We're still going through scads of photos. I bought a box of 100 4/page postcard album pages, which I thought would be enough for Lena's antique photo collection: no way! I got about half way through and ran out of space, and these are only the postcards with messages on the back, not the blank ones! To my poor math brain this means there are over 800 postcards.
Interesting news, I was looking up values of antique postcards; it turns out we have a few that are probably worth quite a bit of money, due to their subject (one, a very early photo of an old black farmer, another, a 1910 Thanksgiving card, for instance).
Craig is still scanning in old photos. He'll say he has "about reached the end" then, surprise, he finds another bunch, often including some really antique interesting ones. I'm glad he has the patience for all that scanning (and fade correcting and filing and categorizing ...!)
Well, today I'm presenting a photo of an obviously unhappy cat; and two rather unusual but unrelated photos;
This next photo is of a crooked house. At first I just thought the photo was wonky--but the ground underneath is even; the supports under the right side are longer than on the left; the step vertical supports are uneven. Strange, but I think it's real. Any comments are welcome.
The next photo is, I assume, an engagement picture. Between the rather unusual-looking moon (kind of sappy, at best) and the lady's long hair, I find this 1911 photos one of the weirdest in our possession.
ANTIQUE PHOTOS BLOG
I love antique photos. You can learn so much about how things have changed, and again how little has. We inherited 3 trunks of photos from the late 1800's to the 1940s and 50's. Most came from an enigmatic, extremely hard working but photo-loving woman named Lena, an ancestor of my husband, born in 1879. She had more contacts, more postcards (several hundreds) and more photos of herself taken than anyone who is not a well know celebrity. She seems to have collected antique photos from all around her. She unfortunately didn't identify many, only writing "Lena" on many given to her. I think she assumed she would remember, and of course after that it wouldn't matter!
We are still sorting through all the stuff trying to piece together Lena's fascinating and sometimes tragic life. Meanwhile, here are a variety of photos, including some of the highest (and lowest!) fashion.
I have also included the very old family photos I have from my mom's side of the family.
I hope you enjoy, and thank you for visiting my blog.
We are still sorting through all the stuff trying to piece together Lena's fascinating and sometimes tragic life. Meanwhile, here are a variety of photos, including some of the highest (and lowest!) fashion.
I have also included the very old family photos I have from my mom's side of the family.
I hope you enjoy, and thank you for visiting my blog.
Showing posts with label Pets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pets. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Poor Horsie
A cute new photo today. This photo features a whole family of kids on a very patient horse. The little dog is obviously in control of the whole situation! Actually the picture is very old and really neat. Enjoy! Chris
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Pets in Antique Photos
Here are some fun pet photos; I'm not completely sure in some of these who is the pet and who is the "owner." As with almost all photos in this blog, these photos were Lena's (see first few posts in the blog).
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