Photos tagged with “dryplateportraits”

Harriet Murray Garner with her great-granddaughter, Helen Johnston. Helen looks to be maybe 8 or 9 years old here, and she was born in February, 1891, so this photo, scanned from a print, appears to be from about 1899 or 1900. More than one photo of Helen shows her with her face in a book. She must have been pretty smart. By 1925, she had her M.D. degree and was working as a physician in Des Moines. She died in Riverside, California, in June, 1969, and was buried back home in Columbus City, Iowa. I can’t find any record of her ever marrying.

This is one of several prints for which there is no negative.

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Mon Jan 28 2019

4 generations

Last month, I bought a collection of glass negatives and prints on one of the auction sites. It was billed as part of the archive of the Wesley Garner family of Columbus City, Iowa. One of Wesley’s daughters, Eleanora Garner Colton, was a photographer, and she shot a number of glass plates of her family. She appears to have developed and printed her own work. This 5x7 plate appears to have been shot around 1900. It includes Wesley’s widow, Harriet Murray Garner, their daughter Eleanora, Eleanora’s daughter Loui Colton Johnston, and Loui’s daughter Helen.

The 5x7 plates and prints of two of the plates, came in a box of M. A. Seed Extra Rapid Dry Plates.

From what I found on Ancestry.com, Harriet was born in 1818. She died in 1903.

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Sun Jan 27 2019