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nd. Good. Three 21 x 26 cm b&w photos identified as Glen Gray on drum. Drum player identified on rear as Jackie Metts. Other photos feature unidentified piano and base players. Glenn Gray Knoblauch, known professionally as Glen Gray, was an American jazz saxophonist and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra. Photos do not seem to be of Gray himself, who usually wore a moustache.
Outdoor ambrotype of a family group with three generations of women (and a pet pony). U.S.A., 1856-57. by Photographer unknown
by Photographer unknown
Outdoor ambrotype of a family group with three generations of women (and a pet pony). U.S.A., 1856-57.
by Photographer unknown
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Sixth-plate ambrotype (wet collodion positive), 70 x 80 mm (sight); housed in an oval brass mat under cover glass, in an A. P. Critchlow thermoplastic Union case, 82 x 94 mm, with Mother Embracing Child 2 design (Berg 1-14); the ambrotype and case are in superb condition. A beautifully composed outdoor portrait of three generations of females in the same family. Notice the girl at far right, who tried to hold still the head of her pony - but did not entirely succeed! The ambrotype - from the Greek ambrotos, ""immortal"" - is created using the wet plate collodion process developed by the English inventor Frederick Scott Archer, which came into vogue in Europe and North America from around 1854 as a cheaper alternative to the daguerreotype. A glass plate covered with a thin layer of collodion, then dipped in a silver nitrate solution, is exposed to the subject while still wet, then developed and fixed. When the reverse of this negative image is coated with a dark emulsion such as varnish or paint, the resulting image appears as a positive. The process requires the expertise and experience of a professional photographer. Every ambrotype is a unique image that can only be duplicated by copying with another camera.
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