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I’m not sure who this is. This is one of the negatives with no corresponding print, so no documentation, and I don’t see this gentleman in any other shots. It’s not Wesley Garner. He died on January 1, 1889, and these photos are from a good 10 years after that. Given that the photos were shot by Wesley’s daughter Eleanora, I’m going to guess that this is likely to be her husband Francis, who was 57 years old in 1900.

This dry plate negative is a size I’ve never seen: 4.25 inches by 4.25 inches. That obviously doesn’t fit into the modern large format system of 4x5, 5x7, 8x10, etc. but I also don’t see it in the older plate system, either. I see glass half plate listed as 6.5 x 4.25, and quarter plate as 4.25 x 3.25. But it must have been a thing. The negatives are stored in a box of paper that was 4.25 x 4.25, presumably for contact printing exactly this kind of negative.

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Tue Jan 29 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