The dapper gentleman is my older brother Charles. On the back of this picture written in pencil is May 18, 1952 meaning this picture was shot 60 years ago today!
We’re back by the water with another glass negative shot by John B. Capewell of Westville, New Jesrey about 100 or so years ago. My guess is that this photograph was taken on the same day and in the same place as the shot of the wading children in last week’s post. It looks like everybody is trying to escape the heat as well as indulging Capewell’s photography.
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The spring concert at Lloyd’s school is coming up, I thought it fitting to celebrate the occasion by making him a new bow tie. I’m thrilled that Denyse Schmidt’s first fabric collection, Flea Market Fancy has been reprinted, so the bow tie gave me an excuse to snap some of it up!
If you’re interested in making one, there’s a tutorial here. Happy sewing!
It was 2002 and Sam Raimi’s take on the wall crawling web-head had just been released smashing box office records and forever raising the bar on what to expect from films about costumed crime fighters. I was fired up about the movie because I was hooked to the comics as a kid, and my son Lloyd was excited by the commercials for the movie that blanketed TV screens at the time.
So here is my Mother’s Day Card for Tina circa 2002:
I’m still waiting for Mysterio to show up in a Spider-Man movie. The tragic scientist warped by his own experiments has been done to death with these movies. Mysterio was a villain with no tragic core. He was brilliant, and nasty and his costume would look really cool in a movie.
I’m trying to stick with the watery theme I’ve been keeping in recent posts. This was shot by John B. Capewell of Westville, New Jersey although I doubt that this is Westville. I don’t think it’s the Delaware River either. I don’t know if there is enough geographical details to identify the place, but I’ll entertain guesses if anybody out there has one.
The children may be Capewell’s eldest son, John Jr., and the little girl on the left may be a cousin who shows up in quite a few shots from the Capewell Collection. John, Jr. was born in 1905 which will give you a rough idea as to when this photo was shot.
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