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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Warren Coleman Manufacturing

Coleman Manufacturing Company was the first textile cotton mill in the United States owned and operated by African Americans in 1897 organized by Warren Clay Coleman. The Mill was located 2 miles from the county seat in Concord. Richard B Fitzgerald, a businessman of Durham, NC was the company first president. The mill was “allowed” to spin, weaved manufacture, finish and sell warps, yarns, cloth, prints and other fabrics like wool, cotton and other materials. Black workers was hired here and had the chance to learn industrials skills but financial problems began to take place and in 1904 the company was unable to remain open once Coleman died. The bottom Image is the original image and the top is the one from today. I tried to portray what is that we see today compared to the old. Most of the building is tore down and windows covered.

Wet Plate Collodion Project - Kelli Crockett

For my project, I wanted to depict an older looking instrument that is slightly out of place. I chose the autoharp because it was popularized in the 1950s, though in the context of a digital wet plate, you would assume it to be older. I combined this with modern jewelry as well, to further curve our understanding of when this image could have been taken just from an initial viewing of it.

From the library of congress, I used the borders off of two images from 1862. I created the rest of my textures using my and Jeff's custom brushes and many different blending modes.

Wet Plate Collodion- Brooke Hockspiel

For my concept, I wanted to take a very urbanized shopping center in Charlotte and create a humorous piece by adding in carriages. I think it contrasts well, as shopping centers definitely did not exist back then and it's unique to see carriages in this kind of a setting. I created this by taking images of carriages from the Library of Congress and adding them to my original photo taken of a shopping center parking lot.