Forgotten Lives Behind the Photographs and Artifacts
Adorable Moppets
The first of a occasional series.
Tartan and Striped Socks
Tintype, circa 1880. Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection. His hard-soled, lace-up boots are pretty darned adorbs, too.
Big Brother, Little Sister
1/6th-plate daguerreotype, circa 1849. Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection. The image is shown here in its open case. Nearly all of the earliest forms of photography were presented in wooden cases.
Worried Will
British 1/9th-plate relievo ambrotype, circa 1858. Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection. In this version of an ambrotype, created in 1854 by a Scottish photographer named Urie, the background surrounding the sitter is scraped away and replaced with one of a number of options, including a solid color, a vignette mat, or a false background. When I purchased this ambrotype there was nothing behind the boy’s image, so I had to create a backdrop.
Daddy’s Darling
1/9th-plate daguerreotype, circa 1850. Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection. This beautiful little girl, who is literally falling out of her dress, wears a coral necklace (thought to protect children from diseases) but the object in her hand remains a mystery.
She looks like the entire household revolves around her! I just adore her. She was in another friend of mine’s collection and when he decided to sell her, there was no choice except to make her my own.
"Your Dying Charlotte" 
I love Daddy’s Darling. She looks like a wise, old soul.
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She looks like the entire household revolves around her! I just adore her. She was in another friend of mine’s collection and when he decided to sell her, there was no choice except to make her my own.
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