A look at chairs.

Mike Serpa

Lt. Colonel
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These photos are from the New York State Military Museum.

Edward Barker.jpg

Edward Baker

Dennis E. Barnes.jpg

Dennis E. Barnes

Jesse B. Barry.jpg

Jesse B. Barry

Theodore M. Brown.jpg

Theodore M. Brown

Charles P. Cramer.jpg

Charles C. Cramer

Byron A. Duhnage.jpg

Byron A. Duhnage

Thomas Graham.jpg

Thomas Graham

Luther H. Graves.jpg

Luther H. Graves
 
All the backdrops and props are very ornate except Thomas Graham's. I take this to be a southern studio and impoverished by the war.
In the first photo with Edward Baker, I see a defect in the coat and not the photo, which has me wondering.
Of course the last two with children are cute as pie. I don't think they are too keen on the whole idea of some man playing hide and seek behind the camera. "Ok, Smile" especially if a flashpan was used!
(I have yet to learn to copy/paste multiple threads, so use of the scroll is required; sorry).
Lubliner.
 
All the backdrops and props are very ornate except Thomas Graham's. I take this to be a southern studio and impoverished by the war.
In the first photo with Edward Baker, I see a defect in the coat and not the photo, which has me wondering.
Of course the last two with children are cute as pie. I don't think they are too keen on the whole idea of some man playing hide and seek behind the camera. "Ok, Smile" especially if a flashpan was used!
(I have yet to learn to copy/paste multiple threads, so use of the scroll is required; sorry).
Lubliner.
There are a few photos with "defects." They are holes from thumbtacks. All of them had two or three holes. I cropped most of the photos and did some touching up on some of them.
 
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The chair was in Brady's studio by February 9, 1864 and used when Lincoln and his son, Tad, were photographed in what would become one of the most iconic and poignant photographs of Lincoln. No less than five U.S. presidents sat in the chair for portraits, as well as senators and civil servants, Civil War soldiers, Justices and Native Americans.

"There is perhaps no other single object that connects with so many important people, all prominent figures in 19th-century American history," said Madelia Ring, Bonhams specialist of American & English Furniture & Folk Art. "What also gives the Brady chair such distinction, is that while other commissioned chairs occasionally surface at auction, those bearing the stamp of Bembe & Kimbel are rare." The chair was offered at a Bonhams auction in 2015 with an estimate of $150,000-$250,000 and the final sale price was $449,000.

Link to article with more info https://www.antiquetrader.com/antiq...raphers-chair-seats-449000-tripling-estimate/
 
Ah. What about those paper bag chairs?

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Often times when an infant or small child where to be photographed the mother or nanny would be concealed under a blanket (when only the childs likeness was to be made) or some other kind of drapery when holding the child to keep them still during the exposure. Some of the images with covered mothers looked down right creepy.
 

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