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Amusement Park Film Strips
Amusement Park Film Strips
Going through a new bulk buy, I found these interesting film strips. They appear to be from one of those coin operated amusement park photo booths. Both strips have three photos of the same subject. For some reason I feel like these are British women, but I have nothing to back that up. Not even the rest of the phot [...]
WWI Photos – 1st Engineers Comp...
WWI Photos – 1st Engineers Company D
From a collection of what I believe are 4×6 Autochrome slides, are these photos, of World War I photos. These are obviously copies as mine show the photos tacked to a wall of some sort with standard push pins. I cropped those out to try to get to the “original” photo. Nor have I been [...]
Found Photo – Mr and Mrs George...
Mr and Mrs George Zeller and Children
Today’s found photo is Mr and Mrs. George Zeller, and a posse of unknown children. Labeled on the back “Grandma Kirk’s oldest sister.” So probably related to this photo?
The back of this photo has some awesome information!
As he’s advertised here, W.R. Cross was a prolifi [...]
Utter Children
Utter Children
Found in the same book and thrift store as Mr and Mrs George Heinrich, was this great family photo of the Utter Children.
Photographer(s) were John A. Gault and Christian A. Lind. According to the Wisconsin Historical Society, they ran a joint photo studio in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in 1888. In 1889, they had moved to Marinette [...]
Unknown late 1800s woman
Unknown late 1800s woman
I don’t remember where I came across this photo. It’s unlabeled, so we’ll probably never know who she was. Interesting to me from a technical perspective is how blown out the light is. I wonder if that was on purpose or an accident.
The embossed writing says “Marceau Power” “Paris [...]
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