{"id":15330,"date":"2014-01-09T07:14:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T12:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=15330"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:45:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:45:52","slug":"the-return-of-the-peculiar-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/01\/09\/the-return-of-the-peculiar-trio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Peculiar Trio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Peculiar-Trio-det\"<\/a>Last week, I presented a photograph by John Capewell<\/strong> of a well-dressed trio situated oddly in an incongruous setting<\/a>. This week , our peculiar trio is back in yet another strange setting.<\/p>\n

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They look to be surrounding a wagon that had some sort of tank in the back. A ramshackle campground looks to be before them with a spit in the foreground.<\/p>\n

\"Peculiar-Trio\"<\/a>There are fields and what looks to be a farmhouse in the background. I don’t know where this was shot, but the South Jersey\/Philadelphia area where Capewell lived had plenty of farms 100 or so years ago when this image was captured on photographic emulsion. It could be anywhere.<\/p>\n

About The Capewell Glass Negative Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Capewell Glass Negative<\/strong> Collection<\/strong><\/a> is a series of about 200 5-inch by 7-inch glass negatives shot early in the 20th Century by John Batt Capewell<\/strong> (1878-1951) of Westville, New Jersey.<\/strong> John passed the negatives down to his son Henry who left them in his wife\u2019s possession upon his passing. Henry\u2019s widow didn\u2019t know what to do with them and didn\u2019t particularly want them so she offered them to my Dad who couldn\u2019t turn down anything. Ultimately I wound up with them and thought I would one day have photographic prints struck from them. That didn\u2019t happen, but I came up with the digital workaround of placing the negatives on a lightbox and rephotographing them with a digital camera. The \u201cprocessing\u201d<\/em> was then done on a computer with image editing software. They came out better than I thought they would so I thought I would show them off to the world on this site. Many of these pictures have not been seen in a century, and I\u2019m proud to be presenting them today.<\/p>\n

At first, I did not know who the people were in the photographs. I have a box of ephemera that accompanied the negatives and snagged a few clues from that as far as the Capewell name. I did some research on the internet and had a few false starts and wrong turns, but the readers of these posts have provided a remarkable amount of research and detail. I\u2019m amazed at what people have turned up sifting through public records and such!<\/p>\n

\"DSCN1555-neg\"<\/a>Last Week: Well-Dressed and Oddly Posed<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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