PHSC Photographic Historical Society of Canada

"Mabel Remington Colhoun photo collection goes online..." "On an outside wall of Londonderry's Tower Museum hangs a blue plaque in honour of Mabel Remington Colhoun. It remembers the many and varied achievements of an archaeologist, teacher and historian to life in the north west.... But, throughout a life less ordinary, she was also a prolific photographer. Now a collection of her previously unseen photos has been digitised and made available online for the first time..." https://www.bbc.com//uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-548957

Photos by PHSC's Louie Palu featured in "The Guardian": "The UK, the United States and Canada have been among the countries ramping up their Arctic military exercises, and for the past five years, photographer and film-maker Louie Palu has been taking pictures of soldiers confronting an environment as hostile and deadly as any enemy force. He has photographed a parachute drop into mountainous terrain in Alaska, through-the-ice training in a lake in the Northwest Territories, a submarine coming up from under the ice in the Beaufort Sea and igloo-building and radar operations in Nunavut. He saw soldiers suffer frostbite and, during exercises in Finland, even be killed in a vehicle accident, he said..." https://www.theguardian.com//arctic-ice-retreats-climate-u

Very sad news to see that Nantes Cathedral in France is currently on fire. https://www.theguardian.com//french-firefighters-tackle-bl =====... Frederick H. Evans In Nantes Cathedral 1890s (ca) Platinum print Private collection of Peter Spangenberg LL/43462

Organist, likely Joe Blackburn, resident organist at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, N.Y. plays the museum's Aeolian Pipe Organ: https://www.eastman.org/aeolian-pipe-organ Photo taken 5 July 2014, by Louise Freyburger, using her Olympus 3L PEN! Camera would have been cheaper if I had just waited 4 years for the December 2, 2018 PHSC Estate Auction!

In case you ever wondered about "historic clouds" --i.e., those lucious clouds in old photographs.... Thanks to Mark Osterman and Nick Bandredth for having photographed and shared this demonstration story...

About using film spools in Brownie 616's...

Shared from Jerilyn Marshall, thank you...

Thanking Dawn Shipley Hill, who shared this post on the "Everything Victorian & Edwardian (From the Storybook of Dreams & Beauty" FB page....

Amon Carter Museum Presents Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography by Christopher Blay July 1, 2020 There are four sections to Acting Out: Caught in the Act, The Trade, Sharing Life: Family and Friends, and Acting Out, providing a chronology of the cabinet card through its introduction and evolution.... Acting Out will be on view August 18 through November 1, 2020. Amon Carter members can preview the exhibition from August 14 through 16. The exhibition will travel to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. https://glasstire.com//amon-carter-museum-presents-actin/

Olympus gone...

Happy Summer Solstice!

Uncle Albert's manual of practical photography : and guide to the reproductive processes, by Powell Perry (Author) ...1890." THIS IS A PERRY COLOUR BOOK"

We don't know what to say, and words may not be enough right now, but we will not stay silent. We acknowledge that we need to show more diversity within the photographic history of this country. This is the time to learn, build empathy, and understanding. Black Lives Matter!

Thanks to the BLOG HISTORYAC:UK

We don't know what to say, and words may not be enough right now, but we will not stay silent. We acknowledge that we need to show more diversity within the photographic history of this country. This is the time to learn, build empathy, and understanding. Black Lives Matter!

Thanks to "Vintage Toronto" group...

"With a Camera and Canoe: Early Photographer Captures 19th-Century Life,"Cassidy Chisholm, CBC News - Posted Sep 29, 1019 Some of the earliest photographs of New Brunswick life in the mid-19th century are now on display at the New Brunswick Provincial Archives. The exhibit, titled Glass Plate Alchemist, features nearly 900 glass negatives created by George Taylor, a Fredericton-based photographer in the 1860s. Some of the featured photos were taken while Taylor was on expe...dition around the province. "He was the first photographer in the Maritimes and one of the earliest photographers in Canada to go into the bush," said Ronald Rees, one of the authors of Slow Seconds: The Photography of George Thomas Taylor. Note that this exhibit [ran] until Oct. 4,2019 at the New Brunswick Provincial Archives. https://www.cbc.ca//camera-canoe-photographer-new-brunswic