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He took many other pictures of life in the silver-mining boom town of Tombstone, Arizona, and the surrounding region. He recognized the value of his photographs to illustrate periodicals of the day and took his camera to the scenes of important events where he recorded them and resold pictures to editors nationwide.
Both Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton were each armed with a revolver and a rifle, as was the custom for riders in the country outside Tombstone. Apache warriors had engaged the U.S. Army near Tombstone just three weeks before the O.K. Corral gunfight, so the need for weapons outside of town was well established and accepted. [15]
Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.
In the photo, the moniker of the late queen — who died on September 8 at the age of 96 — is etched on the gravestone above that of her husband, Prince Philip, who passed away in April 2021 at ...
Merry Cemetery and its church Merry Cemetery (video) The workshop at Stan Ioan Pătraș's house where the tombstones of Merry Cemetery were created. The Merry Cemetery (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel pronounced [tʃimiˈtirul ˈvesel]) is a cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Maramureș County, Romania.
The death of the early leader likely would have called for an elaborate burial and tombstone, which has survived for nearly four centuries. “This guy was the governor of the colony, so he was a ...
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
Johnny Ringo, son of Martin and Mary Peters Ringo, had distant Dutch ancestry, [2] and was born in what later became the small town of Greens Fork, Clay Township, Wayne County, Indiana.