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19 February 2006

Brittingham Family Lantern Slide Collection --rich family, slides from trips and stuff bet. 1897-1922--some wonderful images--i want a room like this

post by: amberglow at: 17:56 | 23 comments

Cheney and his hunting party

posted by amberglow 19 February | 18:02

ooo

posted by amberglow 19 February | 18:09

Great find.

posted by arse_hat 19 February | 18:11

Awesome.

posted by amro 19 February | 18:55

i wonder why they blocked out Mary?

posted by amberglow 19 February | 20:46

and was it somehow connected to the Smiling Man?

posted by amberglow 19 February | 20:53

This stuff is incredible. We could have a captioning party.

posted by sophieblue 19 February | 21:05

ahahaha!

posted by amberglow 19 February | 21:09

we should, sophie--or caption contests. Start with the drag one : >

here's Mary--i wonder what she did?

posted by amberglow 19 February | 21:12

was she gay? marry the wrong person? get pregnant? run off with someone? agitate for the vote? smoke a cigarette in public???

posted by amberglow 19 February | 21:15

this one looks like a lynching party or something

and every pic i've seen so far of Margaret she's been dressed beautifully.

posted by amberglow 19 February | 21:20

Edwardian is a style of clothing I'd love to have come back in style.

posted by deborah 19 February | 21:22

she must have traveled with trunks and trunks of clothes

it really is beautiful, deborah, and very flattering--the long slim lines of it all.

posted by amberglow 19 February | 21:23

they were very advanced for that era, i think.

posted by amberglow 19 February | 21:25

there's something about playing with gender roles in old photos that's so cool. Someday i guess people will look at halloween photos and others from now the same way i guess.

posted by amberglow 19 February | 21:26

i can't get enough of these--check out how weird

posted by amberglow 19 February | 21:27

The Mary thing is bizarre, amberglow.

Thanks for these - incredible images. The travel section is amazing.

posted by taz 19 February | 21:27

Maybe Mary was having another bad hair day?

posted by taz 19 February | 21:34

oh, maybe they locked her away?

posted by amberglow 19 February | 22:13

Aw. (And... omg! Bunny!)

Where's her right hand?

Some of these links seem to be expiring or something, so I linked directly to the jpgs. For example, amberglow, I could see your "where's mary" link earlier, but now I can't. I get a message that says "Your session has either ended due to inactivity, or you haven't started one yet." Here's the wacky hair one I posted earlier.

posted by taz 19 February | 22:19

i wonder if they're all specific to the person who finds them or something--i got the same message too just now... sorry if people can't get to them....the general link should always work tho.

I'm thinking she was put away for some reason--sad.

posted by amberglow 19 February | 22:56

I could follow your links briefly, amberglow, but they kept timing out. What a tale. Your captions were the best. When I went through the collection I found a photo of Mary feeding a squirrel in the yard – I got a distinct sense that she had a more gentle way of dealing with the world than the rest of her family did. But I did love her sister’s costume dramas too. Thanks for posting this.

posted by sophieblue 20 February | 00:01

Making a web site with unlinkable pages = Huh? Wha? D'oh.

*spanks bad wisc.edu*

posted by taz 20 February | 02:44

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