{"id":6534,"date":"2012-02-09T03:33:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T08:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2019-11-25T21:46:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T02:46:02","slug":"informal-family-portrait-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/02\/09\/informal-family-portrait-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"Informal Family Portrait in the Yard – The Capewell Glass Negative Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mr and Mrs Capewell. John and Ella.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Here’s an informal family portrait of the Capewells<\/strong> of Westville, New Jersey<\/a>. John and Ella Capewell are standing behind the two women seated in the lodgepole chairs. The Capewell boys are on the ground in front of the two women. Henry is on the left and John, Jr. is on the right.<\/p>\n

\"7<\/a>I don’t know the identities of the two seated women and the woman standing on the left. They are probably aunts and sisters. They show up in some of the other negatives. From the information I’ve been able to gather, John, Sr came from a fairly large family.<\/p>\n

Henry<\/strong>, the smaller boy on the left, was born in 1908 placing this photo on a nice spring day sometime in 1910 or 1911.<\/p>\n

From what I could gather from reviewing the photos, John B. Capewel<\/strong>l seemed to be well off or at least comfortable financially. He had a nice house on Broadway with a large piece of land big enough to do farming on. He was probably doing some yard work when the ladies and the children came outside to enjoy a beautiful day. John dragged out the camera equipment and preserved this moment from about a century ago.<\/p>\n

Here’s the whole 7″ x 5″ glass negative.<\/p>\n

\"7<\/a>Below is my original shot of the 5 x 7 glass negative which I had placed on a small light box and shot with a Nikon L11 locked down on a tripod. The image was flopped, cropped and adjusted in Photoshop.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>N E W S<\/span><\/h2>\n

I’ve been posting announcements when I post these photos on Facebook. One of the pages I post to is I grew up in Westville, New Jersey…<\/a>. Besides from being a very nice group of people, they’ve been especially helpful in plying me with historical information and helping paint a picture of the Capewells. Special thanks to Robert Greer<\/strong> and James Bessing, Sr<\/strong> who have researched and offered up some wonderful nuggets of information including:<\/p>\n