Category Archives: history

getting it there

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. I received further material on Women in the Air late on the 5th. George Dunbar sent me this photo and link. It ties in nicely with an American story of similar female pilots ferrying aircraft on the West coast … Continue reading →

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an interesting archive to our east.

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. The photo you see is from the Whitney Archive courtesy of the Pickering Library. You can see  many options here. The grid on the photos may be a newspaper halftone or a means to ‘protect’ these images. Associated with … Continue reading →

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flight history

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. I have made earlier posts about how history has been helped by photography. Recently I was reminded of this fact by a note from my good friend George Dunbar. George writes, “Some interesting book titles listed here for those … Continue reading →

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the tin men

Posted on March 2, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. The advent of the wet plate process provided a means to continue on with the cased images like the daguerreotype, create a negative for paper prints, or expose a black Japanned piece of ‘iron’ to be cased or mailed … Continue reading →

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the time before giant (cheap) TVs

Posted on March 1, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. The devastation of industrial facilities in much of the world brought a new class of adventurer/photographer to the forefront. In parts of the world, It was cheaper to abandon facilities ‘in-place’ rather than remove them after decommission, to repurpose … Continue reading →

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ambrosia

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. The “next big thing” in photography, after its announcement,  was the wet plate process developed by Frederick Scott Archer of the UK in 1851. Interestingly, the new process did not ‘catch on’ with all Daguerreotypists immediately. A few years … Continue reading →

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some thoughts on collecting …

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. I noticed over the years different kinds of people collect photographica (cameras, accessories, photographs, memorabilia, etc.). Some collectors researched their possessions and often sold items either to fund new purchases or after a better quality version was acquired. Others … Continue reading →

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bunch of Klapp

Posted on February 20, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. In English, we say a camera is a folder if it has a bellows that can be folded so the body and lens are more compact – like Kodak folders. In German, the term is klapp, not folder. The … Continue reading →

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an archives to remember

Posted on February 18, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. The Yukon Archives pulled together a nifty little illustrated pdf covering their history from 1972 to 2012 including a selection of photographs and memorabilia from its fonds. Like other provinces and territories, the Yukon has many lakes. To the … Continue reading →

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Lewis Frissell movie maker 1903 – 1931

Posted on February 17, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. My good friend George Dunbar noticed this article on the late Lewis Frissell while browsing the Dictionary of Canadian Biography website. While Frissell was born in NYC, his thirst for adventure and doing something meaningful with his life brought … Continue reading →

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