Old found tintype
Old found tintype
This is a little more than 1/4 of a panorama made by a cirkut camera. 1929 rodeo, the 1928 rodeo didn't have the fence, only the cars in the circle.
Thad Gerheim
Website: http:/thadgerheimgallery.com
I recently went to Kingman, Indiana and met some relatives I had not known. While there I was able to copy a photograph of my Great-grandparents with two of their children. The young girl was my grandmother. She was born in 1896, so I would estimate the age of it to be about 1904 ish. I had seen pictures of my Great-grandfather and a few faint recollections of him from my childhood, but never had seen any of my Great-grandmother. The image of my grandmother as a small girl was a joy to find.
The preservation of history and family has always been one of the primary purposes of photography. IMHO.
Wm.
My brother found this 8x10 tintype.
Not sure but I think it was created on a thin copper plate. If you hold it in the sun, it gets hot quickly. I'm kind of pretty sure it's a photograph of some type.
Anyway, not sure how or what it was made from. It appears to be hand "tinted" if that's the correct term.
A local antique dealer has a large estate sale warehouse sale at the first of every month. There was a box full of photo cans of b&w negatives from 1939 to the mid 1960's for 75 cents each. I picked up 26 rolls from 1939-1949. It will be interesting to take a look at home life during the war years. I also found these four little ambrotypes.
joe ray
parked in front of the Tonopah Post Office on Main St. probably about 1950
Found this in a stack of negatives from my grandfather's family. Not sure where it was taken.
And a detail for Jim's benefit:
Jonathan
Ah, the age of lumber. A lovely car but I can't identify it. Not a Ford or Chebbie. Maybe an early Chrysler. Anyone know?Originally Posted by jcoldslabs
Any help in identifying the military unit this guy came from would be much appreciated. It could be he was attending a fair and someone had a dress-up kit he posed in and this is not an actual soldier at all. It is most probably American, not British, despite the pith helmet. Most likely pre-1880 from the various pieces of accoutrement he's wearing (if it is a US Army uniform, the belt buckle puts it before 1873, when they changed to rectangular buckles). Beyond that I can't tell anything for certain.
That's a touring car from the early 20s. Very hard to identify, because it was a popular body style and many had a very similar appearance. To me, it looks a lot like a 1923 Oakland 6 Touring, but it could just as well be a Buick, a Dodge, a Chrysler or one of the many obscure cars still being manufactured at the time.
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