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1919, Dana and Murphy; Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr., landscape architect. PA 1001 and Manor Dr. NW (PA 1005) Now home to an order of Franciscan monks, this was first the summer home of Charles Schwab, Andrew Carnegie's trusted lieutenant and the first president of the United States Steel Corporation. Eager to occupy the new property he named ...
In the early 1920s, Leavitt’s firm became Charles Wellford Leavitt & Son, with the addition of his son, Gordon. Leavitt became a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1904, and held memberships in the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Institute of Consulting Engineers, serving as president of the latter in 1923.
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In the first half of the 19th century, photography was a new and exciting medium. So the masses wanted to capture life's biggest momentson film. Sadly, one of the most common moments captured was death. Due to the high mortality rates, most people couldn't expect to live past their 40s. And when disease spread, infants and children were especially ...
Photographing dead people may seem like a ghastly task. But in the 19th century, deceased subjects were often easier to capture on film than living ones — because they weren't able to move. Due to the slow shutter speed of early cameras, subjects had to remain still to create crisp images. When people visited studios, photographers would sometimes ...
People in the Victorian era mourned deeply after the death of a loved one — and this mourning certainly wasn't limited to photos. It was common for widows to wear black for years after their husbands died. Some even clipped hair from their dead loved ones and preserved the locks in jewelry. As if that wasn't dark enough, Victorians often surrounded...
Today, some Victorian death photos shared online are actually fakes— or they're photographs of the living mistaken for the dead. Take, for example, a commonly shared image of a man reclining in a chair. "The photographer posed a dead person with his arm supporting the head," many captions claim. But the photograph in question is a picture of the au...
Jun 4, 2016 · The advent of snapshots sounded the death knell for the art - as most families would have photographs taken in life. Now, these images of men, women and children stoically containing their grief ...
"Charles Wellford Leavitt, the Artist's Cousin" by Cecilia Beaux. Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871–1928) was an American landscape architect, urban planner, and civil engineer who designed everything from elaborate gardens on Long Island, New York and New Jersey estates to federal parks in Cuba, hotels in Puerto Rico, plans of towns in Florida, New York and elsewhere.
Jul 19, 2017 · By the 1860s, death photos began explicit attempts to animate the corpse. Dead bodies sit in chairs, posed in the act of playing or reading. In one striking tintype dated 1859, a young boy perches ...
