Fascinating Faces from the Past
Video: Three minutes of beautiful, interesting, captivating, and charismatic faces from my collection of antique and vintage photographs
Beautiful Historic Broadside Advertisement for Daguerreotype Photographer E.S. Hayden of Connecticut
Discussion of an 1850 photography ad for Daguerreotype photographer E.S. Hayden of Waterbury CT
Historic 1907 Photograph of a Street in Chanute, Kansas (with History)
Photographer Keith Dotson studies and researches an early 1900s photograph of Chanute, Kansas and reveals interesting local history
Dispatch August 2026: My Monthly Photography Newsletter
Photographer Keith Dotson's Photography Newsletter for August 2026
Flipping page-by-page through a tattered 1860s family photo album from Ohio
Photographer Keith Dotson flips page by page through a tattered 1860s family photo album from Ohio
Looking at an Antique Tintype Portrait in a Beautiful Case, Circa Early-1860s
Fine art photographer Keith Dotson shows a small tintype portrait in an oval frame, dated to just around the period of the American Civil War. He also examines the beautiful thermoplastic gutta-percha style case.
Keith Dotson’s Photography Newsletter: Behind the Scenes News & Video (July 2026)
Keith Dotson's Photography Newsletter: Behind the Scenes News & Video (July 2026)
Photographs from an Unidentified Oklahoma Family’s Antique Film Negatives (Pre-1920)
In this blog post and video, we will look at early 1900s photographs from an Oklahoma family scanned from their old negatives.
A Visit to the Historic Jeffcoat Photography Studio Museum in Abilene, Kansas (Video)
Join fine art photographer Keith Dotson on a visit to the historic Jeffcoat Photography Studio Museum in Abilene, Kansas