Nova Scotia Faces: an exploration of photographs from Nova Scotia junk stores

version of 22 August 2012

I keep the snapshots not for what they show but for what is hidden in them.
Margaret Laurence, The Diviners, 14


This page is a temporary onramp which will gradually evolve as I contrive a new entry for the project


Overview of the Project | Background to the Collection | The Mystique of Nova Scotia

Photographs as Evidence | Grouping the Images | Storytelling with Vernacular Photographs

Technical Matters | Loose Ends


Categories:

| Poor Alice G. |
| singletons | pairs | couples | weddings |
| the little stranger | baby pictures and another presentation | horrid children | adolescents | rites of passage | families | sibling sets | lionesses |
| hair genes | beards and moustaches | hats and another presentation | hair | fashion | head shapes |
| groups | posing for a photograph | the new car | occupations | Annapolis Valley apples |
| soldiers | nurses | Nova Scotians at play | postcards from away |
| gone but not forgotten | unlikely clergymen | canine indignities | the tale of David Anderson Behie |
| ambrotypes | tintypes | more tintypes | and still more tintypes | even more tintypes |
| cartes de visite | more cartes de visite | and more cartes de visite | cabinet cards | unclassified |

Albums

| the art of layout | Miss E. Woodward's album | what Naum knew: the Young album | Lizzie Ritchie's album | another Ritchie album |
| the Risser album | Alalia Stevens' album | gem album |

Side Projects, not from Nova Scotia:

| from Laura | Joe Wilner | Wilner continued | and more Wilner |
| from Heidi | 20th Connecticut Volunteers |
| enigmata |

Flickr comments have been a noteworthy addition to the corpus, especially those of Luscher.

Here are the four videos I've already put up at YouTube: