Monday, October 23, 2017

photos from 1890-1910, around New York



interesting farm wagon tarps and convertible shades for the driver






these girls are out roller skating, pulled along by the horse wagon



These photos are all from a young woman in her 20's, Jenny Young Chandler, who in 1890 embarked on a career as a photojournalist.

 She was born in 1865 and married in 1888 at the age of 22, and lived in Brooklyn, New York, where transportation consisted of walking, taking streetcars or riding in horse-drawn carriages.

 Photographs were made by lugging a heavy camera, glass plate negatives and tripod. Understanding how the photo chemicals worked and how light and camera lenses interacted proved to be an exacting task.

While photography was growing in popularity as a hobby for young women whose families could afford the equipment, as a profession, it was still considered a male domain. Yet Jenny Chandler mastered the technical details of camera and chemicals, then used her sensitivity and insight as a professional photojournalist to capture life in turn-of-the-20th century Brooklyn and vicinity.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thehenryford/albums/72157619847741309

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