Two on a bench. Private Collection.
If you’re smiling on a tintype, you’re halfway to joining my collection. This is a set of late period ones, I’d say 1910s-1920, of very relaxed and smiling friends posing together on a bench. The two on the first are also on the second, accompanied by their two other friends. The gent to the right on the first is smiling so wide on both, he really got into it!
Five boys, no girl. Cabinet card. Private Collection.
I’m sure she would have liked to have a daughter too, but that wasn’t part of God’s plan now, was it?
The father looks mellow in comparison. I’m not sure what he’s holding in his hand. It looks like the back of a cabinet card.
The brothers don’t look far apart from each other. I like how the photographer arranged this family by height, taking the photo horizontally with a white backdrop and the parents in the middle.
Photographer: Clinkenbeard. Palace Photo Car. Blank back.
George Trimbathe and his two babies. 1910s. RPPC. Private Collection.
Well, that escalated quickly. :) It was all fun and games until…I’m being cheeky but George looks a bit worn out!
This young father was obviously proud to pose with his two back-to-back bundles of joy. They’re so cute too. The boy’s sporting a mohawk. As long as mommy is around all is manageable.
IDed: George Trimbathe. Masury Station. Pennsylvania. Addressed to Miss Alice Smith.
RPPC: blank back
High Above Cleveland. RPPC. Private Collection.
I absolutely love this funny and interesting picture. The composition is great, showing a real view of Cleveland on the bottom half with the ‘plane’ on top. The loose wheel and the feigned expression of concentration on the gent holding it made me laugh. And the smiling one on the left getting into it, pointing down to the ‘city below’. Too much.
Only one sitter is IDed: Sam Hulting on the right. I found out a bit about him. He was born in 1894 in Sweden and was a first generation immigrant who settled in Gary Indiana. He married a lady named Amanda a year his junior, and in 1923 he would have an only child, a daughter he named Eleanor. This picture was taken in the 1910s when Sam was in his early twenties.
Photographer: Pinch’s Novelty Photo Postals. 226 Superior N. W., Cleveland. Ohio.
RPPC: AZO 1904-1918
1920s boys in cap. RPPC. Private Collection.
These teens in newsboy caps look like they were a close knit group, the two sitting in the front may have been brothers. The pose of the two in the back is an interesting choice too.
RPPC: ARTURA 1910-1924
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