Schedule of Events for 2013!

Cabinet cards, CDVS, and Tintypes

       I have such a hoarding tendency when it comes to old images. I absolutely love collecting cabinet cards and any abandoned tintype I can find.  I try to go to swap meets as often as possible and anytime I see a poor tintype baking in the hot sun I must own it. I do not know why the vendors insist on having their images in direct sun! Drives me absolutely nuts! Below I have scanned some of my favorite images. I have also included the back designs of some of the cards and one even includes a tax stamp.

Saved this image from the sun. They have faint pink cheeks that were hand colored.

    Love this image for the joy of the flowers. I wonder if this was a possible trades photograph, but then again so many woman did not have a job outside their home. Who knows she could have been a socialite with a massive garden. The funnest part of all of these images is imagining the life of the person.

Here eyes are huge and lovely.

    The back of this card has the stamp tax.  The US Government imposed a stamp revenue tax in order to raise money for the Civil War. The original tax was imposed in 1862 on telegrams playing cards and other luxury goods. As the way continued more funds were needed and in 1864 the government passed a tax on all ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, and photographs. The photographer was actually responsible for collecting the tax and showed its proof by placing a stamp on the back of the plate or photograph and dating it. Some photographers were fancy and used certain rubber stamps. The green Washington stamp found on some images was a 3 cent stamp and the blue stamp pictures below was a 2 cent stamp. This is the only tax revenue photograph in my collection and I am so thrilled to have found it! For my photographs I have recently purchased a collection of old stamps and plan on adding the stamps to the back of my plates for my clients.

3 cent stamp for Revenue Tax of 1864

    The embossing on this photograph and the mustache are so cool. I wonder if this images was taken with a camera with nine lenses to produce a gemtype.

  You can see the back of some of the cards. There are other cards I own just because of the back logo design of the photographer. In the middle you can see the George Washington stamp symbolizing the revenue tax. The image on the left is the back of the mustache embossed photo above and the one on the right is of the lady with the large eyes. 

Moorpark 2012

    Moorpark was the most amazing Civil War Event this year! It was on a huge corn farm and reenactors from all over the west coast. I had a wonderful time and can not wait for Vail Lake Temecula. See you then December 8-9, 2012.

copyright Jessee St. John 2012

PASADENA ARTWALK

   Last Saturday was a huge success and I want to thank all the patrons of the arts of Pasadena for coming out to the 7th Annual Art WALK. It was a huge success and can not wait for next year!

                         A very supportive crowd counts along with me as I make an exposure

All photo credits: Rachael Torres

Varnishing a plate of my sister

        

                                  Close-up of my tribute union thermoplastic cases

                                 Thank you to my family for all of their support!

I was even featured in the Pasadena Star News the next day.

Upcoming Events: See you at Moorpark at the Underwood Family Ranch November 10-11th

Completed Labels

      This morning I finished designing the labels for my wet plate collodion chemistry. This afternoon I printed them and laminated them. I went to Office Max to have them laminated and noticed the thinner laminate works much better when bending around bottles. The thicker laminate they have is to sturdy to bend and created some issues and needed to be worked a bit more to adhere to the bottle. I used Super 7 glue and nitrile gloves. Make sure to clean the surface of the bottle you are working on.

Images of the labels being prepared and adhered:

Office Max print 35 cents  and laminate is about $1.50 so all together I got everything done for $8.00.

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