Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Jan 2, 2021

Amtrak's Dark Secret

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Here's something you may not know, Amtrak's Northeast Corridor is, occasionally, illuminated. The occasion being overnight Mainten...
May 7, 2013

Budget Cuts Hobble Library of Congress

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  (NYTimes) ... Just as military contractors, air traffic controllers and federal workers are coping with the grim results of a partisa...
Mar 13, 2013

Titian Peale

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(Wikipedia) - Titian Ramsay Peale (November 2, 1799 – March 13, 1885) was a noted American artist, naturalist, entomologist and photograph...
Feb 11, 2013

William Fox Talbot

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(Wikipedia) William Henry Fox Talbot was a British inventor and a pioneer of photography, born on February 11, 1800 and died on September ...
Feb 6, 2013

Rare 1865 Baseball Card to Be Auctioned in Maine

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  BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) Six-figure bids are expected when a rare 148-year-old baseball card discovered at a rural Maine yard sale is au...
Jan 15, 2013

Mathew Brady

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  (Wikipedia) Mathew B. Brady (1822 – January 15, 1896) was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known fo...
Sep 26, 2012

Lewis Hine

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(Wikipedia) Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. Hine used his camera...
Sep 25, 2012

The Dead of Antietam

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(NYTimes) On Sept. 19, 1862, just two days after the Battle of Antietam, Alexander Gardner, an employee of the photographer Mathew Brad...
Jul 16, 2012

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

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(LoC) On July 16, 1936, photographer Walker Evans (1903-75) took a leave of absence from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) to accept...
Jun 6, 2012

Historic Photo Archive Re-Emerges

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(NYTimes) Roy Stryker, founder of the Farm Security Administration’s photography project, was determined to compile a visual encyclope...
Apr 24, 2012

Books for Congress

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(LoC) Today, the Library of Congress celebrates its birthday. On April 24, 1800, President John Adams approved the appropriation of $5,000 f...
Mar 10, 2012

Man in Civil War photo, long unidentified, finally gets his name back

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(Washington Post) The old photograph shows a young Confederate soldier posing proudly in an elegant uniform, with a pistol in his belt and a...
Mar 3, 2012

Local Photographer Who Captured 'John-John' Dies

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(WBAL) Some people may not know Stan Stearns by name, but many know his most famous photo. Stearns died this week at the age of 76. ... Stea...
Feb 23, 2012

Maryland Historical Society wants to identify subjects of Civil Rights era photos

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(Baltimore Sun) Images of nearly 6,000 Baltimoreans are the life's work of a photographer who documented racial segregation and early ci...
Feb 22, 2012

Eller Captures Re-enactments for Re-posterity

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Local photographer Joshua Eller has been busy documenting the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. Will he be this go-round's J...
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Feb 8, 2012

History Research: It’s a New Ball Game as Free Websites Provide Digital Copies of Wills, Maps, Newspapers, and Photos

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(WoCCP) In this rapidly expanding world of online information, lots of helpful data is often just a few keystrokes away. The amount is explo...
Nov 29, 2011

'Dickensian Baltimore' recalls era of commerce, and poverty

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(Towson Times) Long before Towson resident John McGrain became the historian for Baltimore County, he began taking photographs of Baltimore ...
Oct 9, 2011

Maryland Historical Society acquires rare photos

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(stardem.com) Recently the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS) acquired at auction an extremely rare daguerreotype of a Baltimore slave Marth...
Oct 2, 2011

Shutterbugs Episode 1 - In an Instant

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Sep 30, 2011

MDRails calls it quits, almost

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I took down MDRails, our railroad photography website today. It had a good run, but we've been cutting down on expenses and it just had ...