{"id":16687,"date":"2014-06-19T00:31:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T05:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=16687"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:58:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:58:30","slug":"saturday-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/06\/19\/saturday-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Saturday-in-the-Park-det\"<\/a>Some time early in twentieth century America, John B. Capewell<\/strong> shot this plate. I have no idea where it is, and Mr. Capewell left me precious little evidence. It may be Fairmount Park in Philadelphia just across the Delaware River from Westville, New Jersey where the Capewells resided. It may have been anywhere.<\/p>\n

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Here is the entire 7 inch by 5 inch glass negative.<\/p>\n

\"Saturday-in-the-Park\"<\/a><\/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

Last Week: Rocks and More Rocks<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some time early in twentieth century America, John B. Capewell shot this plate. I have no idea where it is, and Mr. Capewell left me precious little evidence. 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