The following is part of a collection of albumens I have been maintaining. I will be putting them out on the net because I feel they are important historic documents and I hope folks will get some entertainment or insight into other times, ways of living, and places. As you can see, I started scanning the set in greyscale and decided to switch to color. Fundamentally, an albumen is a monochromatic picture, but when you see them in person, they are brownish due to their chemical composition. So, even though it uses up 3 times as much disk space to show them in brown (color RBG) as opposed to grey scale, I thought it added something to their appearance. :)For those that are wondering, here is a definition from the British Library:
Albumen = invented by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Évrard in 1850; an improvement on the salted paper print, used between 1848 and the late 1870s. Plain paper was coated with a layer of egg-white containing salt and sensitised with silver nitrate before exposure. This type of photograph was susceptible to the deleterious effects of light and oxygen - many of these photographs show signs of fading and yellowing with loss of density and contrast.So, I am scanning them before they go away! You should be able to right-click and save any of the images. You may use them for any non-commercial purposes. If you need a higher res scan let me know. Enjoy - GR
BTW, there is handwriting on the back side of many of the photos. I will transcribe literally what is written there. The phrasing is the authors, and is not necessarily the way I would put it today.
Back says in hand: "A Strassburg woman: seen on every street" |
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Back says in hand: "One of the peasants of Srerina's (sp?) neighborhood - one sees many in the streets!" |
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Back has a stamp from Hertel. |
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Back has in hand "+ Gur Villa". If you know what that means, email me. |
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(According to Bluffton) Begun between 1297-1305 and completed c. 1326 the Palazzo Pubblico, complete with chapel and meeting rooms, once housed the Podestà and the Council; today it is a kind of town hall. Made of red brick (typical of Siena) with a travertine base, it presents the image of a fortress. |
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"The interior of San Petronio's church. Bologna." |
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"North East view. Salisbury" |
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