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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.
Linlithgow, in Erst [Gaelic], is thus explained: Lin signifies Lough; Lith, black; and Gow, a hound." [51] A more recently recorded legend relates that the bitch was a black greyhound whose master was sentenced to starve to death on an island in the loch. She used to swim from the town every day with food for him.
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 ...
Stephen Mitchell & Sons was a Scottish tobacco manufacturing company, established in Linlithgow in 1723. [1] Mitchell is regarded as one of the earliest and the most significant player in Scottish tobacco production. [2] His grandson, also named Stephen Mitchell (1789–1874), was born in Linlithgow on 19 September 1789.
Upon his father's death on 24 December 1621 at Callendar House, he became the 2nd Earl of Linlithgow, [4] and was hereditary Constable of Linlithgow Palace in 1627. [4] He became a Privy Councillor in 1623/4 and in 1627 during the minority of the James Stewart, 4th Duke of Lennox (later 1st Duke of Richmond), he served as Lord High Admiral of ...
Earl of Linlithgow was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1600 for Alexander Livingston, 7th Lord Livingston , along with the subsidiary title of Lord Livingston and Callendar . In 1695, the Earldom of Linlithgow merged with the junior Earldom of Callendar , which had been created in 1641 for a younger son of the 1st Earl.
Alexander Livingstone succeeded his father as Lord Livingstone in 1592. Although he may well have been concerned in negotiations with Spain, he was on 31 October 1593 appointed a member of the commission for the trial of the Earls of Angus, Huntly, and Erroll for the same treasonable conduct, in the Spanish blanks plot; and he signed the act of abolition in their favour on 26 November.
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company Historians date the oldest photograph to 1826 France. At least that's the oldest one that we know of today. That's when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce started ...