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Tim Greyhavens
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Photo historian, lover of art and life. Author of Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900. #photohistory www.timgreyhavens.com
"I've never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." ~Daniel Boone
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I love reading about the challenges and triumphs of early #womenphotographers. Here's some great research on Californians Amanda Genung, a daguerreotypist and ambrotypist, and Jane Cary Howard, ambrotypist and Amanda’s business partner.

#photohistory

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November 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If you see a ghost of a one-armed man lurking among some gravestones tonight, don't be alarmed. He's just looking for his lost arm.

#halloween
#gravestones
#scarygraveyards
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If you like watching scary films for Halloween (or any other day) but don't have time for a full-length film, I highly recommend these short but creepy gems by my son, Teal Greyhavens.

#horrorfilms
#scarymovies
#halloween

www.inkrunfilms.com/work
October 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It's photography! On a boat! in the 19th century! Creative photographers roamed America via our vast network of rivers, sometimes facing enormous challenges.

#photographyboats
#photohistory

www.timgreyhavens.com/daguerreian-...
Tim Greyhavens | Daguerreian Yachts
An exploration of early American photography boats that floated down the Ohio, Mississippi, and other Rivers during the last half of the 19th century.
www.timgreyhavens.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Outstanding news from Victoria, Australia, today! This is the first step in righting centuries of wrong to the First Peoples of their continent.

#Australia
#FirstPeoples

www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
The votes are counted and the quiet shattered as treaty arrives in Victoria
The first treaty with our First Peoples came after a long debate and even longer wait.
www.theage.com.au
October 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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The Seattle Monorail is a mile long.

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Seattle No Kings from the monorail
October 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
#NoKings protest right now #Seattle
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Happy World Photobook Day! What better way to celebrate than to look back at the beginning of photography and its growth in Washington State? It's filled with over 200 photographs that show the growth of the medium and its impact on our society.
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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"Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved."

🕊🐒 RIP Dame Dr #JaneGoodall.

The groundbreaking zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist has passed away, aged 91.
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
September 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
September 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In 1883 #OTD, Cree photographer Richard Throssel was born in Marengo, Washington Territory, USA. Starting in 1902, he created a catalog of more than 1,000 images of the Crow People and their lifestyles.

#CrowNation
#NativePhotography
#RichardThrossel
Richard Throssel - Wikipedia
Richard Throssell (1882–1933) was a Cree photographer, who documented life on the Crow Reservation at the beginning of the 20th century.
en.wikipedia.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Famed Pictorialist photographer Eva Watson-Schütze was born #OTD in 1867. She studied art with Thomas Eakins, but she soon became a strong advocate for women photographers, writing, "I want [my work] judged by only one standard, irrespective of sex."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Wat...
Eva Watson-Schütze - Wikipedia
Eva Watson-Schütze (September 16, 1867 – 1935) was an American photographer who was one of the founding members of the Photo-Secession.
en.wikipedia.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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I absolutely agree with #BobMarley 🎯 🎯 🎯

#Pinks
#ProudBlue
September 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Seattle professional photographer Adair Rutledge has a great new series called "Nashville Cardinals." It's about a pee-wee football team and "what it means to be a child and expectations for what it means to 'Be a Man'.” Outstanding work!

#documentaryphotography

adairrutledge.com/NASHVILLE-CA...
Adair Freeman Rutledge | Photographer | NASHVILLE-CARDINALS | 1
Adair Freeman Rutledge is a Nashville and Seattle based commercial and editorial photographer specializing in lifestyle and portraits.
adairrutledge.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Fixed your headline for you, @nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
How many early women photographers do you know? Here’s my starting list for some of the best.

#womenphotographers
#photohistory
Ten Early Women Photographers You Should Know
In honor of Women’s History Month, I’m shining a light on some of the many under-recognized and under-valued women photographers of the past. Sadly, there are way too many photographers who should hav...
www.timgreyhavens.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Such a wonderful and yet unusual portrait. Theo van Rysselberghe - Portrait of Irma Sèthe. 1894. Musée du Petit Palais. What's going on with the half-exposed person in the next room whose hand captures a strangely disproportionate amount of attention?

#neoimpressionism
#pointalism
#VanRysselberghe
August 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
For fans of early mobile photography studios, I just posted the initial results of my research about the Boston Railroad Photo Car. As many as 13 of these cars traveled throughout the American West during the 1890s.

www.timgreyhavens.com/post/the-bos...

#photohistory
#mobilepotographystudios
August 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."
The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit
Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
How I'm actually feeling on this Wednesday evening.
Christine and the Queens - Tilted (Official Video)
YouTube video by Christine and the Queens
www.youtube.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
E. Jane Gay, who some historians identify as America's first lesbian photographer, was born #OTD. In 1889, she accompanied her future life partner, Alice Cunningham Fletcher, on an expedition to photograph the Winnebago and the Nez Perce Peoples in the West.

#LGBTQ+photographers
#womenphotographers
July 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM