2″ 1/2 x 3″ 1/5 snapshot of 1940s man in fedora with camera. Private Collection.
Fedora, check, smile, check, camera, check. A nice candid taken at a low angle in the sun. I think this was taken in the late 40s or early 50s. The camera he’s holding looks like a variant of the Kodak Tourist I or II which first came out in the late 40s. I’m pretty sure this is a Kodak by the style of flap to the side. Agfas were similar but the flap opened from the bottom. Those would set you back about $750 in today’s money.
This man’s well dressed yet casual with the polo collar over the coat lapels.
Bowlers And High Collars 
July 7th, 2015 at 1:13 pm
Ahh the joys of rolls of film then opening the back and fogging the whole roll
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July 7th, 2015 at 1:15 pm
lol! I’ve wasted so many like that!
Me: Are you sure? Are you sure the roll’s gone?”
Brother: Pretty sure.
Me: Not just the few I exposed…the whole ROLL???
lol
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July 7th, 2015 at 1:45 pm
Then you still develop the whole roll just in case lol happy days, I still have several old developing tanks in my attic, well they may come in handy one day lol
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July 7th, 2015 at 1:49 pm
Haha! You’ll be the next Vivian Maier with trunks full of undeveloped rolls.
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July 7th, 2015 at 2:00 pm
lol just don’t tell my wife :-O
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July 7th, 2015 at 3:42 pm
:-D Summertime75 and Bowlersandhighcollars, very recognizable! Great photo!
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July 7th, 2015 at 3:51 pm
lol. With 35mn we were more careful of the pictures we took too. :)
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July 7th, 2015 at 4:10 pm
Even more so with a 120 – 21/4 square negatives and only 12 on a roll. I could never understand why there was 35mm or 16mm and yet the others were 21/4 square, 4×5 or 8×10 inches, odd system
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July 7th, 2015 at 4:26 pm
So odd you lost me…lol. I’m a child of the eighties. All I remember are the 35mm rolls. lol
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