The Last Muster Brings Together Rare 19th-Century Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, and Carte Des Visite Paper Photographs

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A remarkable work of documentary history, The Last Muster is a collection of rare 19th-century photographic images—primarily daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and carte des visite paper photographs—of the Revolutionary War generation. This extraordinary collection of images assigns faces to an un-illustrated war [...]

 
Footnote Maven has honored DeadFred.com with a celebration of our 100,000th photo record in her beautifully designed Shades Of The Departed The Magazine Mouring Issue .  Thank you Linda for your kindness !
 
http://www.shadesofthedeparted.com/2010/10/shades-magazine-memento-mori-issue-2010.html

George Edward Anderson’s photographic collection reflects his lifelong commitment to his photography and his religion. The photographs taken over his career, spanning 1878-1928, demonstrate his artistry with a camera and his perfectionism. Both studio and environmental portraits of Utah residents are available in the thousands
 http://www.lib.byu.edu/dlib/anderson/

This photo is from an album I purchased on Ebay .  Oringinal Owners must have been fairly well off. You can see the album here http://www.deadfred.com/surnameIndR_05.php?sLastName=Shenandoah
My MAHON Great Grandparents came from this area .  Maybe they are in this album .. would’nt that be nice.  
 

Type in a surname to see what’s new
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An amazing photographic addition to the history of the early Republic http://upress.kent.edu/books/Taylor_M.htm
 If there’s such a thing as a paradigm shift in the way we look at American Revolutionary War history Maureen Taylor’s  new book leads the way .  Maureen has spent years researching , compiling and bringing to life in Pictures and Genealogy the people who lived [...]

 
For 70 years, this picture has been used to tell the same story – of inequality, class division, “toffs and toughs”. As an old Etonian closes in on Downing Street, it is being trotted out again. But what was the story behind it?
Link to Ian Jacks article at moreintelligentlife.com
http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ian-jack/5-boys

Recieved this email below today ,  thought I would share . Wouldn’t this type of tragedy   be relatively easy to ferret out? but then again maybe not..  If you have any suggestion for Leslie the email address is below .
“Hi , i am looking for any knowledge off my great grandfather - Durham Greig , who was a police [...]

 
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I recently started to post some of my own photo’s onto flickr.com hoping to connect and make some reunions. Little did I realize how many creative people are members there.  One in particular is Barty2008 who also goes by the name of Jan ( real name). Jan lives in England .   Here is a link to her Journal [...]

If your a vintage photo collector here’s a great site for buying vintage photos , if your not in the market to buy you can still browse and enjoy history through photos . Bill Bohn has done a nice job with his website . Its worth a visit.
Bill say’s

“If you collect vintage photographs, [...]