Daguerreotype

 Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process.

Daguerreotype - Wikipedia

Daguerreotypes Of People From Virginia - The Gene Genie

Because I have a Daguerreotype of my ancestor, Thomas Bailey Christian, in Virginia, with his 2nd wife who is wearing a bonnet, I thought I would do an image search to see if I could learn anything. Maybe find the photographer!

Pinterest search "Daguerreotype + bonnet"

https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=%22daguerreotype%20bonnet%22&rs=typed

Mystery Photo Game

I am trying to start a Mystery Photo Game. The key is the right hashtags on X. My #$%&* website that I love has a period in the middle.- memory.industries - And you can't have periods in hashtags., Grrr.

I guess it is unique enough to use without the period so the hashtag will be #memoryindustries on X if you would like to try to guess the mystery.

Search X/Twitter for my Mystery Photo Game #memoryindustries

First Mystery:

How to upscale, resize, enhance, increase resolution in Photoshop 2023

 

Finally figured this out so sharing it here:

Open your image. The image I chose resolution of 72.

Change the resolution to whatever you like. Here I chose 300. Next to "Resample", from the drop down menu choose Preserve Details.

You can also choose Noise Reduction if you like. Here I chose 85.

This is the final product at 100% without "Preserve Details".

This is the final product at 100% with "Preserve Details".

UPDATE 2024: I see that Leonardo.ai and Canva both have an upscale feature

Image Archives Online

I hope all these images are in the public domain but inclusion here does not verify that. Please independently verify the licensing status and attribution information before reusing the content.

Openverse Search Engine

https://openverse.org/

Archive.org

4.7 million photos

 https://archive.org/

British Library

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary

The Conway Library

contains almost 1 million photographs of world architecture, architectural drawings, sculpture, decorative arts and manuscripts. 

https://photocollections.courtauld.ac.uk/menu-item1/conway-library

David Rumsey Map Collection

https://www.davidrumsey.com/

Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/search/?license=2%2C3%2C4%2C5%2C6%2C9

Graphics Fairy

https://thegraphicsfairy.com/

Library of Congress

holds more than 15 million items

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/

Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections

9,000 vintage images

https://www.flickr.com/people/31033598@N03/

Chicago's Newberry Library

Over one million digital items

https://digcoll.newberry.org/#/

New York Public Library Digital Collections

Explore 935,562 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

Old Book Illustrations

https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/

Rhode Island School of Design

https://library.risd.edu/

Smithsonian Open Access

https://www.si.edu/openaccess

USDA

https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/images/image-gallery/

Wikimedia Commons

a collection of 92,558,076 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikipedia:Public domain image resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources

Museum Collections

• Getty Open Content Program – 10,000 images from the Getty Museum Collection
• The Met Collection- The Metropolitan Museum of Art's online gallery includes public domain images of artwork. Choose "open access" search option.
• The Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) – American art catalog compiled by the Smithsonian Institution. It has many reproductions of American paintings. However, it is known to have a number of factual errors, so it should be used with great care.

Washington State

Evergreen

(Omeka S)

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture

https://www.northwestmuseum.org/collections/research-archives/

https://ferrisarchives.northwestmuseum.org/Collection/View/4  Palmer

University of Washington

https://content.lib.washington.edu/

https://content.lib.washington.edu/wastateweb/index.html

https://content.lib.washington.edu/childrensweb/index.html

(utilizes OCLC's CONTENTdm Software Suite, which was developed at the University of Washington by the Center for Information Systems Optimization)

Washington State Digital Archive

https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/

Washington State Historical Society

83,000 artifacts, 600,000 photographs, 65,000 pieces of ephemera, and over 8 million documents

https://www.washingtonhistory.org/research/image-services/

Asahel Curtis Collection

https://www.washingtonhistory.org/join-support/asahelcurtis/

Washington State University

https://content.libraries.wsu.edu/digital/custom/collections

(CONTENTdm)

Montana

Montana State Library

https://www.mtmemory.org/

F Jay Haynes

https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/112995

Idaho

Museum of North Idaho

https://museumni.org/

(Past Perfect?)

Idaho State Archives / Idaho State Historical Society

https://idahohistory.contentdm.oclc.org/

(OPENdm)

OF INTEREST TO GENEALOGISTS

https://www.familytreasuresfound.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1419339481432739/

https://deadfred.com/

https://www.facebook.com/deadfredphotos/

Native North American Indian - Old Photos

483K followers

Currently, there are 56,177 old photos in 294 albums, organized by Tribe or Nation. To view the albums, click on 'Photos' at the top of the page. Then click 'Albums.' Then scroll down to see the album of the Tribe you're looking for and click on the album name.

https://www.facebook.com/NNAIOP

The Photo Angel

https://www.facebook.com/groups/531012871224823

ART

Wikiart

https://www.wikiart.org/

.

Relevant Blogs:

Public Domain Review

https://publicdomainreview.org/

Open Culture

https://www.openculture.com/

Galleries

University of Arizona

https://cspace.arts.arizona.edu/search

Teddy Roosevelt Portrait on the Blue Blood's Frank Reagan Office Set

Where can I get a Teddy Roosevelt portrait just like the one on Blue Bloods?

I love set design. And vintage images. We do watch Blue Bloods (we are Tom Selleck fans) so, yes, I did notice that spectacular portrait of Teddy Roosevelt in Police Commissioner Frank Reagan's office.

So I found the actual print and here is how to get one of your own.

ROLL YOUR OWN:

You can purchase a print of this image HERE size 16 x 20, the closest size to the BB image. I went shopping for a frame. I hadn't ordered a frame online in years and, wow, it has not gotten any easier. I could not find a frame website I can recommend. I usually shop at Amazon for convenience so I went there next. Finding a frame and mat was not so easy. I couldn't find one exactly like BB but I did find this gold frame:

And I did find mat in two color choices. I think the BB portrait has a creme colored mat but you could also use white.

You may want to purchase the print and take it to your local framer.

If you find a better frame or mat at Amazon please let me know. And if you can recommend an online frame shop please tell us!

BUY READY-MADE:

For people who don't have time to roll their own head over to Imagekind where you can purchase the print already matted and framed. If you purchase from Imagekind, and if you have time, please let me know what your experience was like. Thanks! Catherine

Purchase a ready-made portrait at Imagekind

Augusta, South Carolina 120 Year Old Woman - eBay Photo

South Carolina 120 Year Old Woman - used with permission

This is a new mystery. An eBay photo shows an elderly woman and on the back is written "BREUER BLACK about 120 years old!" and"taken 13 Nov. 1920". The photograph was acquired in Augusta, South Carolina. 

Is Breuer Black the woman's name? Can you find any account in newspapers of a woman reaching 120 years in the year 1920? Can you find any help in Augusta, South Carolina to help identify this image?

If we do determine that her name was Breuer Black we will create a page for her at WeRelate. In the meantime you can discuss it here.

Original eBay listing. (Note: I always ask permission to use images and info from sites where I get contest ideas. This image was used with permission.)

This mystery is part of a contest to encourage people to learn to edit at WeRelate, a free genealogy website. Read more about the contest.

For the status of this contest and previous contests see Previous Winners.

Photoshelter's Lattice needs watermarks!

I can't use Photoshelter's new crowd-editing Pinterest alternative, Lattice, because I can't put my images on the Internet without a watermark and here is why:

I have an image of a nutrition label that is very popular. I know for a fact it has never sold with an extended license. It showed up in a magazine with a circulation of 1.5 million. My agency has a limit of 500,000 reproductions, after that you have to purchase an extended license. There isn't one on record. I contacted my agency - they said that because the image is available on my personal portfolio they will not contact the magazine and ask them for the extended license amount. So I am screwed on this one transaction.

I can't really afford to lose ANY sales. And I can't do anything that will make it harder for me to get compensated for future sales.

So I can't put my images on Lattice without a watermark.

Now I am really curious if anyone else feels the same way. So I started a poll.

Would you let me know how you feel about Lattice and watermarks?

Thanks,
Catherine dee Auvil

Who owns the Agnes Tazewell Tizah-nee (Bailey) Cline daguerreotype?

Who owns this daguerreotype of Agnes Tazewell Tizah-nee (Bailey) Cline and scanned it for the Internet? I'd like to ask them if we could use it for our *Nikitie group.

*Nikitie Group: We have a study group for all the people who are descended from the Longhunters who inter-married with the Shawnee, Cherokee, Powhatan and other tribes and lived in a place called Indian, Virginia from about 1700 to present day. If you are a descendant or you would like to study this group please join here: Nikitie Group

ΣCline | ΣTBC

Getty Images Now Free for Blogs and Social Media

Getty Images has just announced a legal, and free option to share Getty images on websites, blogs, and social media. That is pretty shocking. I'm just going to embrace it. Can't put toothpaste back in the tube. So here is a picture of a woman walking by grafitti on a wall on March 17, 2014 in Simferopol, Ukraine by Spencer Platt. I think this is going to be fun actually. And the image links back to Getty where you can license it. This is similar to how I feel about Pinterest - as long as a pin links back to the source where you can find out how to buy a print or purchase a digital download of a high res version - then I believe Pinterest is only good for photographers.

Photoshelter Help

I've been getting really serious about adding to my portfolio at Photoshelter. And I had to draw out what goes where when you add metadata like headline, title, description. I have a Beam website because I want my website to be smart phone compatible. I am pretty happy with it so far. I made a graphic and I am sharing it here. The more people who are successful at Photoshelter the better for me, I figure. Clicking the picture will bring up a larger, more readable size.

The one tip I want to pass on is that you should keep the file extension for the name of your image. I know, it doesn't look that great, but I found out the hard way that if you take it off, when the client downloads the image they will have to re-name it in order to see it and some clients will not know how to do this. Who has time for that?!

If you have any problems at Photoshelter, customer service is great. You may have the first reaction to post on the forums for help but they are not very active and you may feel frustrated with no responses. Just call customer service - they have always been great for me. I've been with Photoshelter since the beginning.

One last thing - If you sign up with Photoshelter would you consider using my referral link? Thank you! Catherine

Grand Central Station

New York, New...
Hal Morey
Buy This at Allposters.com
I've always liked this photograph of Grand Central Station with the sunbeams through the windows. I found out that it's hard to tell who the photographer was. One image has a stamp "Photograph by Hal Morey of the N.Y. Central R.R." but there is controversy whether that is accurate. Here's a good blog post about the subject. You can purchase a print from Allposters.com or from the New York Transit Museum.

rare signed cabinet card of Jesse James

This rare signed cabinet card of Jesse James recently sold at Leslie Hindman Auctions for $51,000.

more about this photographer

Spokane Indians at Cowan's Auctions

This image was auctioned at Cowan's, taken from the collection of Henry W. Andrews (unknown photographer).  Do you recognize this style or is the format similar to other photographers you know? Help me identify the photographer! (Image used with permission.)

Photo courtesy of Cowan's Auctions, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio.  www.cowans.com

CHIEF JOSEPH LARGE FORMAT PHOTOGRAPH

This image, an anonymous, albumen photograph of Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph, will be up for auction 6/23/2011 at Cowan's. (Image used with permission)

Read more about it here.

z wood door chewelah clay street

z wood door chewelah clay street, originally uploaded by deeAuvil.com.

This picture was taken in about 1978.

ΣAuvil 

1965c oscar oliver auvil 1895-1981 entiat washington usa collage flickr

1965c oscar oliver auvil 1895-1981 entiat washington usa collage flickr, originally uploaded by deeAuvil.com.

Oscar Oliver Auvil (1895-1981) and his wife Jeanette Rutherford Auvil (1899-1982) at their apple and pear orchard along the Entiat River. Entiat, Chelan County, Washington, USA Circa 1965

ΣAuvil | ΣRutherford