John Bryan, Imprisoned Four Months for Stealing Lead.

John Bryan, a photo by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
John Bryan carried out 4 months at Newcastle City Gaol for stealing lead in 1873.

Age (on discharge): 29
Height: 5.6
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Place of Birth: Newcastle
Status: Married
Occupation: Waterman

These photographs are of convicted criminals in Newcastle between 1871 - 1873.

Reference:TWAS: PR.NC/6/1/1226

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To purchase a hi-res copy please email archives@twmuseums.org.uk quoting the title and reference number.

B.F. Tracy (LOC)

B.F. Tracy (LOC), a photo by The Library of Congress on Flickr.

Via Wikipedia
Benjamin Franklin Tracy (April 26, 1830 – August 6, 1915) was a United States political figure who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1889 through 1893, during the administration of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison.

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Bain News Service,, publisher.

B.F. Tracy

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.18204

Call Number: LC-B2- 3357-10

Beeman's Pepsin Gum

Beeman's Gum, a photo by Winnebago71 on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Picture of an old advertising sign in a old drugstore in St. Augustine Florida

The perfection of chewing gum.
A delicious remedy for all forms of indigestion.

Caution- See that the name Beeman is on each wrapper.

An Overpainted Solar Enlargement Fragment

An Overpainted Solar Enlargement Fragment, a photo by Photo_History on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
A small solar enlargement. The mount board is brittle and the edges have crumbled into a ragged, freeform shape. It speaks about the process of painting solar enlargements. When a small negative, likely a cdv, is projected onto photographic paper using sunlight and an enlarging camera, the resulting print will probably be rather soft and lack detail. The photographic retoucher will then, with varying degrees of skill, retouch and paint the print to add back detail. In some cases the result shows little or none of the underlying photograph. If the quality of the negative and the skill of the enlarging are good enough there may still show photographic detail. Close examination of this print shows some of the original photograph in the beard but everything else is overpainted. A faint oval around the portrait shows that it was in a mat for a long period of time.

W.T. Delihant, President of the Standard Washed Coal Company

via superitch.com

From the 1904 Vanity Cartoon Book, Illinoisans As We See ‘Em, comes a smoking gun in the form of the self-paid caricature of Chicagoan W.T. Delihant, President of the Standard Washed Coal Company. Delihant, holding a piece of coal and a magician’s wand, with a goldfish bowl of water nearby, proudly fancied himself as a “Sleight of Hand Performer”, just like today’s coal companies distract the public from the dangers of Climate Destabilization, with their own sleight-of-hand promises involving uninvented & mythological Clean Coal Technology.

Sultan of Egypt -- Hussein Kamel Pasha (LOC)

Sultan of Egypt -- Hussein Kamel Pasha (LOC), a photo by The Library of Congress on Flickr.

Sultan Hussein Kamel (Arabic: السلطان حسين كامل‎; 21 November 1853 – 9 October 1917) was the Sultan of Egypt from 19 December 1914 to 9 October 1917, during the British protectorate over Egypt.


Hussein Kamel was the son of Khedive Isma'il Pasha, who ruled Egypt from 1863 to 1879. Hussein Kamel was declared Sultan of Egypt on 19 December 1914, after the occupying British forces had deposed his nephew, Khedive Abbas Hilmi II, on 5 November 1914. The newly created Sultanate of Egypt was declared a British protectorate. This brought to an end the de jure Ottoman sovereignty over Egypt, which had been largely nominal since Muhammad Ali's seizure of power in 1805.


Upon Hussein Kamel's death, his only son, Prince Kamal al-Din Husayn, declined the succession, and Hussein Kamel's brother Ahmed Fuad ascended the throne as Fuad I. At the beginning of Naguib Mahfouz's novel Palace Walk, Ahmad Abd al-Jawwad says "What a fine man Prince Kamal al-Din Husayn is! Do you know what he did? He refused to ascend the throne of his late father so long as the British are in charge." via Wikipedia.org



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T. Elwood Newlin, 1850-1932

T. Elwood Newlin, 1850-1932, a photo by ozfan22 on Flickr.

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Secretary, Pickering Land Co. in Whittier, California. A street in Whittier is named after him.

James Dawson, You Naughty Boy!

James Dawson, You Naughty Boy!, a photo by John McNab on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Pinched from the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums flickr page:

www.flickr.com/photos/twm_news/

Question: What were you doing on 9 June 1902?

I think I was home reading.

Early Austria-Hungary Mustaches

Untitled, a photo by ggaabboo on Flickr.

Tintype of Father and Daughter with a Naive Painted Backdrop

Tintype of Father and Daughter with a Naive Painted Backdrop, a photo by Photo_History on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Photo_History, via flickr writes:

I like this tintype of a father and daughter sitting on a rustic bench for several reasons. The girl seems less than enthusiastic about the photographic process. She leans back against her father as if for reassurance. Both look directly into the camera lens. The elaborate background of landscape and birds does not have the feel of a professionally painted commercial backdrop. The plants and birds are rather naive in execution.

I spent some time this week in the storage box of tintypes and picked out some that I will be posting over the next few days. Once again I am finding images that I had forgotten but feel are worth sharing.

Archduke Leopold Salvator (LOC)

Archduke Leopold Salvator (LOC), a photo by The Library of Congress on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Archduke Leopold Salvator

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.17679

Call Number: LC-B2- 3278-3

Ukraine Mustache Men - ca:1878s

Untitled, a photo by ggaabboo on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
photographer: L. Blachowski - Lwow/Lemberg/ - Ukraine - ca:1878s

A 1908 Mustache from Eastern Europe

Untitled, a photo by ggaabboo on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
photographer: Bogdán Ferenc - Kézdivásárhely - 1908 Kálmán és Rózsika

St. Nicholas restaurant 1873

st nicholas restaurant 1873, a photo by Captain Geoffrey Spaulding on Flickr.

St. Nicholas Shell Oysters received daily by express.
For LADIES & GENTLEMEN
SOUTH-EAST CORNER OF FOURTH AND RACE STS.
B.ROTH & SONS, Prop'rs.

Honorable William Mahone of Virginia

Hon. William Mahone, "Little Billy"

William Mahone (December 1, 1826 – October 8, 1895) was a civil engineer, teacher, soldier, railroad executive, and a member of the Virginia General Assembly and U.S. Congress. Small of stature, he was nicknamed "Little Billy".


Educated at Virginia Military Institute, Mahone helped build Virginia's roads and railroads in the antebellum period. In 1855, he married the former Otelia Voinard Butler of Smithfield. Local tradition notes that they were each colorful characters. Based upon Ivanhoe, a novel she had been reading, the naming of several railroad towns in Southside Virginia is credited to Otelia and "Little Billy". The name of Disputanta was allegedly created after the couple had a "dispute" over an appropriate name.


During the American Civil War, as a leader eventually attaining the rank of major general of the Confederate States Army, Mahone is best known for turning the tide of the Battle of the Crater against the Union advance during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864. His wife served as a nurse in Richmond. Although the Mahone family had owned several slaves before the war, biographer Nelson Blake has noted that during the War and after, Mahone accorded the African Americans under his leadership and generally with considerably more respect than many of his peers. Still, many African American leaders complained that Mahone was relegating them to the lower rung political positions, and he was affected by public sentiments against African Americans. To elevate them could diminish his white support and needed both public and white support.


At the conclusion of the Civil War, he returned to his pre-war position heading the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, working to rebuild it, and the two trunk lines west of Petersburg to Bristol, Virginia, at the Tennessee border. He successfully united the three in 1870 to form the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad (AM&O), which was headquartered in Lynchburg. As he and Otelia made their home there, the pundits were already claiming that AM&O really stood for "All Mine and Otelia's".


Even while still serving in the Confederate Army, Mahone had also become involved in politics. In the post-war years, he helped form and lead a coalition of blacks, Republicans, and Conservative Democrats that became known as the Readjuster Party (so-named for a position regarding Virginia's troublesome post-War public debt issues). Partially owned by the state, the AM&O went into receivership several years after the Financial Panic of 1873. When it was sold to northern interests who formed the Norfolk and Western (N&W) in 1881, Mahone working with African American members of the Readjuster Party helped arrange for a portion of the proceeds to be used to fund a teacher's school and collegiate institute to educate Virginia's large African American population, now known as Virginia State University, and also to build a mental hospital for blacks nearby, long known as Central State Hospital.


Mahone's hand-picked candidate, William E. Cameron, won the election as Governor of Virginia as a Readjuster, and Mahone himself subsequently won a term as a U.S. Senator. With his status as an independent, he held an important swing vote in the evenly divided upper house in the U.S. Congress, which became especially important after the assassination of President James A Garfield. However, he tended to caucus with the Republicans, and was defeated for reelection by the candidate of Virginia's Conservative Democrats, who were also assuming the other political control in Virginia they would later hold until the 1960s under the Byrd Organization.


Despite eventually losing control of both the AM&O railroad and the political power that went with the Readjuster Party, Mahone accumulated substantial wealth, partially through the foresight of valuable personal investments in bituminous coal lands in the western regions of Virginia where he had hoped to extend the AM&O. When Mahone died in 1895, followed by his widow Otelia in 1911, they were each interred with other family members in Petersburg's Blandford Cemetery. Their former residence formed a portion of a new Petersburg Public Library.


text from Wikipedia page on William Mahone.

Library of Congress PHOTO INFO:

• Title: Mahone, Hon. Wm. of Va. (General in Confederate Army)
• Date Created/Published: [between 1865 and 1880]
• Medium: 1 negative : glass, wet collodion.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpbh-04359 (digital file from original neg.)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Call Number: LC-BH832- 666 [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
• Notes:
  • Title from unverified information on negative sleeve.
  • Annotation from negative, inked on emulsion: 666; scratched into emulsion: 799 [crossed out], Mahone.
  • Forms part of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
• Format:
  • Glass negatives--1860-1880.
  • Portrait photographs--1860-1880.
• Collections:
  • Brady-Handy Collection
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