historicandoldphotos

286 photos tagged historicandoldphotos, from 1 member of Flickr Commons.

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1880

2009

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The last upload was June 2010.

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SuomiSvensk said:
Are your photos collected from Sweden or various places? This one is classic- 1870s- sitting, a young boy in oversized clothes. This was a common convention then- to take your young son to be photographed when he landed his first job. He would receive adult clothes and usually a watch.

Old Fart UK said:
"Elektrokemiske Fabriker" (Danish for "Electrochemical Manufacturers") suggests they were using the Hall–Héroult process to electrolise Aluminium Oxide (obtained by the Bayer process) to obtain 97% pure Aluminium. It wasnt possible to extract aluminium by smelting Bauxite, its natural ore, because the temperature needed was exceedingly high and hard to achieve, and at that temperature the molten aluminium tended to ignite and burn. Only with the inventon of elctriticy was it possible to devise a method of extraction. Before this, aluminium was so rare it was more expensive than Platinum, such that at banquets only Luois XIV and Maria Antonette ate off aluminium plates, the rest of the rich people had to do with gold plates.

bra forslag said:
From Måbødalen.
Fylkesarkivet i Vestland said:
bra forslag Tusen takk for informasjon om kvar biletet er teke! Mvh, Elin, fotoarkivar på Fylkesarkivet