In an old family album I found this, and it is different from the other ones that mostly show very serious looking men and women. I think it is charming and I wonder how it is possible for such an old photo to keep the good quality in hundred years. Was it the technique they used? This is about double size of the original (but of course I have compressed it)

Those old family album photos...
They tend to be sad somehow, absolutely beautiful, and very artistic even though most of them probably were not shot for purposes of "fine art photography"...
They mostly make excellent portraiture photography..!
This one reminds me the documentary portraits of August Sander...

Ahhh, these are my favorite types of photos... I don't have very many of these myself. :~( I do have an old tin photo of my great-great grandfather that I brought to the custom lab about 10 years ago. This was before scanning came into vogue...they basically took a photo of the original and printed it for me, so now I have a negative of it. I've been meaning to restore it. It's in pretty rough shape. Whenever I go into an antique store, I'm drawn to the old photos....I've never actually bought one, though I'm always tempted. My husband thinks I am nuts and can't understand why I would want photographs of dead people that aren't even related to me. This one is in great shape! Did you need to do any work on this? What I find unusal about this one is the family pet being in the photo. They must really have loved that dog to have included it in a professional portrait.

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this is WAY before RC (resin coated) paper, which doesn't last very long. Ever wonder why we have documents today that are thousands of years old? It mainly because what was used for writing purposes so long ago happened to be the best thing people could have used. They wrote on fibre, also called fibre paper. Fibre paper that is used for photographic purposes also tends to last a long time compared to RC paper.

Thanks for sharing this one with us, Gun. I like the expressions on the faces of the people in this one, and the dog is very cute!