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Are people the same today as they were 125 years ago? The fashions may have changed, but our love for life and each other remains the same. Travel back in time to the early 1900s and experience sharply detailed photographs made from glass plate negatives taken in the Philadelphia area. We’ve discovered that the photographer is a man named John L. McDermond. He was the father of the man whose house we bought in 1978. The negatives were stored in the damp, dark basement, forgotten after the photographer died in 1941.

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