This is an enhancement of the earliest known portrait of a woman. It is Dorothy Catherine Draper photographed in 1839/40 - an artist, educator and chemist, who is also notable for being the subject of the earliest known US daguerreotype photograph. I have cleaned, enhanced and…

Riverview School District’s 2024 commencement ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. June 6 at Riverside Park. The district has 50 students graduating this year. community.triblive.c…

There was such nice engagement with the 1841 photograph of the Thames I shared yesterday, I thought you may like to see one of my personal favourite images of the old City, which gives a much clearer view of the river wharves in 1855. This was taken almost 170 years ago, showing…

What a night! The 2024 Senior and Athletic Awards Ceremony set a new bar for Riverview excellence! Thanks to our administrators, administrative staff, teachers, parents, and local partners who make these generous scholarships possible for our students!

With all eyes on Westminster, I thought I'd offer you a view of London in June 1841 before the Houses of Parliament were even built. I've cleaned-up this old salt print photograph taken 183 years ago by William Fox Talbot, from the window of his flat in Cecil Street. The original…

When I came upon these startling colour wartime photos, I wanted to share them. I think they're remarkable. They show a London bus, driven into a fragmentation bomb crater in Balham High Street, South London, in October 1940. The bomb struck the road just after 8 pm on Monday…

I take you back in time 112 years to the mountains of southern Bosnia-Herzegovina. This young shepherd was photographed in 1912. His name is not recorded, but curiously his religion as a Catholic is. The autochrome is catalogued as depicting a young shepherd, but he may possible…