![]() ![]() Here you can see various elements that went in to the image at the very top of the page (the black & white 1800s looking street). (The portico that we know today was not added until the 1820s). Here’s the southern facade, seen from the southeast, depicted as the Limestone facing began to be mounted on the brick walls.Īnd the same face seen from the southwest, a little further along in the process:Īnd here’s the north (properly, the front) as it neared completion. The close-up is the northwest corner, seen from just a few feet south and west of it. The layers reflect the actual materials, orientation and configuration learned from researching primary source material (such as reports of the crew who laid the new foundations in the 1950s as to what they found as well as reports of Thomas jeffereson, architect Benjamin Latrobe and others involved in the early days of the building). Here we see the foundation as it was originally laid down in 1791-2. These are views of a multi-layered SketchUp model I’ve built of various stages of the White House’s construction. Recent Dukes of Argyll at their seat, Inverary Castle, Scotland Swedish origin spot of my great-grandmother and 3 generations of her peopleĢ.So the examples here are each within a category: This is much closer to what it would have looked like to the de Bruchard family as they knew it.Īn older photograph also lent itself to easy changing: Well I couldn’t use a historically inaccurate image, so I did something about it. After first thinking, aha! whatta sweet image to use for that string of ancestors, I learned as I read more about them and it, that the conical rooftops (that will surely strike Americans as quintessentially “fairy-tale”) were added hundreds of years after his family had been on the scene in the depths of the actual Middle Ages. (!!) They’d been among its lords, too, for 150 years or so. In the course of working on a friend’s family tree, I learned some of his ancestors had been involved in actually building it back in the 1200s. ![]() This is Château de Jumilhac, a castle south of Limoges in southwestern France. So from these endeavors, the following sampling of images. And accurate, for instance, to the time when a particular ancestor or historical personage might have actually lived or been at a given location. But not just relevant, you really want to push it further and find images that are interesting, too. This grew out of my effort–shared with anyone who gets intricately lost in making family trees–of trying to find relevant imagery to use for people of whom no pictures exist (e.g., anyone who lived before the 1840s). Showcasing images I’ve created, composited and/or altered in order to make historical situations, places or circumstances more readily accessible to as many people as possible. ![]()
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