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Parenting & Family > Old Photo Work ...
 

Old Photo Work ...

I have been scanning old family photos from various sources and relatives, doing my best to clarify some pretty beat-up ones and making archival prints for distribution to those in our family who care about them and the family history.

This photo: I scanned an actual "tintype" photo. It is a type of photo positive that was printed from a negative onto a tin sheet which had been surfaced with photo emulsion. This one required some Photoshop work to bring out the middle shades and highlights. I am astounded at the quality of the original, though.

The subjects are my great grandfather and great grandmother on my mother's side, Dr. Charles Mahlon Comer and his wife Sarah Jerusha Comer. He was a country doctor, educated at Ohio State. I believe the photo was taken sometime around 1876 to 1880.

posted on June 5, 2011 3:37 PM ()

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I think my sis has our old family photos. I'll have to ask her what became of them. I think she threw out the ones from Greece because, as I remember, she had very little awareness of family history. She destroyed an antique table we grew up with by cutting short the legs to make it a "coffee table". Of course it looked funny after that and she is not using it at all.
comment by tealstar on June 8, 2011 5:30 PM ()
Great photo and such good reproduction. I'm sure your family members will be thrilled to have a copy of this.
comment by redimpala on June 6, 2011 6:55 AM ()
What treasures they are for your family, Jon!
comment by marta on June 5, 2011 7:23 PM ()
comment by kristilyn3 on June 5, 2011 7:18 PM ()
In case... I am going to do this a second time with the resolution size changed.
comment by jondude on June 5, 2011 4:07 PM ()
Oh!I did not get the picture.Will checked this again.Do want to see this.
comment by fredo on June 5, 2011 3:57 PM ()
My goodness, she is strikingly beautiful, particularly when you figure back then there was no help from makeup. I've got an ancestral tin type or two, but the quality is so low they are like holograms. You've inspired me to try scanning them to see what comes out.
comment by troutbend on June 5, 2011 3:45 PM ()

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