Lookout Point.
The most wonderful view in the state of PA.
My father's pencilled notes from 1930, are in very similar handwriting to his notes on the back of postcards from the 1964 trip. Some are filed in the UK or a US trip order or mixed.
I copied them in that unsorted mixed order, then over a couple of days used Siri on the iPad or the laptop to add comments and the date.
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An 1860s carte de visite portrait by Drewett of 47 High Street, Guildford, England.
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CDV portrait without photographer's mark of a reading lady identified as Miss Godfrey (with a question mark) on the back.
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Tintype of a couple, probably in the 1890's, with something on a chair in the forefront. It looks to me like a small dog that did not hold still during the exposure, What do you think?
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The wheat sheaf is a death symbol we don't see anymore. It referred to this Bible passage--Job 5:26: "You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season." Because of the sheaf in this image of the funeral floral arrangements, one can assume that Celia died in old age, having lived a full life.
Tags: mourning early photography 19th century victorian nineteeth century funeral customs death fashion Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection edwardian loss clothing widow widow's weeds in memoriam social history black hair jewelry post mortem memento mori mourning brooch veil bonnet 1800s 1900s daguerreotype ambrotype tintype cdv carte de visite cabinet card albumen print Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection nineteenth century united states united kingdom funeral social customs history U.S. Civil War mourner infant mortality mourning jewelry stages of mourning mourning customs black clothing available for licensing portrait grief
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