• CASE 1—WHAT IF...?

• CASE 2 —PHOTOGRAPHY ARRIVES

• CASE 3—VISIBLE REMNANTS

• CASE 4 —ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE PAST

• CASE 5—PEELING BACK THE LAYERS

• CASE 6—TIMELESS ACTIVITIES

• CASE 7 —ENCROACHMENT OF URBANIZATION

• CASE 8 —COLONIAL SITES DURING THE CIVIL WAR

• CASE 9—EVOLUTION OF HISTORIC SITES

• CASE 10 —RESTORATIONS

• CASE 11—RE-ENACTMENTS

• CASE 12 —HENRY WHEELER'S EYE PT. I

• CASE 13—HENRY WHEELER'S EYE PT. II

• CASE 14 —HENRY WHEELER'S EYE PT. III

• CASE 15 —HENRY WHEELER'S EYE PT. IV

• CASE 16—DOCUMENTING OF CONDITION

• COLONIAL AMERICANA TODAY

• EXHIBITS PAGE

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Colonial Photography—Viewfinder on the Past

Visible Remnants

The Visible Remnants of the Colonial World at the Time of Early Photography Includes: The effects of urban development encroaching on historic structures

  • Vanishing native lifestyles and civilizations
  • Early frontier structures
  • Markers and monuments prior to erosion or vandalism
  • Surviving veterans from Revolutionary War

Case 3

Board of Trade Building, Providence, Rhode Island. Albumen print copy ca. 1870s from original salt print or Daguerreotype, ca. 1845. The clothing store to the left of the Board of Trade building (center) was formerly the colonial tavern of James Sabin. This tavern was the meeting place for the conspiracy to burn the stranded British revenue schooner HMS Gaspee in 1772. The building was torn down by the 1870s.

Terry Collection. Virginia Tavern Sign. Albumen print. Ca. 1890s.

 

 

 

 

D. Denison. Daniel Waldo. Albumen print. Ca.1864. One of the last surviving veterans of the American Revolution.

John P. Soule. No. 586 Bunker Hill Monument. Albumen print. Ca. 1875. Although constructed in the 19th century, early photos show the Revolutionary War site 130 years closer to the event than today.

Mitchell House, Mackinac Island. Albumen stereograph. Ca. 1870s. On loan from the David V. Tinder Collection

Brainard F. Childs. Chippewa Bark Lodge–Sault Ste. Marie. Albumen stereograph. Ca. 1870s. On loan from the David V. Tinder Collection.

Old Windmill. Built 1746. Albumen print. From: Beauties of the Sea Photo Album. ca. 1895.

W.E. Wells. A General View of Chaco Canyon Ruins as has been Uncovered. Gelatin silver print. From: Pinõn Lodge, Crystal, New Mexico Photo Album. Ca. 1925.

 

Moulton-Erickson Photo Co. Nathaniel Mather's Tombstone. Albumen print. 1890.

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