{"id":31951,"date":"2025-07-21T01:03:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31951"},"modified":"2025-07-19T02:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T06:00:41","slug":"quartet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31952\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/quartet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31952\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31952\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/quartet-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four Ladies (generations?) with a drawer of photos<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0Okay, all you image collectors, here is some food for thought. For the cover of issue 24-5, editor Bob Lansdale used a photograph courtesy of Robert Wilson. The photo shows four ladies and a drawer full of photos taken around the late 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Lansdale describes this photo as follows, &#8220;Possibly four generations, this is a curious portrait as four ladies shuffle\u00a0through a drawer of old photographs sending a symbolic\u00a0message to the\u00a0recipient of the\u00a0picture. Alas,\u00a0the charcoal-grey mount\u00a0with embossed\u00a0ivy-leaf frame, c. 1895-1900 bears no\u00a0identity of photographer nor sitters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the four and their approximate ages, it indeed looks like four generations of women. Do you have any multi-generational images like this in your collection? As to this specific photograph, can you identify the studio? the date? the people? If so, drop me an email at <a href=\"mailto:info@phsc.ca\">info@phsc.ca<\/a> possibly with the reason for your opinion.<\/p>\n<p>To add to your collection, drop in at the PHSC EVENTS (see right) for 2025. Next up is our Fall Fair set for October 19th at the usual spot. Details and a poster will be posted here closer to the date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0Okay, all you image collectors, here is some food for thought. For the cover of issue 24-5, editor Bob Lansdale used a photograph courtesy of Robert Wilson. The photo shows four ladies and a drawer full of photos taken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/quartet\/\">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":[127,400,613,585],"class_list":["post-31951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-collection","tag-fair","tag-photo","tag-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951","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=31951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31955,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951\/revisions\/31955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}