Frozen in Time: An Early Carte de Visite Album from New Bedford, Massachusetts

In Frozen in Time, Susan Snow Lukesh takes a mid-nineteenth century photo album from New Bedford, Massachusetts, created against an almost unmentioned backdrop of the Civil War, and moves the people seemingly frozen in time backwards and forwards, offering details of daily living, marrying, working, and dying of both the individuals whose portraits are included as well as their kin and colleagues.

The details of daily living, of the marrying, working, and dying of the neighbors and kin in th...