Photo of a Historical letter

I have had the opportunity to take my photography to a new level.
Somewhat humbled to show it.
It was 2 negative glass plates taken in daylight (piece of white paper behind it), with my Canon 500D with 70-200mm IS II L.

My 3rd Great Grandfather (who also was a photographer), originally took this photo of the original letter and can only guess it was taken between 1880's to 1920.
It was in his wife's collection, as she was Sir Edward Newenham's (Irish MP) Great Grand Daughter.

It is a letter of George Washington and he is addressing it to Sir Edward (my 6th Great Grandfather).

Original details here : http://flic.kr/p/eN8iM​V

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WOW!!! That's great.

Spanrz wrote in post #16093023
It was 2 negative glass plates taken in daylight (piece of white paper behind it), with my Canon 500D with 70-200mm IS II L.

It turned out good. Any special technique you used?

Cool, but why is it in the "People" section? The image turned out great!

Thanks. Good Question P.Hughes, as I didn't know where it belonged. It is I suppose B&W, but wasn't sure if it truly belongs in that catergory??
Can I get the mods to move it?

I taped a white bit of paper on a window that had full sun. I had my wife hold the glass plates up to the white bit of paper (into the sunlight) and it provided a magic constant light.
I'll post pics of the glass plates themselves?

Spanrz wrote in post #16095888
Thanks. Good Question P.Hughes, as I didn't know where it belonged. It is I suppose B&W, but wasn't sure if it truly belongs in that catergory??
Can I get the mods to move it?

I taped a white bit of paper on a window that had full sun. I had my wife hold the glass plates up to the white bit of paper (into the sunlight) and it provided a magic constant light.
I'll post pics of the glass plates themselves?

The letter is about people, right?

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #16096357
The letter is about people, right?

awesome!

I love history!

do a lot of long exposure shots, bought 70-200/4 IS-----and never had any severe or serious other counties

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #16096357
The letter is about people, right?

Exactly. It is a really interesting document.

Spanrz wrote in post #16095888
Thanks. Good Question P.Hughes, as I didn't know where it belonged. It is I suppose B&W, but wasn't sure if it truly belongs in that catergory??
Can I get the mods to move it?

I taped a white bit of paper on a window that had full sun. I had my wife hold the glass plates up to the white bit of paper (into the sunlight) and it provided a magic constant light.
I'll post pics of the glass plates themselves?

Good technique. It looks as if the people criteria has been asked and answered.

This letter, is the only one I know of in Australia. However, there is about 80 odd letters between the both of them. Though, a photo exists on the US Library of Congress website, with a "Copy" of the actual letter. It's written by a different person and I would say it was dictated to (?), as it's the same words, just the formats and handwriting is different.

I used a bit of LR, to bring the words out and placed an "antiquial" feeling to it, hopefully I got the " degraded paper colour" right
I'm pretty stoked with the result, but this (Canon) forum helped immensely with the concept of this.

This fellow and another few distant "Grandfather's", wrote to George Washington, Ben Franklin etc. But I don't have any actual copies of those.
I do have correspondence, from online resources, that show that the son of Sir Edward and Sir Edward and his wife, tested the US constitution to it's fullest degree in 1787. The son was going to work as a US consul officer under Ben Franklin in France (Marseilles). After many letters involving, G.Washington, B.Franklin, J.Jay and the US Congress, the application was turned down, simply because the son wasn't a "citizen" of the US.
That's how strong the Constitution was back then.

excellant!

Great piece of history you have there!

Interesting work!