{"id":9892,"date":"2012-09-27T06:22:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T11:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=9892"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:08:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:08:10","slug":"children-of-the-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/09\/27\/children-of-the-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of the Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of John B. Capewell’s<\/strong> brothers ran a farm and corn must have been one of his crops. This is a photograph of John’s sons, John, Jr. standing and Henry O. seated on the lodge pole chair.<\/p>\n

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New Jersey is known as the Garden State,<\/em> and there are a number of glass negatives in the collection showing a farm and farming. My guess is that the farm was in Westville. The town was more spread out back then, and there was plenty of room for crops or some livestock. \"\"<\/a>They were cute kids. Henry was born in 1908, and he looks fairly young so this is probably 1909 or 1910. As I wrote above, I’m fairly sure that these are John’s sons. There are other pictures in this series with John and his wife Ella holding these children, but as I look at the close-up, I see what looks like a beaded necklace around the younger child’s neck. It’s an odd piece of jewelry for a boy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This looks to be the first of a couple takes. Capewell must have had a fresh box of glass negatives and wanted to capture the kids on what was probably a perfect day over a 100 years ago. What is remarkable about these shots is that the kids as young as they were managed to remain still while the negative was being exposed. The exposures were fairly long and the slightest movement would blur the shot.<\/p>\n

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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: John and the Boys in a Kiddie Car <\/em><\/a>|<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Next<\/strong>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of John B. Capewell’s brothers ran a farm and corn must have been one of his crops. This is a photograph of John’s sons, John, Jr. standing and Henry O. seated on the lodge pole chair.<\/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":[1977,1094,1573,1976,1163,1652,1975,1974,1318,1095,1106,122,118,66,3676,336,121],"class_list":["post-9892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-capewell-glass-negative-collection","tag-1977","tag-1094","tag-antique-photograph","tag-babies","tag-children","tag-corn","tag-crops","tag-farm","tag-garden-state","tag-glass-negative","tag-john-b-capewell","tag-new-jersey","tag-photography","tag-photoshop","tag-the-capewell-glass-negative-collection","tag-vintage","tag-westville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-2zy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10258,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/25\/tending-the-crops\/","url_meta":{"origin":9892,"position":0},"title":"Tending the Crops","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"John B. Capewell's brother owned a farm in Westville, NJ, and this looks to be it. The long lanky fellow on the left is John's brother. I don't know who the fellow is on the right. Here's the entire negative: As with all of the photographs in the\u00c2\u00a0Capewell Collection Glass\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "The Capewell Glass Negative Collection"","block_context":{"text":"The Capewell Glass Negative Collection","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/the-capewell-glass-negative-collection\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tending-crops-detail.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tending-crops-detail.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tending-crops-detail.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tending-crops-detail.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":17349,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/09\/25\/let-sleeping-dogs-lie\/","url_meta":{"origin":9892,"position":1},"title":"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"September 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another in a series of photographs that John Capewell shot of his children with the familiar lodgepole chair, a curtain of corn as a background and the family pet. This appears to be Capewell's son John, Jr. This was probably shot in Westville, New Jersey. 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This week, the parents join in for a family portrait. Mrs. and Mr. John B. Capewell of Westville, New Jersey are seated in a lodge pole loveseat with Henry O. in Mom's lap and John, Jr. in Dad's. 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Capewell shot a number of photographs of his family in front of this corn field which was probably in Westville, New Jersey where the Capewells resided. Back then New Jersey lived up to it's name of The Garden State.This was probably shot the same day as the negative\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "The Capewell Glass Negative Collection"","block_context":{"text":"The Capewell Glass Negative Collection","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/the-capewell-glass-negative-collection\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/good-doggie.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/good-doggie.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/good-doggie.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12868,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/05\/02\/the-ignominious-end-of-the-three-little-pigs\/","url_meta":{"origin":9892,"position":4},"title":"The Ignominious End of the Three Little Pigs","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"May 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another farm image shot by John Capewell of Westville, NJ from early in the 20th century. 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