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.
Taken February 5th, 1909 in Grand Junction, CO. RPPC. Private Collection.
This is one of my favorite RPPCs. Look at this grown-up man holding a teddy bear in his arm with the unlit cigar in mouth. And then the note on the back; his friend “Pooch” admitting he and his pals felt fine when they had this taken.
I think the note on the front says: We are looking for the Big Cap. Nothing to[sic] good for the Juish ([sic] Jewish. The one holding the teddy bear is my guess. Bad speller!).
I think the ‘Big Cap’ is the Liberty Cap in Grand Junction, CO. It wasn’t going to feel too good for his pal getting a bit too merry before the impending hike. Oh, the adventure!
The happy fellow on the left even positioned the teddy bear’s head and arm to wave at the camera!
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RPPC info: AZO 1907-1914
It’s been done before on this tintype!
This one got sold for a pretty penny even though it has writings on the top left corner (I edited out). It is a very beautiful and unique cabinet card of a man posing with his greyhound. I can see why this card would command very high prices: the image it clear and clean and the man is handsome, well dressed and is wearing a white hat you don’t see often. The dog is posing too, which adds to the desirability. A great photograph!
Photographer: Edsall. New York.
1860’s working class little boys. CDV. Private Collection.
These two seem about the same age but they don’t look like twins, fraternal twins maybe? If you look closely there is a contrast of personality between them. The one to the left looks like he ran everywhere and climbed everything in sight while the other looks more calm and poised. The unbuttoned jacket, the couple of stains on the trousers…the left one looks a bit more shabby than the other one, probably the most terrible of the two whose parents couldn’t keep clean for more than an hour! He has a furrowed brow, probably questioning the photographer’s use of a body stand for him and not his brother!
There’s no expensive furniture on this one, the photographer choosing instead to hang a flowered drape from the ceiling down over a small round table.
Photographer: A. Chapman. Oneonta, N.Y.
Circa 1892. Cabinet Card. Private Collection.
I was on a frustrating hunt for a caped gentleman and was happy to finally find this fellow (I don’t know why those are hard to find!). There’s this cloudy effect going on and it looks like it is original of the photo, but it could be some discoloration due to time. Intentional or not, I do think it makes this cabinet card look like the man was standing outside on a foggy morning! The gentleman is IDed as Dean Smith on the back.
A close up of Mr. Smith, and a little more on J.H. Kent the photographer after the cut.
Bowlers And High Collars 