- @JayneShrimpton another image that is totally out of character for me then!
in reply to JayneShrimpton # - $23,000 Civil War tintype returning to Goodwill – suggestion it's simply a copy of carte de visite http://t.co/FaNdNfqe #
- Rare California inmate mug shot book brings $2,150 http://t.co/l9XQUFEL #
- Spotted on #Flickr A. Mattas, Příbram – A Geisha From Bohemia: josefnovak33 posted a photo:
- Spotted on #Flickr In her Sunday best—late 1850s ambrotype of a woman with gold jewelry: gormer posted a photo:… http://t.co/SwLQReoH #
- Spotted on #Flickr Visiting a sick friend: paws22 posted a photo:
- Nice details showing ad hoc Victorian photo studio set-up in this wet plate collodion negative" http://t.co/h95ODdLg #
- @JayneShrimpton you flatter me! More like http://t.co/2Tbqk3WP! I'd love to use http://t.co/bZoEu2Hb but a little misleading?! in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- A fine moustache for #Movember "Colonel Edward Frank Harrison, WW1 chemist and inventor of gas mask" http://t.co/xL8Qjouv #
- @JayneShrimpton the Claudet daguerreotype it will be then, after Remembrance Sunday in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- New on Flickr: Protective tissue paper cover from Carte de Visite by Witcomb & son, Bournemouth and Salisbury: w… http://t.co/E7rUBqIW #
- New on Flickr: Carte de Visite of unknown young lady, possibly nanny or nursery maid: whatsthatpicture posted a … http://t.co/sLDOkZtP #
- New on Flickr: Reverse of Carte de Visite by Witcomb & son, Bournemouth and Salisbury: whatsthatpicture posted a… http://t.co/TwZTIz2i #
- @JayneShrimpton here's that nanny / nursery maid image from eBay we were discussing. It's a CdV not Cabinet http://t.co/fu2JXao2 #
- @JayneShrimpton oh, you'd already spotted it! in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- Having huge fun digitally enhancing a small, damaged, mystery Chinese(?) image I bought on eBay – pics to follow! #
- Crikey, I just passed 800 followers. How did that happen?! Do people really like this stuff? #
- @jamesdhobsonuk I'm a sucker for buying orphaned but named early images – http://t.co/ixptpj9U in reply to jamesdhobsonuk #
- @_YourStoryCoach thank you! in reply to _YourStoryCoach #
- @JayneShrimpton thanks Jayne, it's certainly a nice distinctive image. http://t.co/fu2JXao2 in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- @JayneShrimpton and what I meant to of course say is thanks again for sharing your expertise and opinion, duly credited http://t.co/fu2JXao2 in reply to JayneShrimpton #
- Any Chinese speakers out there to help transcribe street signs and date/locate this wonderful mystery street scene? http://t.co/yVW0lI2T #
- @ShirMcCullagh thanks for passing this on. @lonniehodge the mystery image, presumed to be Chinese, is at http://t.co/yVW0lI2T in reply to ShirMcCullagh #
- Spotted on #Flickr Mrs Tom Tucker, Scotland Farm: tchibnot@btinternet.com posted a photo:
a photo taken by … http://t.co/YeU4DIrl #
- @TheLusitaniaRes thanks. I contemplated putting higher res on Flickr but to be honest original is small and they weren't going to be better in reply to TheLusitaniaRes #
- @TheLusitaniaRes out of interest, what leads you to Shanxi Province? If there are any parts you'd like to clearer, I'll try to improve image #
- @TheLusitaniaRes Superb, thanks for your transcriptions. I shall add them as notes on image, suitably credited (any preference how?) in reply to TheLusitaniaRes #
- New on Flickr: Mystery Chinese street scene – simple enhancement: whatsthatpicture posted a photo:
In this v… http://t.co/oLc7m9ko #
- New on Flickr: Mystery Chinese street scene – detailed crop and further enhancement: whatsthatpicture posted a p… http://t.co/AnLQnoQT #
- New on Flickr: Mystery Chinese street scene – enhanced version: whatsthatpicture posted a photo:
Some furthe… http://t.co/RDO8Suxl #
- Huge thanks to @TheLusitaniaRes for translating the signs in my mystery Chinese street scene – http://t.co/yVW0lI2T #
- Stunning image RT @scribas Vintage Images: USS Akron airship over Manhattan, early 1930s | Scribas http://t.co/U2ZHSi1a #
- @AncestryUK: timely post on WW1 nurses as I am just researching a nurse's postcard album I found at auction – http://t.co/H4rFd0Bl in reply to AncestryUK #
- Very very nice MT @FiveFeetView: Photo: Young Girl, c. 1855 Ambrotype http://t.co/MNR69XIj (original @smithsonian ) #
- Unsung heros – World War 1 nurses http://t.co/0O08O7uV #
- The Royal Aero Club needs your help! Help find the missing heroes of World War I http://t.co/F4c9yz90 cc @sallyhinch #
- Just been revisiting my friend's (@sallyhinch) album of her grandfather's WW1 aviation images. Truly amazing! http://t.co/h7ED70nL #
- @MandMXRss thanks for tweeting the mystery Chines image http://t.co/yVW0lI2T in reply to MandMXRss #
- New on Flickr: Unsung heros – World War 1 nurses: whatsthatpicture posted a photo:
On Remembrance Sunday it … http://t.co/zUaLpJsd #
- @margotnote glad you made it to @V_and_A. Guess they can't have lots of one thing & cased images are hard to display, with less wow factor! in reply to margotnote #
- For once I get to share a picture of one of my own ancestors – Cpl Thomas Morley, 34th Battalion Machine Gun Corps http://t.co/UMx2k426 #
- New on Flickr: Cpl Thomas Morley, 34th Battalion Machine Gun Corps: whatsthatpicture posted a photo:
Thomas … http://t.co/RHoO0W9D #
- @AncestryUK sorry, there should have been a link – http://t.co/aJLXIv1B – I also intend to write up the full story on my website soon in reply to AncestryUK #
- @lonniehodge just to say, the signs in the Chinese street scene have been translated, thanks to @TheLusitaniaRes http://t.co/yVW0lI2T #
- @lonniehodge Thanks. There's a suggestion it may be Shanxi Province – any thoughts, or know anyone who might know? http://t.co/yVW0lI2T in reply to lonniehodge #
- This is wonderful RT @postalheritage: BBC News – GPO film of 1938 Norfolk floods inspires new book http://t.co/kJgbj851 #
- Turnip or swede, you decide! via @NLIreland http://t.co/ARBDDhbo #
- I read this as 'pedant magnifier' – ideal for fussy editors with poor eyesight! MT @FamilyTreeFolk: Pendant magnifier – http://t.co/iOvTu9fD #
- @FamilyTreeFolk They wanted me to do photo dating again but am having an op and will be laid low until Christm… (cont) http://t.co/hNXkx7je in reply to FamilyTreeFolk #
- @FamilyTreeFolk the irony was not lost on me, as a pedant editor myself. But I don't usually invent errors that aren't there!!! in reply to FamilyTreeFolk #
- 10p to charity for each view of this wonderful 1907 men & moustaches image – the ultimate #Movember image? http://t.co/X3A04TTS PLEASE RT #
- @MovemberUK: am donating 5p to you each time this 1907 men & moustaches image is viewed – the ultimate #Movember pic? http://t.co/X3A04TTS #
- Come on folks, pls retweet: 10p to charity for each view of this wonderful 1907 men & moustaches pic: http://t.co/X3A04TTS #Movember #
- New on Flickr: Wonderful 1907 moustaches – the ultimate Movember image? (10p donated to charity for every view):… http://t.co/5fpR0qVI #
- pls RT: 10p to charity for each view of this wonderful 1907 men & moustaches image – the ultimate #Movember image? http://t.co/X3A04TTS #
- @mardixon 10p to charity for each view of this wonderful 1907 men & moustaches pic: http://t.co/X3A04TTS #Movember #
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