‘Dock Rats’ 1910s RPPC. Private Collection. Click for larger image.
Three best street lookin’ pals hanging out by the docks, one smoking a cigarette. Oh, those idle hands must be up to no good!
RPPC: AZO 1907-1914
Tag Archives: 1900s-1910s
Cadets, high collars and a camera
cadets and suited men on porch. RPPC. Private Collection.
These American military school cadets are sitting on the steps of a (fraternity house?) front porch with other men, young and older, in civilian suits. I wonder who they were and what they were to each other. The man to the far right is holding a box camera with both hands.
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RPPC: AZO 1907-1014
American Gothic
Circa 1910 American couple. RPPC. Private Collection.
This picture reminds me of the famous painting done twenty years later in 1930. This beautiful couple is on farm ground with a wagon and horse peeking to the left and another wagon, barn and house to the right (I see the barn being red). The man is dressed in a light colored Norfolk suit, and his wife is in a simple white cotton or linen dress with the large buttons going down the skirt. She’s wearing square buckle shoes and he the ever-fashionable Victorian boots with the side buttons.
A beautiful picture of a couple living in the American countryside.
RPPC: AZO 1907-1914
Laundry duty blows -ie- it’s a woman’s job and I shouldn’t have to do this
“Only 5 more sheets, boys!” Funny laundry duty RPPC. Private Collection.
Atta girl! This photograph of a grinning lady sitting down on a rocking chair with a baseball bat at the ready, and with her eyes on the two men of the house doing the laundry! Too much!
Now let’s take a moment to appreciate how good we have it today with the wonderful invention that is the laundry machine. And men do more house shores today than they ever did before (yet somehow it’s still a challenge to get dear husband to help folding clothes).
RPPC: AZO 1907-1914
Edward ‘Big Ed’ McKenna on a swing
Edward McKenna on a swing. RPPC. Private Collection.
A quaint photo of a lad nicknamed ‘Big Ed’ posing on a swing with his creased hat he forgot to straighten up, and a pair of gloves in his left hand. He’s wearing a dark colored scarf around the neck instead of the typical collar and tie
‘Big Ed’ seemed big by yesterday’s standards probably because he was tall. This RPPC has a note Ed died.
His name + note
RPPC: AZO 1907-1914
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