The Pemberton Wedding Was Photographed in 1856. The Woman in the Center Isn't From Their Century.

Did a Woman From 1925 Walk Into an 1856 Wedding Photograph? 📷 In October 1856, eleven guests gathered on a North Carolina plantation porch for the Pemberton wedding. The photographer captured twelve. The twelfth figure wears a dropped-waist dress and bobbed hair in a style that wouldn't exist for another sixty-seven years. Every time the glass plate has been examined since 1908, she has been standing closer to the camera. Is this the most thoroughly documented photographic anomaly in the American archive, or a 168-year-old artefact of measurement? We follow the plate, the conservators, and the four claims that have been tested against the historical record. ⏳ Chapters: 00:00 — Plate Seven: The Photograph That Shouldn't Exist 06:00 — October 4th, 1856: The Wedding on the Porch 13:00 — 1908: Margaret Opens the Cedar Box 21:00 — 1923: Eldredge Whitcombe Sees It Move 29:00 — Verdicts: 168 Years of Approach 📚 Background reading on the ambrotype era and photographic archives: The Ambrotype Process and Wet Plate Collodion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrotype Wilson Library Special Collections, UNC Chapel Hill: https://library.unc.edu/wilson/ George Eastman Museum, History of Photography: https://www.eastman.org/ Library of Congress, Care of Photographic Materials: https://www.loc.gov/preservation/care... Spirit Photography in the 19th Century (history): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_...