tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post2497096467397345706..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: When was this picture taken?Randy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-74312147637628191442008-07-31T05:58:00.000-07:002008-07-31T05:58:00.000-07:00Hi Randy! The woman's dress and the man's attire s...Hi Randy! The woman's dress and the man's attire suggests it was taken in the 1850s. The image itself doesn't look reflective so it's either an ambrotype or tintype. This narrows the time frame to after 1856 to c. 1860<BR/> <BR/>Your scanner read the glass rather than the image. One of my Epson scanner's does that and the other doesn't. <BR/><BR/>Caught your posting due to the Practical Archivist.The Photo Detectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07079080718747558091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-12030294013685087822007-07-14T00:16:00.000-07:002007-07-14T00:16:00.000-07:00The photos are almost certainly tintypes, which fi...The photos are almost certainly tintypes, which first appeared in the late 1850s, Since they were cheap and not fragile, they became wildly popular when the civil war started: many soldiers going off to war sent photos of themselves home. Cases such as yours were first developed for the expensive and fragile daguerrotypes and ambrotypes in the 1840s, though it is not uncommon to find tintypes in cases. There are several books of illustrated examples to guide in identifying and dating the various types of cases. Try your public library.<BR/>By the late 1860s, "cabinet cards" or "cartes de visite" on thick paper stock started replacing tintypes, and by the 1870s, few tintypes were being produced. Your photo was probably taken between 1857 and 1869, with the clothing and hairstyles suggesting the earlier part of that range.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-4062275725554014182007-06-01T13:07:00.000-07:002007-06-01T13:07:00.000-07:00Thanks to Dana, Jimmy and Joy for their comments.Thanks to Dana, Jimmy and Joy for their comments.Randy Seaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-89148427228514880512007-06-01T11:33:00.000-07:002007-06-01T11:33:00.000-07:00The first URL got cut off in my post. It'shttp://w...The first URL got cut off in my post. It's<BR/><BR/>http://www.costumes.org/history<BR/>/100pages/photodating.htm .<BR/><BR/>JoyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-91638398038677880922007-06-01T11:31:00.000-07:002007-06-01T11:31:00.000-07:00Randy,http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/pho...Randy,<BR/><BR/>http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/photodating.htm<BR/>and http://www.cyndislist.com/photos.htm#Dating have a lot of links to information about dating historical photographs.<BR/><BR/>Joy RichAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-63447248535014306842007-06-01T01:41:00.000-07:002007-06-01T01:41:00.000-07:00I have a similar portrait and decorative metal cas...I have a similar portrait and decorative metal casing, which was taken just before the subject signed up for the civil war. This ties up with the comment by Dana.JMKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12570001911725536685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-76999660030991662232007-05-31T18:09:00.000-07:002007-05-31T18:09:00.000-07:00My $.02, for what it's worth as I am no expert, is...My $.02, for what it's worth as I am no expert, is that it is Civil War-era. Look at the hairstyles and the woman's dress in particular. They're right out of Gone with the Wind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com