CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPHER NEWELL family photos N.H. TWINS
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We offer 21 early photography items in the auction format every week. In addition, we list a few surprise BUY IT NOW features. OFFERED . Collection of 13 antique photographs (1 duplicate) by L.V. Newell of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. These are the personal photographs of the Newell family. BIOGRAPHY. âeoeNH photographer LV Newell captured hundreds of Civil War soldiers on home -- Confederate and Union. But the priceless glass negatives were destroyed.....It ranks among the saddest days in Portsmouth history -- yet few know the tragic tale. In moments hundreds of souls were lost, smashed to glittering bits, in an attic on the corner of Bow and Penhallow streets soon after the Civil War. For photographer Lafayette V. Newell, it was the darkest of all his days. Newell discovered his shattered glass plate negatives some time after 1866. His prized collection of historic portraits filled two heavy wooden trunks. Both had been opened, the locks snapped, the irreplaceable contents broken and scattered. Newell had transported the fragile collection from his photographic studio at Point Lookout, Maryland. T, through much of the Civil War, he ran a business making portraits of the Union soldiers guarding the 25,000 Confederate prisoners interned t Newell also photographed the prisoners of war, particularly officers and those who could afford
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