Album Found Photographs from Deborah Lundbech

A Little Italian Easter Baby

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:32:58 +0000

One year, 2 months and 2 days.
I can’t read the surrounding words, though - can anyone help?

Below is the back of the photo card with the same message.

Embossed on the front:
International Art Studio
145 Manhatten Ave
Brooklyn, N.Y.

133/365

Leroy Horton, Age 11 months

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:39:06 +0000

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Purchased at an antique store in Bristol, VT
The imprint on the front reads:
106 Stephenson St.
"Smith"
Freeport, Ill. (Illinois)

Photo on cardboard - non-standard size.

129/365

Cleone & Kenneth

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:03:16 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: STRANGE OR UNUSUAL
For the week of: April 6 to April 12, 2026.

It’s not the (probable) twins, it’s not the extremely fancy wicker chair, it’s the large, tilting, apple “mask” surrounding the babies’ portrait that makes this RPPC "strange or unusual!”

Mark on the back of the postcard indicates a date from 1904 to the 1920s.

Pic a day: 97/365

Long Ago Little Boy

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:39:45 +0000

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His clothing looks like the American Civil War era - 1860s.
I think I found this in Essex Junction, Vermont - not remembering.

Pic a day: 94/365

Posing With Baby

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:25:00 +0000

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No other information.
Looking at the dress, the haircut, the pram, and the style of the photograph places this image somewhere in the 1920s.
Quite a few shadows of, and near, the photographer.
Added to my “Laundry on the Line” Album - among others

87/365

Space Cowgirl

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:22:07 +0000

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Reposted for the Vintage Photos Theme Park monthly theme of: COWBOYS AND/OR COWGIRL
This was posted earlier in the theme park in 2019 with weekly theme of: HOLD IT.

One of my top favorite found photographs!

Pic a day: 86/365

Dressed Up As Ole

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:11:06 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: SHADOW OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER
For the week of: FEBRUARY 16 - FEBRUARY 22, 2026

Written on back:
Helen - You can recognize her in the other pictures I guess. Dressed up as "Ole".
(written underneath in pencil: Maude Luelet [?]

I wonder if she is referring to Ole the engineer in the book “Choo Choo” by Virginia Lee Burton?

Pic a day: 47/365

Sepia Portrait c.1920s

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:24:34 +0000

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This is an oversize portrait with no information other than the stamp on the bottom right hand side that has the studio's name and address:

269 B'Way B'klyn Broadway Studio

I love the subtle, lovely tones of this sepia photograph. Obviously a high quality professional studio.
I would guess this is c. mid 1920s.
The top corners have been cut.
Found photo.

Pic a day: 37/365

Ruth Weld

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:41:54 +0000

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Found Photo.
Written on the back, in addition to her name:

Brookfield Junction, Conn.
Forty Acre Mountain

Cropped for detail. Original posted below.
Pic a day: 17/365

Elis. or Eliz. (Elizabeth) J. Caswell

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:14:38 +0000

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A gift from my brother and sister-in-law. Found in Massachusetts.
Framed, 5” by 8”. Written on the cardboard backing of the framing: Elis, (or Eliz,) J. Caswell.
Such a cozy interior, as well as a sweet-faced little girl!

Pic a day:14/365

Pensive

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:15:26 +0000

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Found Cabinet Card in Branford, CT, November, 2023
Pic a day, 11/365

Precarious House

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:56:44 +0000

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Posted for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: STRANGE BACKGROUND – REAL OR FROM A STUDIO
For the week of: JANUARY 5 - JANUARY 11, 2026

Looking at the clothing, I would date this photo c.1918 to mid-1920s. I could be wrong about this, but I believe that the style of house on the hill was most popular in the 1910s to the 1930s. So…here we have a fairly run of the mill picture of a mom (probably) with her two girls on Easter morning (probably) - with a new looking house, perched at the top of a hill and built apparently on the edge of a quarry or landslide.
???

Pic.a day: 7/365

Little Sweater Girl

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 05:42:38 +0000

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Found Carte de Visite (CDV) c.1880s. Don’t remember where I found this.
I wonder when knitting - and knitting for babies - became popular?
Written on the bottom front: W.E.Hurd Artist

Pic a day: 4/365.

To My Dearest Aunt

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:47:09 +0000

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"From Barbara."
Found photo, Ferrisburgh, Vermont. 2013

Pic a day. 2/365

My goal for Ipernity this year is to try to up my contributions to one a day.
I love being part of the Ipernity community (and have no plans to leave it) but I do miss the large community of vintage photograph fans on other sites, where I was inclined to comment and post more frequently.
I generally post once a week here (and treasure and deeply appreciate my fellow Vintage Photo Theme Park cohorts and fans!) but that amount of posting is not enough to put a dent in my large backlog of all kinds of photos. So I’m hoping to do a daily posting of “stuff” to get working on that, including vintage *and* family pre and post 1979, (the VPTP limits.)
Cheers, all!

Weybridge Family Christmas, 1950s

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:51:08 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS - Any kind of end-of-year holiday gathering, celebration, or decoration.
(For the week of December15 - December 21, 2025)
This is one of 12 photographs I bought at a second hand store in Bristol, Vt about a year ago. The owner purchased them from a house sale in Weybridge - about 15 miles from here. (Bristol).
Some of them have random comments written on them, one of which tells me that the youngest girl is named Claudia.
Think I’ll put these in an new album. I’m tempted to take these over to the Weybridge Town Clerk to see if anyone can tell me more about this family!

Vermont School c.1900

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:39:52 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: CROWDS, THRONGS, OR HORDES (A big bunch of people.)
For the week of: December 1 - December 7, 2025.
This was taken somewhere in Vermont, but the name of the school or town is unknown.

Seeing Double

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:51:11 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: SEEING DOUBLE (a photo with two people or things that look the same)
For the week of: November 24 - November 30, 2025
Found photo but I forget where it was from.
Strangely, there is only one name on the back - which perhaps suggests these are not twins but cousins and only one of them is not to the recipient of the card.
On the back:
Julia 21/2 yrs old.

Seven Stairsteps

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:22:54 +0000

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Uploaded for the vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: JUST FOR FUN
October 27 - Nov 2, 2025
Found just yesterday in Essex Junction, Vermont at an antique emporium.
I will be adding this and others I just found to my sadly neglected Groups, this one obviously, VINTAGE STAIRSTEP PHOTOS..
There is some badly faded and damaged pencil writing on the back of this cut RPPC - but I think it’s questioning whether to include the whole group or to just crop the two in front. If that’s it, it fits with the arrow and arc notation on the front.
Anyway, it’s a fun group of kids enjoying their posing and I think it fits the theme pretty well.

Proud of Her Outfit

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:54:05 +0000

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Uploaded for the vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: DRESSED UP (for Halloween, to go out, on a special occasion, etc.).
October 19 - October 26, 2025.
Perhaps this little girl is posing in an outfit someone sent her as a present - showing them how cute she looks!
I find this photo puzzling. It’s very high glossy with rounded corners and seems almost plastic -y. The little girl appears to me (hair, outfit, shoes,) to be (like the photo format) late 50s, early 60s - and yet those cars in the background look as though they’re from the 1920s and 30s.
Is she out an antique car show? Or what??
I bought this in Bristol, Vermont in 2024. No information.

Ben F. Prall, Age 4 Years

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 23:53:33 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: STUDIO PORTRAIT
(September 1 - September 7, 2025)
Cropped and lightened for detail. The original photo is shown below.
His name and age is written on the back as well as the following information:
B’Day March 29, 1897
Born Scranton, Penn. [Pennsylvania]
Mother: Mary Maxwell Prall
Father: Walter E. Prall

Purchased in Branford, Connecticut, November, 2023