Search Results: Titles starting with U from Erin Waters Fine Photographs

According to his obituary in The Hartford Courant, Butler (1909-1998) was a lifelong proponent of progressive causes. He joined the ministry as a method to help more people after being a social worker and working at a Ford plant in Detroit. He graduated Haverford and had a Yale Masters of Divinity. After graduation, he traveled in Europe as part of a youth orchestra playing the trombone and then studied social conditions in Scandinavia and the Soviet Union.
The album covers his early life and family, his time at Haverford and Yale, and has some photos of early peace rallies at home. In London, he attended a socialism rally in Hyde Park.
His travels in the USSR are quite well documented and start in Leningrad, traveling down the Volga to Stalingrad, through the Caucasus, around the Black Sea, into Georgia and to Tiflis (Tbilisi). There are many photos of Chufut-Kale in the Crimean Mountains in Ukraine. The name, which translates to 'Jewish Fortress', was a home to the Kararite Jews and has a… Read More

I love the playfulness in so many of these portraits - the smiles, the laughs. Even better is the uncommon use of a cyanotype on a CDV mount. Some negatives were printed in both cyanotype and sepia. The odd profile/silhouette reads, "After looking in the glass five minutes."
Each of these images has a gilt edge. Their condition is very good to very fine. The last two images here show the fronts and backs of the three with any notation. W.E.P. and and A.D.P. appear to have been the photographers and we can surmise they were all taken c1890 by the dates of 1889 and 1891.