Categories: PhotographyTags: Black and White Image, Glass Plate Image, Glass Plate NegativeBlack and White Image from a Seeds Glass Plate Late 1800s Chest of Drawers For your visual considerations is this awesome image from a Seeds Glass Plate Negative we came across recently. Check out the “close up” of an interesting grouping of figurines on top of the ant […]

Categories: PhotographyTags: 1864, Army Engineers, Atlanta Campaign, George Barnard, Topographical BranchThe Atlanta Campaign of 1864 It is hard to imagine two massive armies maneuvering and clashing in the area that is now Atlanta, Georgia. One army attempting to force its will upon the future metropolis and the other doing everything in its power to resist […]

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Categories: PhotographyTags: Camera Obscura, Daguerreotype, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, modern photography, Nicéphore Niépce, photogravureFirst Permanent Image, First Photo, Niépce and Daguerre Nicéphore Niépce (1765 – 1833) a French inventor, one of the inventors of photography and a true pioneer in the field of the permanent image. He is recognized as pr […]

Categories: PhotographyTags: 19th century photography, Museum of Art, photographers, photographs, Photography Exhibition, Photography ShowNorton Museum’s Recently Acquired Photography Show Sizzles with Awesome Additions of the Past Year Who? Norton Museum What? Photography Exhibition – Recent Acquisitions: Photography Where? The Norton Museum of Art is locat […]

Categories: PhotographyTags: 1942, Douglas Aircraft, Plane Noses, Random Black and White PhotoRandom Black and White Photo – Douglas Aircraft Airplane Noses 1942 “Stars over Berlin and Tokyo will soon replace these factory lights reflected in the noses of planes at Douglas Aircraft’s Long Beach, Calif., plant. Women workers groom lines of transparent noses f […]

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Categories: PhotographyTags: c.1909, Panoramic View Photo, Random Black and WhiteGround-level Panoramic View of an excavation looking south, during the initial construction of the Panama Canal c.1909   The photographer and date are unknown, but other images from this series, showing similar views, date from around 1909. The original image measures 36″ x 10″. […]

Photo Courtsy of Nachokitty    Renwal Manufacturing Company, Inc produced the most highly collectible of all plastic dollhouse furniture from 1945-1956.  Previous furniture for dollhouses had either wooden pieces or metal pieces. This became almost impossible to produce due to WWII and the shortages of metal.  Renwal offered a wonderful alternative, a qualit […]

I decided to start with tin lithograph houses, as currently they seem to be the most popular. The most famous of all the lines of tin dollhouses is the Marx line.  In the 1950's the company dominated the production of tin houses and plastic doll furniture. Marx produced their first tin houses in 1949, starting with model  # 4079 (not lighted) and # 4080 […]

   Part 1 in a series about Doll Houses, Past, Present and Future.  In the final blog of this series we will reveal a BIG surprise that has been a culmination of work over the past 40 years.. So stay tuned in, feel free to comment, and let the fun begin..    A dollhouse is a toy home, made in miniature. For the last century, dollhouses have primarily been th […]