postcards from graffigny

Old postcards of Graffigny-Chemin

Voici une collection de cartes postales du début du siècle de Graffigny-Chemin.

Certaines des cartes postales célébrer la fête de Jeanne d'Arc du 29 Avril au 9 Mai.Le festival marque le siège de 1428-1429, quand Jeanne d'Arc ont aidé à libérer la ville d'Orléans des Anglais.L'année 1909 marque la béatification de Jeanne d'Arc par l'Église catholique.

These postcards are scenes of Graffigny-Chemin at the turn of the century. The scene shown is taken from the main church in Graffigny. The building shown on the left of the photo behind the wall is the carriage house of my great grandmother Laura Chevallier Meine.

Thanks to Jean-Marie for this postcard and another of the church at the Rue de Four. Other images from delcampe.net.

panoramiques

These are views of Graffigny-Chemin from afar.

In French such views are referred to as panoramiques.The technique may involve multiple shots that are then compiled together in photoshop. Older photographs such as these required the use of a wide-angle lens.Panoramas of Paris.

The history of postcards.

The history of photography is less than 170 years old. In 1837 Louis Daguerre developed the Daguerreotype process, creating images on silver-plated copper, coated with silver iodide and "developed" with warmed mercury. Plates were wet, slow to develop, and generally, left to the professional. In 1871 Richard Leach Maddox, an English doctor, simplified the process by the use of an emulsion of gelatin and silver bromide on a glass plate, the "dry plate" process. By 1888 the first Kodak camera was available, and in 1900 the Kodak Brownie box roll-film was introduced.

The first privately made postcard, where postage had to be affixed, was introduced in Austria in 1869 and by 1870, picture postcards were all the rage!

Emotionscard.

Postcards such as the ones pictured here are collected and sold on the internet.