Category Archives: Types of Photographs

July 15, 2015

Romance in the Moonlight – series of 4

By C.E. Ryan

“Psss…don’t stop with the necklace!” – Private collection.

This man’s got a dangerous look on the postcard above. Must be that creepy little thing on that chair whispering things into his head! :) I didn’t even notice it until I scanned the pictures. Yikes!

If I saw just one of the postcards instead of all four, I’d think an artist painted the backdrop. Instead, this photoshoot looks like it happened by a real seaside under the moonlight. You can see the moon going up the sky, the changing clouds and a few sailboats passing by. The lighting was expertly done, because this really does look like an indoor studio setting…or was it a photographic trick with a film playing behind them, the couple placed behind the projected screen?

Foto Ars was an Italian publishing company.

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July 14, 2015

Sad Bouquet Boy

By C.E. Ryan
sad-bouquet-boy-detail

detail of 1/6th plate tintype. Private Collection.

Quick, somebody give this sad Victorian gent a hug! Doesn’t he look like he needed one? Maybe he missed his love. What a romantic with his bouquet in hand! He had very pretty eyes too…and the bowler fits him just right.

This is a very beautiful tintype too, the darks are satin and the lighter areas matte. The scan is not doing it justice.

1880s-1890s tintype.

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July 14, 2015

1968 Samuel Parker in Vietnam

By C.E. Ryan
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Sam on the right with his unit, Vietnamese children and women.

I said it before, I’ll make a few timeline exceptions for family and when the pictures are worth sharing. Yet these are still vintage and Sam was brave. Samuel Parker isn’t blood related but he was a medic in my husband’s regiment, and as such he is my husband’s brother.

I told him I collect vintage pictures of gents and have this blog I then showed him. He smiled and said “I wasn’t too bad once upon a time. I have pictures if you want.” Of course I didn’t refuse the offer. He gave me copies of pictures from the Vietnam war in 1968 and these are great. Sam was 17 when he enlisted so he was 18 on the pictures.

I warned him: “Heh, you know I’m going to scan these and put them on my blog!” I was only half joking but he replied, “Put me on it then!” to which my husband had a chuckle, turned to me and said “Oh, here we go!”

I told Sam he’s off my timeline by eight years but “yes I will! Just know you’ll get into wordpress and tumblr jungle this time!” He got giddy!

Sam has a passion for horses. After the war he dedicated the next decades of his life to them.

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July 13, 2015

Crackerjacks cute

By C.E. Ryan

5″ x 4″ portrait of 1940s sailor. Private Collection.

Well, what have we here, a cute as a button American sailor in white crackerjacks with the square knot neckerchief and dixie cup hat? Why, yes!

I guessed this one to be from the 40s by the style of picture portrait. The truth is this uniform is still to this day a service whites. This enlisted sailor could be from the 50s too, but I don’t see this picture to be more recent.

A little interesting factoid: sailors have a tradition of placing a coin in the center of the Neckerchief knot so if they get lost at sea they will have money to pay the ferryman across the river Styx.

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I have this feeling a good section of my tumblr followers will especially appreciate this one. ;)~

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July 13, 2015

Who cares about the picture? My hand’s terrible!

By C.E. Ryan
Card game. Snapshot. Private Collection.

Card game. Snapshot. Private Collection.

The gent on the left looks like he’s much too focused on his hand to pay attention to what’s going on. The group picture? What? I’m about to lose my shirt! Either that or it was so good he wasn’t going to ruin the mojo. ;)

The one in the middle looks charismatic. There’s always one.

This is about RPPC size but the paper’s flimsier. There’s some glue residue from being in an album.

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