Archive for the '01 - Daguerreotype' Category
Hair on Men in the 1840s
Hairstyles come in such a bewildering variety, that we are going to look at styles one decade at a time, and have separate posts on men and women. That gives us subjects for 22 posts to cover 1839-1949 (we include 1839 with the 1840s since it was photography’s first year), so we won’t do them […]
Read More..>>Wide Crossed Neck Ribbons
Nineteenth century women loved to wear ribbons — in their hats and hair, around their necks and waists, or just tied in a bow and fixed to their dress. So we have no shortage of images showing women wearing ribbons. But there were fashions in just how a ribbon was to be worn, and what […]
Read More..>>Observing Preservers
Preservers. Not exactly Life Preservers, but in a sense serving the same purpose. In case mounted images, such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and early tintypes, the preserver was a thin brass (or more specifically, ‘pinchbeck’) element, folded around the edges of the image, cover-mat, and glass cover.
How would such a contrivance ‘preserve’ the image? Well, when […]