{"id":22980,"date":"2022-03-27T01:05:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T05:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22980"},"modified":"2022-03-26T22:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T02:40:38","slug":"in-the-briny-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/in-the-briny-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"in the briny deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22981\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/123874334_womanambro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22981\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22981\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/123874334_womanambro-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ambrotype recoved from a downed ship after some 165 year in the sea<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\">BBC News<\/a> for March 26, 2022 has a story titled. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-60866212\">SS Central America: Haunting photos recovered [in] the &#8216;ship of gold&#8217;<\/a> wreck on ocean floor&#8221;. The photographs that that survived the watery grave were all cased images with well made cases and seals.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC states, &#8220;It was a hurricane that sealed the fate for 425 people returning to the US east coast &#8230; .<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; &#8230; some passengers were also carrying something of more personal value &#8211; photographs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Salvaged from the ship&#8217;s wreckage in 2014 were daguerreotypes, the first successful commercial form of photography &#8211; a one-off picture held on a metal plate &#8211; and ambrotypes, a type of glass plate photography.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visit the BBC site to see and read about the discovery. Thank you to my good friend, George Dunbar, for bringing this story to my attention!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0The BBC News for March 26, 2022 has a story titled. &#8220;SS Central America: Haunting photos recovered [in] the &#8216;ship of gold&#8217; wreck on ocean floor&#8221;. The photographs that that survived the watery grave were all cased images with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/in-the-briny-deep\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[641,4062,627,4063],"class_list":["post-22980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-ambrotypes","tag-cased-photos","tag-daguerreotypes","tag-ship-wreck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22984,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22980\/revisions\/22984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}