Old West Photograph Archives....Please Post Your Photos Here!!!!

[Dr. Bob]

Yup!     

[caps]

So I guess this means anyone who wants to bring a dead bear to a match can now document it as being period correct?


<grin>

My preference would be a dead one instead of a live one!

['Monterrey' Jack Brass]

Here is a one-of-a-kind photograph of a Texan from Beaumont in a sack suit, no guns but as you can see the guy could kill a man with his bare hands just by the looks of him. The cut of the suit and the style of hat are definitely 1860s-70s. Other than that it's just another typical ferrotype.




Okay, I've had my bit of fun and I hope you guys get a chuckle out of it: The guy in the ferrotype is my girlfriend's brother and I made the photograph yesterday. He is, however, from Beaumont, Texas though he grew up in a metro Detroit suburb and borrowed one of my sack suits for the picture. It was a hot day yesterday but he stood well for a six second exposure. It's not the best made photograph - I didn't keep it in the silver bath long enough and my developer needed diluting. Will be better next time.

Have a good one all,

Brass

[kflach]

We're talking about dead bears so you post a picture of your girlfriend's brother?


Hmmmmmmmmm.

<grin>

['Monterrey' Jack Brass]

Hello again good Kflach, I saw the title of this thread was "Old West Photograph Archives....Please Post Your Photos Here!!!!" so I thought I'd have some repro-tintype fun and such by posting the picture. I didn't read the previous several posts, perhaps got off topic from intent of SS's thread? If so then my having a bit of fun with posting a newly made tintype has been missed. I'll go back and read and get caught up in where this thread is now going.

Brass

[Shotgun Steve]

'Monterrey' Jack Brass....this is a post whatever picture you want to post archive.....  Nice tintype...

Shotgun

['Monterrey' Jack Brass]

Kflach - Here is a photograph I made last week of one of my shooting pards wearing some of my buffalo hunter stuff. He kinda looks like a bear in it, or if not then he certainly looks like he could whack a bear armed with my trusty .50-70 Springfield.


SS – Hope you don't mind my having a little fun with your thread. Of course none of the tintypes I'm posting are vintage from the era. Just me goofing off with my wetplate set-up. It is a hoot, for sure and sometimes the photographs even come out okay.

Gotta love this stuff.

Brass

[Blair]

All,

Still, these are all great images!
But, I would like to know how images, of any kind, can be posted on this forum?
Any help/information would be very helpful,
Thanks,

[kflach]

Monterrey Jack, I'm just giving you a hard time. We're the ones who got off-topic kinda.

Blair, When you hit the Reply button you're given a reply screen that includes a box to type in. Below that box are the words "Additional Options..." with a triangle beside it. Click the triangle and additional options - including "Attach" (with a "Choose File" button next to it) appear. Use the Choose File button to attach images to your replies.

[Blair]

kflack,

Thank you so much for the information.
I can see how this works now.
Problem is, the photo files I tried, are too large to be accepted.
This was color prints of the labels, "actual size", for the reporoduction cartridge boxes that were posted in another thread.

[kflach]

You might have to change the format or compression settings. For example if they are full sized, print quality .tif or .psd files they won't have any compression on them. Converting them to .jpg might do the trick. If they are currently at 300 dpi, changing them to something lower may do the trick and still give reasonable results when printed out.

[River City John]

Blair,
you can also open a free account with photobucket.com and upload pics to it. Click on the img html at the bottom of each image and it will automatically copy, then paste in a reply thread in here as you wish.

RCJ

[Books OToole]

I'll try again:

[Stillwater]

I'll try again:

You are going to have to tell that guy he is out of uniform. He has a belt on, and isn't wearing suspenders... The thread counters won't like  it...

Bill

[Dr. Bob]

It's a cartridge belt and is very PC!!  Belt loops aren't correct.

[Delmonico]

You are going to have to tell that guy he is out of uniform. He has a belt on, and isn't wearing suspenders... The thread counters won't like  it...

Bill

Also don't see no date on it, do you ever bother to do any research or do you just whine most the time because of a lack of knowledge.   You know that can be cured with a little effort on your part.

[Books OToole]

I don't have any information about the picture; I was just thrilled that I could actually post a picture for the first time.  It is obviously a late 19th or early 20th century image and the guy has a '66 Winchester.

Books

[Shotgun Steve]

Books are you guys saying that I am still posting too many pictures??? I am not sure what was meant by your last post??

Steve

['Monterrey' Jack Brass]

Books - That's an interesting carte-de-visite. I like the cartridge belt especially, appears to be just a plain narrow belt with loops sewn on it - perhaps a home-made job or locally manufactured like some early thimble belts (i.e. the infamous 'fair weather Christian' belts) I've read so much about. This photo might even be 1870s but without a date written on it it's hard to tell for sure. Also is hard to pick out any dead give-aways on the clothing and footwear to pin down an exact decade.

For what it's worth it looks pretty clear that your carte-de-visite photograph is a paper print made from a glass negative and then glued to card stock. It appears like at the top of the photo there is a thin line – if so, and if it is gold tone in color, that is a sign for an early carte-de-visit and the line wasn't just for decoration but locating the photograph on the cardstock while gluing it as well. One-piece cardboard cart-de-visites didn't come along until later in the 19th century though of course my references aren't handy so take it with a grain of salt as I cannot quote chapter & verse. All of this leads me to believe that your photograph could be earlier than the latter 19th century/early 20th century based on the carte-de-visite's construction. However, I'm sure the earlier manufacturing process ran parallel to more innovative versions that followed. So as is common, it's hard to prove conclusively when it was made.

SS - I think Books is just basking in the victory of having uploaded a photo to the forum. Had somebody not walked me through it a couple of times, the non-tech savvy cave man that I am, I doubt I could have figured it out at all. So good show to Book's success!

Brass

[Delmonico]

I got it the same a MJB did, I've never know Books to beat around the bush, I think if he meant it any other way he would have said it that way.