Category Archives: Types of Subjects

May 2, 2015

The happiest private on earth

By C.E. Ryan
3 women and an Army sergeant. RPPC. Private Collection.

A WWII Army private and three beautiful ladies. RPPC. Private Collection.

Look at this happy chap! It’s the uniform I tell you. This second World War era gentleman Army soldier is surrounded by three fetching ladies and it seems to have put him in a good mood! Each girl looks to be of a different ethnicity too.

He’s wearing the Pacific Ocean Areas patch which was blue with 12 white stars and a red arrow. This photo was taken between 1942 and 1945.

Unfortunately there are no names to identify this brave soldier and his photogenic lady friends!

RPPC: EKC. 1939-1950.

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May 1, 2015

Smoking in a fedora

By C.E. Ryan

Candid

Candid

A candid photo I’ve seen and digitally fixed up a bit. What’s more stereotypical of the 30s than a man in a fedora smoking a cigarette?

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April 30, 2015

Turn of the Century French couple Mr. and Mrs. Georges

By C.E. Ryan
RPPC. Private Collection.

Edwardian French couple. Dagoreau RPPC. Private Collection.

A gorgeous couple mailing from Charente, France. Bertha is sporting the “Gibson look” so in vogue at the time with the extra small waist and pinned hair in a loose bun. Her husband is classically dapper in the matching starched frock suit with the creased pants and high collar. The photographer logo is embossed on the bottom right.

Postcards were mailed so quickly they were the equivalent of today’s text messages.

We're coming home tomorrow Tuesday. To cherished friendship. Best wishes from Charentes. Bertha Georges

We’re coming home tomorrow Tuesday. To cherished friendship. Best wishes from Charentes.
Bertha Georges

Photographer: Dagoreau. France.

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April 30, 2015

1880s tough cowboy in a straw hat

By C.E. Ryan
Tintype detail

Tintype detail

I spent way too much on tintypes and other miscellaneous photos this week, so I had to see this one slip by. Nooo! The dilemma of every collector: gotta make choices.
Ah, but what a guy! And he’s wearing cowboy boots; a country folk! Tintype guys with attitudes do make great sitters!

Click for larger image.

Click for larger image.

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April 30, 2015

A romantic postcard: Love Thy Neighbor

By C.E. Ryan
RPPC. Private Collection.

Posted 1908. RPPC. Private Collection.

“And I shall follow this commandment to the letter!”

This is such a sweet real photo postcard of a would-be couple embracing across a fence they wish weren’t between them.

And this is an Edwardian mass produced one where the gentleman isn’t wearing high contrast eye makeup and rouge on the lips.

Photographer: The Rotograph Company. New York.

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