Quincy First Parish church (https://flic.kr/p/FyunhE) by Robert Brazile (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrazile/), on Flickr

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4646/24471660417_a67be60f18_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/DhtE4B)
FF-055, Family portrait (https://flic.kr/p/DhtE4B) by Robert Brazile (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrazile/), on Flickr

Robert

[koraks]

It’s hard to imagine anything photographed as a wet plate collodion not looking great, if not gorgeous. Thanks for sharing!


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Given the timeframe they can be put in, they are extremely unlikely to be collodion plates. They don't look much like it either.

[Cameron Cornell]

I've got a few picked up at photo shows and off eBay in the last few years. Here is a sample, mostly 5x7:

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8811/16492386844_b399d0f72b_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/r8nN2j)
FF-008, At the beach, early 20th century (https://flic.kr/p/r8nN2j) by Robert Brazile (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrazile/), on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1493/26212542306_382b9f9518_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/FWj8AA)
FF-033, Boston City Hall crowd (https://flic.kr/p/FWj8AA) by Robert Brazile (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrazile/), on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1691/25965576570_cc0b73d7d6_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/FyunhE)
FF-030, Traffic cop, Quincy First Parish church (https://flic.kr/p/FyunhE) by Robert Brazile (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrazile/), on Flickr

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4646/24471660417_a67be60f18_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/DhtE4B)
FF-055, Family portrait (https://flic.kr/p/DhtE4B) by Robert Brazile (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrazile/), on Flickr

Robert

You fellows (Jac, Scott, Randy x 2, & Robert) have all posted some terrific plates. There are several that I’d love to see in person. This is really giving me an itch to start actively collecting these. Probably because my own personal work is focused on portraiture, Robert, I think that final image you posted above is just perfect. The gestures, the expressions, the details (those hats!) all contribute to a unity that I think is rare in these types of portraits. Thank you for sharing it.

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

[Randy]

Wolcott Colorado 1880's or 1890's
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b4amkixr2okei1t/st006.jpg?dl=1

Raymond found the location and shot this comparison back in 2011
https://www.dropbox.com/s/1flwe5abpehwiia/st006c.jpg?dl=1

[Robert Brazile]

Glad you enjoyed them, Cameron. I love that last one, too.

Robert

[Greg]

top lighthouse is Point Montara, CA; tower was formerly from Mayo Beach on Cape Cod

[Greg]

Second image from top in second group is Ft. Point, Portsmouth, NH

[Steven Ruttenberg]

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.

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Scott

Very cool.

[Tin Can]

Lantern Slides

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/799/40806837044_188b1bb915_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/25aXGXW)Typical Mt Church Blue Ridge Mt Cracked glass (https://flic.kr/p/25aXGXW) by moe.randy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/911/41519740801_a34770802d_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/26fXwq2)Cauilflower & Apples Bitter Root Valley (https://flic.kr/p/26fXwq2) by moe.randy (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr

[DrTang]

there is a facebook group.. and I think flickr has a group that posts such pix

I have a small collection

here's a flickr album that some scans are in (along with scans of found prints and such..)

https://flic.kr/s/aHsjzL43N1

[RedGreenBlue]

Found a number of 4x5 glass plate negatives in a Central Dry Plates box. The photos are from Oregon. I've already posted a few of the images. Here's another.

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[RedGreenBlue]

One more from the box.

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[Cameron Cornell]

You fellows have some gems. I followed your link, DrTang. That is a fantastic collection.

Here are two more that I printed on Sunday. First is a 5x7, second is 4x5. The second was very tricky to print.

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Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

[RedGreenBlue]

You fellows have some gems. I followed your link, DrTang. That is a fantastic collection.

The second was very tricky to print.

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Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

Spirits? I love the vignette, which I presume is due to ageing emulsion. Super.

Here is a damaged 5x7 glass plate negative that I found in an ancient and poorly stored 5x7 film holder, of all places. Lots of damage to the emulsion but still... there's life there. My quick scan may not have done this justice.

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[Chris7521]

Great to see everybody's pictures! I've collected some myself.

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[Chris7521]

A few more
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And one Autochrome
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[Robert Brazile]

Ah...nice. Did you pick that Autochrome up at Photographica a few weeks ago, then? I looked at it long and hard... :-)

Robert

[Cameron Cornell]

Chris, those are fantastic! Thank you for sharing them.

Here is a 5x7 plate that I just bought from a fellow in England:

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I'm bit. I'm going to keep looking for these.

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

[Chris7521]

Ah...nice. Did you pick that Autochrome up at Photographica a few weeks ago, then? I looked at it long and hard... :-)

Robert

Yes I did, for some reason I couldn't leave without it though I tried a couple of times. The chances of seeing another like that are slim so I bit the bullet :)
The only thing I bought there and the only Autochrome I own.

[RedGreenBlue]

The Autochrome is exceptional.

[Robert Brazile]

Yes I did, for some reason I couldn't leave without it though I tried a couple of times. The chances of seeing another like that are slim so I bit the bullet :)
The only thing I bought there and the only Autochrome I own.

I don't blame you at all. I picked it up and put it down several times, it's lovely. But I hit that table at the end of the day rather than the beginning, and had already spent enough: including coming home with a couple boxes of antique dry plates (and one box of Jason's modern ones, to compare to my own), and one...autochrome, found at another table. The glass was broken along one side, but it was still recoverable, and much less expensive as a result. FWIW.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/808/27586612578_4c94677c26_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/J2JAPm)
FF-082, Springtime Autochrome (https://flic.kr/p/J2JAPm) by Robert Brazile (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrazile/), on Flickr

Robert

[G Benaim]

Have any of you printed these negs on paper? Curious what they'd look like as actual prints, probably have enough density for silver chloride and alt processes no ?

[Chris7521]

I don't blame you at all. I picked it up and put it down several times, it's lovely. But I hit that table at the end of the day rather than the beginning, and had already spent enough: including coming home with a couple boxes of antique dry plates (and one box of Jason's modern ones, to compare to my own), and one...autochrome, found at another table. The glass was broken along one side, but it was still recoverable, and much less expensive as a result. FWIW.

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/808/27586612578_4c94677c26_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/J2JAPm)
FF-082, Springtime Autochrome (https://flic.kr/p/J2JAPm) by Robert Brazile (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbrazile/), on Flickr

Robert
Good find, thanks for sharing.

[Robert Brazile]

Have any of you printed these negs on paper? Curious what they'd look like as actual prints, probably have enough density for silver chloride and alt processes no ?

Silver chloride for sure. Alt processes, sometimes (in my limited experience).

Robert

[Molli]

Whole Glass Plate Negative circa 1915, although the soldier's 'Rising Sun' Australian Army badge suggests prior to 1904 when the badge had a straight bar at the bottom rather than the scroll design which followed. Family details and location unknown.




Contact printed on Ilford Multigrade IV RC Pearl Paper.

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[Tin Can]

Good prints.

I gotta try that hat fold.

[Molli]

Turn of the century (Late 1800s, early 1900s?) half plate glass negatives. Contact printed on Ilford Multigrade IV RC Pearl Paper.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180527/4e9938d356690c697051379584b65a3f.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180527/f99230c356d8fa35b4843a9d84968f99.jpg

[Tin Can]

I really like that you are showing prints and not neg scans.




Turn of the century (Late 1800s, early 1900s?) half plate glass negatives. Contact printed on Ilford Multigrade IV RC Pearl Paper.
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[Molli]

Good prints.

I gotta try that hat fold.Hi Randy,

I was surprised at how easily this plate printed. They looked incredibly thin to me, however, they're simply straight contact prints using my standard proof print set up.

I have around thirty quarter plates which looked as though they'd be equally easy but were an absolute pain in the butt!

Regarding the slouch hat, just be sure you have the correct side folded up - Australian State dependent upon what drill your regiment uses, what year you're playing in and/or what you're doing at the time. Oh, and be sure to have the correct puggaree! [emoji5]

(https://www.army.gov.au/our-history/traditions/the-slouch-hat)

[Molli]

I really like that you are showing prints and not neg scans.Um, so I SHOULDN'T upload the quick digital restoration I did of that last plate?! [emoji5]


Also, my apologies if the images are massively oversized or anyone's seeing double-ups. I think this might be the first time I've used the LFF's Tapatalk upload software and I kept getting kicked back to the thread with no reply inserted.

[Tin Can]

Do whatever you want. I am just here for the show!


Um, so I SHOULDN'T upload the quick digital restoration I did of that last plate?!

[Molli]

Do whatever you want. I am just here for the show!It's okay, I really only "repaired" the lifted emulsion along that left hand side. At the time I made the prints, all three plates were merely on loan. I now own them and would be very grateful to anyone who could tell me if there's any safe way to keep that edge from deteriorating further. I've read of preservationists floating the emulsion off and onto another plate but, as a caretaker not originator, there's no way I'm doing anything so risky.

[Tin Can]

I doubt I will find an official Slouch hat. I collect and wear hats. It looks extremely useful.

Hopefully I never have to fold one for battle.

Very interesting history lesson. Thanks!

[EarlJam]

My grandfather, circa 1908, taken near the family's home in the UK. He was born in 1891 and appears to be around 17 years of age, hence the guess at the date.

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[Jac@stafford.net]

I gotta try that hat fold.

It was useful for a right-handed rifleman using a bolt-action.

[Tin Can]

Yes, just like I trained on. Kids didn’t get hats then.


It was useful for a right-handed rifleman using a bolt-action.

[Molli]

A few more quick and dirty contact prints. Quarter plate only this time. I invite you to zoom in on some old school retouching in the image of the young girl. Evidently she couldn't keep from swinging her feet during the exposure...

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[Molli]

My grandfather, circa 1908, taken near the family's home in the UK. He was born in 1891 and appears to be around 17 years of age, hence the guess at the date.

178649I love the family connection! I had a friend who made beautiful prints from his grandmother's negatives. I only have access to prints. You're so lucky to have such a treasure!

[Molli]

And one toned lantern slide... https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180528/d9adb5e5aad9d97c180c06fc76c8b93c.jpg

[EarlJam]

I love the family connection! I had a friend who made beautiful prints from his grandmother's negatives. I only have access to prints. You're so lucky to have such a treasure!

Thanks, Molli! I do feel very fortunate to have inherited my family's archive of glass plate and film negatives, transparencies, prints, and home movies, going back to the late 1800s. After I "discovered" them in my dad's house, I scanned as much as I could and had the movies transferred to DVD for distribution to others in my generation, and to create an archive for the generation coming up. It still fascinates me that I could pick up a 100-year old lump of glass, hold it to the light and know that it's an image of something, and then recover the image.

Here are a couple more images from the same period: my great-grandmother (on the left) and her best friend during the family's time in Manchester, UK; and younger brothers and sister, all of whom I was fortunate to know when I was growing up.

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[Molli]

Thanks, Molli! I do feel very fortunate to have inherited my family's archive of glass plate and film negatives, transparencies, prints, and home movies, going back to the late 1800s. After I "discovered" them in my dad's house, I scanned as much as I could and had the movies transferred to DVD for distribution to others in my generation, and to create an archive for the generation coming up. It still fascinates me that I could pick up a 100-year old lump of glass, hold it to the light and know that it's an image of something, and then recover the image.

Here are a couple more images from the same period: my great-grandmother (on the left) and her best friend during the family's time in Manchester, UK; and younger brothers and sister, all of whom I was fortunate to know when I was growing up.

178650178651Oh, they're beautiful! The closest I've managed is to scan prints and digitally restore them. I've had an 80th and 90th birthday for two members of my family in the past few years and had the restorations printed and I popped them into little hand made albums but, while the recipients liked them, it just wasn't the same at all as handling those original prints. To have had access to the negatives would have kept me happy and busy wet printing them for the rest of my life!
So, I am smiling for the gift you have there whilst trying extraordinarily hard not to let envy creep in!
I do hope you have good notes attached with your collection. I have a photo with, "Mum, taken yesterday" written on the back. I have NO idea whose Mum she is, her clothes could have been made any time in the past 60 years and she's standing in front of a tree. Not helpful.

Once again, EarlJam, gorgeous plates and the memories that go with them are wonderful.

[bloodhoundbob]

It was useful for a right-handed rifleman using a bolt-action.

Not sure about the hat thingie, but we left-handed shooters can tell ya it can occasionally be hazardous to one's health while shooting a rifle with right-side ejection. Yikes!

[Tin Can]

Not sure about the hat thingie, but we left-handed shooters can tell ya it can occasionally be hazardous to one's health while shooting a rifle with right-side ejection. Yikes!

My right-handed brother used shotguns lefty so we got him an Ithaca 37 bottom eject.

[bloodhoundbob]

My right-handed brother used shotguns lefty so we got him an Ithaca 37 bottom eject.

The military didn't recognize left-handed shooters back in my day. That brass can feel hot on the face!

[Tin Can]

The military didn't recognize left-handed shooters back in my day. That brass can feel hot on the face!

He enlisted in 1964 but spent most of his time on Okinawa fixing Teletype machines. I think all communications went through there. He never was in country.

[bloodhoundbob]

He enlisted in 1964 but spent most of his time on Okinawa fixing Teletype machines. I think all communications went through there. He never was in country.

Same year I enlisted. We could not shoot the M-14 on full-auto in basic training, as I can only imagine the potential casualties. I only shot it on auto on Sunday afternoons when we would take it and my Thompson off the coast of Nha Trang for some pleasure shooting.

[andrewch59]

Ah! the old Kleinshmidt Teletype machines! For most of my Army career we used those, could type ninety words a minute on them. They would type onto tape ready for transmission via a td4. All ex US surplus

[Cameron Cornell]

Here are three prints that I made this month from glass plate negatives in my little collection...

191904
5x7

191905
5x7

191906
4x5

Anybody have new additions to their collections?

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com
www.instagram.com/papacornell

[Tin Can]

Like!

[paulbarden]

Anybody have new additions to their collections?

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

I was given some glass plate negs last July and I ought to have posted them here. There are others which I have yet to scan, but this was the best one of the bunch, as far as exposure and condition was concerned:

https://live.staticflickr.com/840/42415252364_c9c1d92462_h.jpg
www.instagram.com/papacornell

[Cameron Cornell]

The clarity on that plate is beautiful.

[paulbarden]

The clarity on that plate is beautiful.

Quite. Someone knew what they were doing!

[Cameron Cornell]

Here's a 4x5 glass plate negative that I printed last Sunday. I bought it on eBay from a seller in Austin, TX.

192328

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com
www.instagram.com/papacornell

[Tin Can]

Posted elsewhere here about 2017.

https://live.staticflickr.com/309/32345056291_5dd5ae6018_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/RhdSmk)Magic Lantern slide Elizabeth St NYC (https://flic.kr/p/RhdSmk) by TIN CAN COLLEGE (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tincancollege/), on Flickr

[Neal Chaves]

This is actually a glass plate positive 3 1/4X4 1/4. My mother, Beth Strange, stands on the wing of a Waco biplane in Portalnd, Me. 1937, photographed by Kahill Studios. This plate is framed on top of a polished copper back plate so that it resembles a tin type and was thought to be one until I took it apart a few years ago. I don't know it the plate is a camera original processed to a positive, or a contact print on a glass plate of a camera negative. Maybe you smart guys have seen images like this before and know how it was done.194011

[Tin Can]

Mine is a Lantern Slide, perhaps others are also.

[William Whitaker]

Cameron,
The first image, first post looks a lot like Bug Light in Portland, ME. The structure is different, so it may not be. But what's there today is also a "spark plug" lighthouse. And the setting very much resembles the Portland breakwater today.
First image, fourth post is the Portland Head light.
And first image, fifth post is the Nubble, Cape Neddick, ME.

This is a great thread. I don't know how I missed it until today. But you've really got me missing Maine now!

[Cameron Cornell]

I’m glad you like the thread, Will. Thanks for the information on those plates- I really appreciate it. Here is a portrait from a studio in Nebraska. It’s a 5x7 glass plate that I printed in June. Her dress is as dense as lead on the negative. The final print there took, I think, about 2 minutes burning in with the aperture wide open.

194043

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

[William Whitaker]

I’m glad you like the thread, Will. Thanks for the information on those plates- I really appreciate it. Here is a portrait from a studio in Nebraska. It’s a 5x7 glass plate that I printed in June. Her dress is as dense as lead on the negative. The final print there took, I think, about 2 minutes burning in with the aperture wide open.

194043

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

That's a cute image. ("Cute" is a word I never thought I'd use on this forum!) But it is. I wonder how the photographer got her to hold still... and keep her white dress clean!

[Chauncey Walden]

Contact print I made from a 5x7 Lumiere glass plate negative. The construction of the Viaduc du Viaur in France. Made by an amateur and dated 1901 in the negative. Wouldn't OSHA have had fun at that site! Note the men scattered around on the girders - including the one being raised!194047

[Cameron Cornell]

Here's a 4x5 glass plate negative that I bought last spring and just got around to printing:

196788

The fellow is posing with his stereoscope. The book next to him on the table is titled, "Superior Photographs of Famous Scenes."

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

[John Jarosz]

Two glass negs from the WWI period. My buddy's grandfather served. The one of the guy driving the truck is his grandfather. The plates were left out in an open box since the '30's Really bad shape.196945196944

[Cameron Cornell]

Two glass negs from the WWI period. My buddy's grandfather served. The one of the guy driving the truck is his grandfather. The plates were left out in an open box since the '30's Really bad shape.196945196944

Those are terrific. I love the candid shot in the camp.

[Cameron Cornell]

200238

Canadian soldier during World War I. This is a contact print from a 5x7 glass plate negative.

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
analogportraiture.com
instagram.com/papacornell

[Tin Can]

These words came immediately to mind 'Tales of the Future Past' and I was not sure of where I got those words.

There is writer using them...synchronicity...I never read his stuff...





200238

Canadian soldier during World War I. This is a contact print from a 5x7 glass plate negative.

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
analogportraiture.com
instagram.com/papacornell

[Cameron Cornell]

200250

Contact print from a 5x7 glass plate negative.

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
analogportraiture.com
instagram.com/papacornell

[Don Dudenbostel]

I've owned this plate for years and can't remember how I came to own it. It's in beautiful shape and is a whole plate size.

[Tin Can]

That is fantastic, a story told.


I've owned this plate for years and can't remember how I came to own it. It's in beautiful shape and is a whole plate size.

[Don Dudenbostel]

My father carried a couple of cameras around Europe when he was in WWII. One was a 6x9 glass plate camera. It seems like he said it was an Agfa but I wouldn't swear to it.

These were shot between 1940 and 1945 in Belgium, France, England and the Netherlands. Unfortunately I never knew the locations and there are no markings.

[Don Dudenbostel]

Here are a couple more images from my dads WWII photos. All from 6x9 glass plates. The dos some of them were in was marked Gevert plates.

[Tin Can]

Very nice also

I have prewar prints of my father in USA uniform, but no idea how they were made

and one of mother with her tiny trailer she lived in for the duration in LA

I think I posted those here some time ago

[Don Dudenbostel]

Very nice also

I have prewar prints of my father in USA uniform, but no idea how they were made

and one of mother with her tiny trailer she lived in for the duration in LA

I think I posted those here some time ago

My father was born in 1919 and is the front center soldier in the first two images and the person up the telephone pole.

I should start another thread in the small format section. I have quite a few rolls of 35mm negs of street scenes in Paris and Antwerp during that period. I also have a number of military images of many tanks and equipment.

I thought today about starting a thread on old photo albums and vintage CDV and cabinet cards. I’d also like to include old wetplate and Daguerre types. I’ve picked up some pretty nice images and old albums over the decades and would like to share them. I have one beautiful album shot in San Francisco in 1900 of the 4th of July parade downtown and steam ships in the bay. The prints are all beautiful including some panoramas and are toned in a warm rust color.

I’d love to share these and see others images.

[Jim Noel]

Cameron, THanks for these. I truly appreciate their unique sharpness.

[Scott --]

Years ago I bought a 4x5 contact frame, advertised with no glass. The seller threw in a piece of glass as a bonus. Was this plate:

https://live.staticflickr.com/5100/5445080495_359b7fddd1_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/9iasJc)0131 (https://flic.kr/p/9iasJc) by Scott (https://www.flickr.com/photos/scott--/), on Flickr

Told me to wash off the emulsion and it'd be good as new. Couldn't believe that.