Glass Negatives from Early 1890's to Late 1900's

joeseph wrote in post #19336457
my Dad tells me that school photos used to be done on a camera that "scanned" left to right - the blokes on the end would often run around the back & appear at both ends of the photo.

Those cameras were called cirkut cameras and there are still people shooting them today. They had a geared base that scanned a scene at the same speed onto large format roll film. Film width ranges from 5 to 16 inches. There is an excellent book of cirkut camera images called America By the Yard

Cuypers1807 wrote in post #19336665

joeseph wrote in post #19336457
my Dad tells me that school photos used to be done on a camera that "scanned" left to right - the blokes on the end would often run around the back & appear at both ends of the photo.

Those cameras were called cirkut cameras and there are still people shooting them today. They had a geared base that scanned a scene at the same speed onto large format roll film. Film width ranges from 5 to 16 inches. There is an excellent book of cirkut camera images called America By the Yard

Very interesting! Thank you for telling us this information! Do you own this book?

Back to more Glass Negatives....

The next few photos were taken in my wife's and Albert's home town of Albion, Indiana.

This home belonged to my wife's grandparents on her father's side Harry and Bertha Black; Albert was a brother to Harry
Albert lived next door to his brother with an alley between them.
I LOVE the WOODEN sidewalk across the street from the house!!
This house is on Main St. (also St. Rd 8) of Albion.

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What a step back in time Charles.

I gather you've been to those places from your comments.
Do the houses still look same? Kept their facades?

Google Street view would be interesting if nothing else

avondale87 wrote in post #19336931
What a step back in time Charles.

I gather you've been to those places from your comments.
Do the houses still look same? Kept their facades?

Google Street view would be interesting if nothing else

Albion is 40 miles south of where we live, so yes I have been there many many times after marrying my wife Judy.

Speaking of Google Street view I had the same idea and just got done finding the same house!

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It would be cool and interesting to take the same images now, framed the same as closely as you can match the old images, and show the "then" and "now" images.

Or you could try something like this:
https://mymodernmet.co​m/nick-sullivan-double-take/

Or this:
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More information here:
https://www.fourmilab.​ch …s_then_and_now/​craft.html

Surprised there hasn't been a lot of change done to the house, at least on the outside.
Glad to see that.

Yeh, this is cool stuff.

Always cool when you can compare the old with the new..

Awesome images & history. Thanks for sharing.

Wow Charles! What a wonderful thread with great imagery, information and history. What a treasure to have the camera and the images/negatives along with the personal connection to that history! This is one of the best threads I've had the pleasure of following in quite a while. Thanks for sharing it all!

Loving this thread!

Capn Jack wrote in post #19336942
It would be cool and interesting to take the same images now, framed the same as closely as you can match the old images, and show the "then" and "now" images.

I have done that on a few images coming up!

Inspeqtor wrote in post #19336932
Albion is 40 miles south of where we live, so yes I have been there many many times after marrying my wife Judy.

Speaking of Google Street view I had the same idea and just got done finding the same house!

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2mZs​66L Harry and Bertha's house by inspeqtor, on Flickr

Is that the same tree out front as a tiny one pictured a bazillion years ago?

This child wrote in post #19336943
Surprised there hasn't been a lot of change done to the house, at least on the outside.
Glad to see that.

You are very welcome!