The Zoo, 1900

A warning-- for a post featuring a lot of cute and beautiful animals, this is very depressing. Zoos in 1900 didn't quite have the animal standard of living we're used to...

The Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, from glass plate negatives. 

From the collection of the Field Museum Library, Chicago. 

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A Proper Send-off

When a ship sets sail, it's important to say goodbye properly. And how do you do that? With streamers, of course!

Photographs from various collections (see source links), but especially the Australian Maritime Museum. 

George Jackman, State Library of Queensland

The Stratheden, Hamilton, Australia, 1930s-50s. Source

Sam Hood, Australian National Maritime Museum

The S. S. Ceramic, Sydney, c. 1925. Source

Sam Hood, Australian National Maritime Museum

The S. S. Ceramic, Sydney, c. 1925. Source

Henry Gawthorpe, Australian National Maritime Museum

The R.M.S. Caronia, Sydney, 1951. Source

Sam Hood, Australian National Maritime Museum

The S.S. Ormiston, Sydney, c. 1933. Source

Library of Congress

The George Washington, New York, 1911. Source

Sam Hood, Australian National Maritime Museum

The S. S. Ceramic, Sydney, c. 1925. Source

David Moore, Australian National Maritime Museum

The Orcades, Sydney, c. 1948. Source

National Maritime Museum (UK)

The Orcades, unknown port, c. 1962. Source

Sam Hood, Australian National Maritime Museum

A woman farewelling the S. S. Autolycus, Sydney, 1939. Source

Sam Hood, Australian National Maritime Museum

The S. S. Cathay II, Sydney, c. 1935 (note: this one is a digitally reversed negative, so flipped horizontally, in case any Australians are wondering about the geography! thanks to a commentor for pointing that out!). Source

Sam Hood, Australian National Maritime Museum

The S. S. Ceramic, Sydney, c. 1925. Source

David Moore, Australian National Maritime Museum

Well-wishers and streamers, Sydney, c. 1948. Source

J. E. Barnes, Australian National Maritime Museum

The troopship Barambah, Melbourne, c. 1916. Source

Sam Hood, Australian National Maritime Museum

The S. S. Montoro, Sydney, 20s-50s. Source

Sam Hood, Australian National Maritime Museum

The S. S. Autolycus, Sydney, 1939. Source

Sam Hood, Australian National Maritime Museum

Sailors aboard the S. S. Autolycus, 1939. Source

St. Andrews in the 1840s

A very long time ago I had a blog request for photos from Fife, Scotland-- I've lost the email so I don't recall the requester's name, but I haven't forgotten entirely! Hopefully the amazingness of these images will make up for my terrible delay. 

So, pictures of St. Andrews, Scotland, a town that is dear to my heart. Not only that, but pictures from the 1840s, essentially the first decade of photography. You may remember Hill and Adamson for their portraits of the 1840s; if not, have a look, they are amazing. 

Notes on the images: Hill and Adamson were using Talbot's calotype process, creating paper negatives (calotypes) and making prints from them (salt paper prints). I'd love to go into more detail about this but in the interests of actually getting a blog post done, I'll send the interested (somewhere). Some of these images are original salted paper prints; these have experienced noticeably more deterioration  with colour shift and fading and losing detail and other fun stuff that happens when photos deterioration. The others come from images of the negatives themselves, digitally transferred into positive images by the University of Glasgow Library (let us pause and thank them). Paper negatives are much more stable than salt prints, and much of the original detail and contrast is preserved. Originally, the salted paper prints would have looked like the digitally altered images. So, I thought I'd use both.

There are many more things to say, but enough with the text, let's look at the pictures!

From the special collections of the University of Glasgow. 

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St. Andrews Cathedral and St. Rule's Tower. From negative. Source

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The cathedral and tower, original salted paper print. Source

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South Street, from negative. Source

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St. Andrews Castle, salted paper print. Source

University of Glasgow

St. Andrews Castle. From negative. Source

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Men in the Pends. From negative. Source

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The Pends, salted paper print. Source

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St. Andrews Cathedral, from negative. Source

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The cathedral and graveyard, salted paper print. Source

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South Street, salted paper print. Source

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Blackfriar's Chapel, salted paper print. Source

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Castle, from negative. Source

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Castle from the sea at low tide, from negative. Source

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Same view, salted paper print. Source

University of Glasgow

Castle from the sea, from negative. Source

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St. Andrews Harbour, with cathedral in background, salted paper print. Source

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Cathedral, salted paper print. Source

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The abbey wall, salted paper print. Source

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St. Salvatore's Chapel, salted paper print. Source

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St. Andrews from the beach, from negative. Source

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And salted paper print. Source

University of Glasgow

St. Andrews Castle, from negative. Source