Comments on: As a second example of the astonishing level of detail in the Archibald Murchie glass negative of Keefers recently posted (http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=54515), consider this extreme crop to another group of cars near the depot. Probably stored tipped to avoid accumulating precipitation, those side-dump cars are something never seen before, simple predecessors of the air-dumps common today. The nine people facing the camera are likely a significant part of the population of Keefers, which was probably still known as Keefer’s in those days. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 07 May 2026 18:15:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=54519#comment-61151 Stephen C. Host Tue, 04 Jun 2024 14:28:05 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1890s_cp-keefers-glass-negative_archibald-murchie_3200-dpi-cropped-1920x1117-pixels1.jpeg#comment-61151 Wow. I definitely think they were told a photo will be taken and all lined up for the shot. I imagine they all knew that the exposure time was rather long too.. from what I understand the exposure time was in minutes not seconds for glass plate negatives. Wow. I definitely think they were told a photo will be taken and all lined up for the shot. I imagine they all knew that the exposure time was rather long too..

from what I understand the exposure time was in minutes not seconds for glass plate negatives.

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