These 19th-century images contain very young children held still by half-obscured ... Photography was a new technology in the 19th century. Early photographers coated thin metal plates with ...

Local author Frank Smoot and the Chippewa Valley Museum recently teamed up to create the book “oh claire! lost at half moon ...

Photography became a part of public life in the mid-19th century, especially during the Civil War, when photographers documented American battlefields for the first time. Experimenting with ways ...

Local author Frank Smoot and the Chippewa Valley Museum recently teamed up to create the book “oh claire! lost at half moon lake,” a children’s adventure book exploring what Eau Claire looked like in ...