{"id":9598,"date":"2012-08-30T06:20:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T11:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=9598"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:08:00","slug":"mama-and-the-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/08\/30\/mama-and-the-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama and the Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I first came into possession of the 200 negatives<\/strong> that comprise the Capewell Glass Negative Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, I knew next to nothing about them or who the people were in the photographs. As time went on, I assembled evidence sometimes haphazardly and had a lot of help from the readers of these posts who have been very generous with information. Sadly, this is one of those photos of which I know nothing.<\/p>\n

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These people may be relatives of Westville, New Jersey’s John B. Capewell<\/strong> or possibly neighbors. It was part of the collection pictured above, and I have little doubt that Capewell shot it. It maybe shot in Westville. I don’t know. Hopefully somebody out there recognizes one of the folks here as a relative.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>One thing is for certain, if these seven boys were brothers and the woman was their mother, there was ample reason for the woman’s frown and thousand-yard stare.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As with all of the photographs in the\u00c2\u00a0Capewell Collection Glass Negative Collection<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0I placed this 5\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 x 7\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 glass negative on a lightbox and shot it with a digital camera locked down on a tripod. The\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153processing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0was done digitally on a Mac using\u00c2\u00a0Adobe Photoshop.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Last:\u00c2\u00a0Westville\u00e2\u20ac™s Independent Fire Company No. 2 Gets Mechanized\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/a> |<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Next<\/strong>: This Old House<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first came into possession of the 200 negatives that comprise the Capewell Glass Negative Collection, I knew next to nothing about them or who the people were in the photographs. As time went on, I assembled evidence sometimes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1104],"tags":[158,1639,1095,1106,122,118,66,3676,336],"class_list":["post-9598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-capewell-glass-negative-collection","tag-analog","tag-antique-photography","tag-glass-negative","tag-john-b-capewell","tag-new-jersey","tag-photography","tag-photoshop","tag-the-capewell-glass-negative-collection","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-2uO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5758,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/29\/capewell-glass-negative-collection-snowy-self-portraits\/","url_meta":{"origin":9598,"position":0},"title":"The Capewell Glass Negative Collection – Snowy Self-Portraits","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 29, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are a couple more negatives from The Capewell Glass Negative Collection which were shot about a 100 years ago. 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Capewell along with the family dog. Notice John B Capewell's hands. He's holding a spool of string in one hand and giving the string a tug with the other. 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Capewell's glass negatives that he shot about 100 years ago. I don't have any information as to the identity of this pair, but the girl appears in a number of the 200 glass negatives in my possession. 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