Ambrotype Civil War Crossdressing Female Soldier?
2024年9月10日 · It appears to be a Civil War era crossdressing female who is wearing some type of buttoned double-breasted clothing along with what looks like an overcoat. The clothing, the short cut hair, the hat and the neckerchief remind me of what Old West legendary Calamity Jane would have worn.
Ambrotypes for Sale | Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics
6 天之前 · Sixth-plate ambrotype of a seated woman, posed before a beautiful scenic backdrop, just looking up from the book in her lap. This image is housed in a rare book-like case (Berg 4-27, George Washington in a Circle).
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Tinted Civil War Era Ambrotype of Beautiful Women Interesting Dress Pattern Gold
Res Obscura: Early Victorian Ambrotypes - Blogger
2010年12月23日 · Below I'm posting a random sampling of some ambrotypes from the 1850s and 1860s that I found via a Google image search and the large Wikimedia Commons library of ambrotype images. Interestingly, unlike most other photographic media, ambrotypes are negatives - the colors were reversed by simply inserting a black velvet backing behind the ...
Ambrotypes - Library of Congress
An ambrotype is comprised of an underexposed glass negative placed against a dark background. The dark backing material creates a positive image. Photographers often applied pigments to the surface of the plate to add color, often tinting cheeks and lips red and adding gold highlights to jewelry, buttons, and belt buckles.
Ambrotype - Wikipedia
The ambrotype, also known as a collodion positive in the UK, is a positive photograph on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process. Following the invention of daguerreotypes, cheaper than the French invention, ambrotypes came to replace them. Like a print on paper, it is viewed by reflected light.
Ambrotype of African American Woman with Flag
This rare photograph of an African American woman shows her in her best dress, with an American flag pinned to her bodice. The flag has often served as a symbolic, as well as a political, statement, especially for African Americans.
A Soldier’s Comfort? – "Your Dying Charlotte"
2017年6月8日 · After the massive military engagement at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the first week of July 1863, a local girl recovered an ambrotype of three children that was purportedly clasped by a dead Union soldier.
POWERFUL 1/6 PLATE AMBROTYPE OF TOUGH AMERICAN PIONEER WOMAN …
POWERFUL1/6 PLATE AMBROTYPE OF TOUGH AMERICAN PIONEER WOMANThis is a commanding portrait of a tough American pioneer woman. This 1/6 plate ambrotype is of a Granny has seen it all; she looks like she ...from
Photography: Ambrotype - histclo.com
2002年12月22日 · Ambrotypes were mounted against black backing appearing like a positive, but did not have the tonal range of a Daguerreotype and could not be duplicated. The tintype was a variant of the ambrotype (Ferrotype or Melaninotype). It produced positive images usually on a thin sheet of iron.