If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
Coveting The Craziest Cat-People Collectibles
Posted 2 years ago
antiquesar…
(135 items)
These tintypes are of, my great, great, great grandmother, Louvina (Mitchell) Call (Left Photo=Center, Right Photo=Right) and her brothers, William Mitchell (Left Photo=Left, Right Photo=Left) and James Mitchell (Left Photo=Right, Right Photo=Center). I have tried to enhance these so that they can be seen better. The photo on the right has clearly had a rough life! It is rippled and scratched and very damaged. One thing that I really love is, in the right photo, there is an arm, on the right, that is holding Louvina up, so that she doesn't fall over. If you would like to add anything please comment...
TintypesWhile most early photo processes involved paper or light metal plates, tint…
I swear when I look at old photos, I can see people they remind me of! thanks for sharing ;)
William's hair is so funny!! Poor mom, trying to get it to stay down for the photograph, and his hair sticking right back up!! lol
hotkitties: A lot of my my current (living) relatives resemble most of my old photos, it's so cool!!!
Esther110: I also noticed that! This was a strict family too, I've heard a lot of stories.
Louvina, the little girl in these two, would not let her kids go barefoot. I've heard that from the moment that they stepped out of bed, they were to have shoes on.