TWAIN-L Archives

Mark Twain Forum

TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Dave Davis <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sun, 9 Mar 2014 08:59:53 -0400
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (55 lines)
Speaking of color -- there was the autochrome of 1908, right? (Bottom
center of the thumbnails on this page.)

/DDD

http://steamboattimes.com/mark_twain_gallery_1.html

Mark Twain in Color
Dec. 21 1908
Stormfield

Credit: Autochrome photograph
by Alvin Langdon Coburn.
Enlargement: 527 x 417pxs.

On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Fred Harwood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The link contains as much as I know about the photo.
>
> Google around for the source. My brief effort suggested that many have =
> posted it, but without linking to original work.
>
>
> On Mar 8, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Kit Barry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for this image. It came out very well on my printer.
>> Since this image is going into the archive I curate, it would
>> be most helpful if I could add the following information:
>>=20
>>  -  When was photograph taken:
>>=20
>>  -  By whom:
>>=20
>>  -  Where was photograph taken, as in Hartford, Elmira, other:
>>=20
>>  -  Was the original photograph a sepia print, black & white:
>>=20
>>  -  When and by whom was the photograph colorized:
>>=20
>>  -  Method of colorization:
>>=20
>>  -  Is it known why this photograph was taken, as in for a special =
> occasion:
>>=20
>> -  Was this photograph used for a specific purpose, as in publicity:
>>=20
>> Thanking you in advance,
>>=20
>> Kit Barry
>> The Ephemera Archive for American Studies
>> Brattleboro, Vermont
>
> Fred Harwood
> Linwood Cottage
> Sheffield

ATOM RSS1 RSS2