- @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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Heidelberg (right way around now too, thanks Ray and SPS).
Ghent looking East from Sint=Michielsburg (thanks SPS)
Detail
La Rochelle, France (thanks SPS!)
Méva, l'apôtre de la vie naturelle
Tamil lady in rickshaw, Colombo
Femme du Thaï-Binh
A Day at the Beach
What factory is this. Pontypool, South Wales?
Where is this War Hospital? Hamilton
Where is this snowy town?
Zoo Humain Jardin d'Acclimatation Paris 1903
Ship camouflage, possibly the USS Salem (CL-3)?
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United States lightship Swiftsure (LV-83)?
United States lightship Swiftsure (LV-83)?
Tintype portrait of a man (4" x 5.5")
Vintage bad trigger discipline
Studio portrait of a man in dress uniform and Stetson
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