1920s-1930s snapshot. Private Collection.
A slice of life on a picture! This laughing man is all well dressed in a three-piece with a boutonniere. Perhaps he was at a wedding and this low river bed nearby got more and more tempting as the hot day rolled by. Those stream and river beds are slippery too. With a hand in pocket and the other holding shoes, he left no room for a wrong step..!
The 1880s fireman. Tintype. Private Collection.
A beautiful tintype in excellent shape of an American fireman posing with his horn and cigar. This picture captured his uniform in crisp details.
I just so love the ornate speakerphone-like horn with the mouthpiece and sling. I wish I had a time machine to see him shouting in it for people to get out of the way. :) And he’s wearing a ribbon on the shirt representing some kind of event. The CW must have stood for the town he worked for.
All in all, a very handsome fireman who posed splendidly some hundred and thirty years ago.
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.
1860s ‘uncle’ John Randolph. CDV. Private Collection.
This handsome fellow with the small smile came on a CDV with the beautiful design around the vignette portrait. His name is written in pencil on the back. Was he of the famed Randolph family of Virginia?
I wonder if his bowtie was a patriotic red and white.
John Randolph CDV with the intricate chandelier-like frame design.
Violinist in the snow. RPPC. Private Collection.
This musician in his late teens has impossibly light eyes, accentuated by the bright lights of the snow covered yard or street. A beautiful portrait of him posing with his instrument.
A close up:
Detail. Private Collection.
RPPC: AZO 1904-1918
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