Tag: historic

  • Itinerant Photography

    An interesting phenomenon that I’d never heard of before. Back in the 30’s, itinerant photographers would photograph many aspects of a town and it’s residents, then try to sell prints to said residents. Here is a fairly large gallery of photo’s from this time period, hosted by the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center. It’s…

  • Golden Gate Bridge in January

    [singlepic id=222 w=320 h=240 float=center] Back in January of this year, I managed to find myself in San Jose, California, on a business trip. It was a great trip. I spent the weekend with my cousin Justin, and had a blast photographing various locations in San Francisco. Here is a shot of the bridge across…

  • Hugh Morton

    Hugh Morton was the grandson of Hugh Macrae. If you grew up, or lived for just a little while, in Wilmington, NC, then you’ve probably heard the name Hugh Macrae – at the very least you’ve been by Hugh Macrae Park for a stroll around the pond once or twice. Hugh Morton, among other things,…

  • Russian color photography ca. 1910

    Now here is something truly amazing. The Boston Globe reports on a set of color photos of the Russian empire from around 1910. How did this happen, you ask? Well… Back in the early 20th century, between 1905 and 1910, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, a scientist and a photographer, had the idea of educating school children…

  • Jesse Marshall

    [singlepic id=143 w=200 h=267 float=left] [singlepic id=142 w=200 h=267 float=left] This is my Great Uncle Jessie Marshall, MSgt US Air Corps ca 1942, on the wing of a BT-13 Vultee Vibrator.

  • Opacity – Epicenter

    Opacity is a photoblog run by Tom Kirsch, aka Motts. The man simply goes where I would never have the kihones to even look at, much less enter. And he brings back photographic evidence. His photos are pretty amazing, he obviously spends quite a bit of time in the places he visits getting his shots…

  • Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog

    Thanks to my friend Paul, I came across this set of photographs from the early 40’s. They’re in color! These images show us a time when there was no internet, no television, no X-box or Wii, and definitely no cell phones. And yet, these people manage to get along just fine. You can see a…

  • My Family

    Here is a collection of old photos of some of my family. I found these in a box at my moms house, they span a period of time from the 30’s all the way to the 80’s – a fifty year visual slice of family history. Here you will see people like Uncle Harry, who…