Opening this August, in our 3rd floor Special Exhibits Gallery, and in the adjacent San Francisco Room, will be the “Standard Times Collection, 1895-1925″ photo exhibit. There are currently 44 images under consideration and represented in this flickr set and the mosaic below, we need cut this number to under 30.
It is not too late to influence what ends in the exhibit. Which images are your favorites? Join our flickr discussion or comment directly on individual flickr photo pages. One needs to have an account (standard accounts are free) to place comments within flickr. If you’d prefer simply view the photos within flickr and tell us what you think via e-mail to photoresearch@whalingmuseum.org.
Your favorites? Comments Sought.
New Bedford Whaling Museum is fortunate to hold, through gifts of The Standard-Times newspaper, Everett S. Allen, and John D. Wilson, a collection of dry-plate glass negatives that were originally used to illustrate stories in the New Bedford Standard, forerunner to the Standard-Times. The earliest of these negatives were used as part of the nascent halftone printing process, which newspapers used to bring photographs to an increasingly image hungry readership.
This exhibit will examine newsworthy people, events, and places in the New Bedford region during the transitional decades that saw the end of the horse-and-buggy era and the emergence of a modern city.
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I loved these pictures from the past.
It illustrates or luminates the dictum, that people, are people. The clothes may change, the architecture may change, the modes of transportation may change, but nonetheless, you can see the continuity through the faces, and the expressions, that people, no matter what era they inhabit, remain intrinsically the same.
Can you see it?
By: cookkenusa on May 12, 2010
at 12:49 am
Yes!
By: michaellapides on May 12, 2010
at 12:50 am
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at 12:54 am
These are all fantastic images I would hate to see any of them get cut from the exhibit. I do, however, have to put in a vote for Rabbit Maranville.
By: Kyle on May 13, 2010
at 6:50 pm
Thanks for the “Rabbit” info: posted 5/12/10 http://www.scvbb.org/
By: michaellapides on May 13, 2010
at 10:01 pm
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