Contributions of the group Old Photographs

Frances

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:07:20 +0000

My cousin going to her Junior Prom. My mother had sewn the dress for her. c. 1968.
I took this with my Polaroid Swinger camera.
Best present ever!

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Two Boys with Lots of Toys

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:37:04 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of birthday presents.

There's no birthday card or cake, but I suspect that this undated photo shows a display of birthday gifts on the coffee table in front of two boys. One of them -- perhaps the younger boy in the white shirt -- is presumably the birthday boy.

Toys on the table include a car, airplane, boat, rocket, and two pull-string flying propellers. There's also an Erector Young Builder's Set (Gilbert Set No. 10021) with packaging that features an illustration of two boys assembling a robot. Next to the Erector set is a container of Davis Pick-up Sticks manufactured by the Davis Toy Corp., Brooklyn, N.Y.

There are two books and a stamp album on the table. One book is The Bible Story, Volume 10, by Arthur S. Maxwell, and the other is How to Tell Time: A Little Golden Activity Book (1957), by Jane Werner Watson. George A. Tlamsa was the editor of My First Stamp Album (Minkus Publications, 1960), and a packet of 130 foreign stamps is visible in front of the album.

I'm not sure what the boy on the right is holding, but is that a barrel of a rifle in the hands of the boy on the left? Could that be another birthday gift?

See also the full version of this photo.

Anticipation

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:21:54 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: BIRTHDAY PRESENTS
For the week of May 11 - May 17, 2026
On the way home from a vacation we stopped at a real old junk store in Newport, New Hampshire, (although I did find a really sweet hand mirror amongst thousands of really junky junks!)
BUT on the checkout counter was a box marked FREE with some really cool vintage photos - so I picked out a bunch.
This was one of them.

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Florida House, 1930s or 40s

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:28:16 +0000

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Written on the back:

This was taken before we had the sod in. The four windows are the living room. We get a good breeze. It is on the east side.

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Man with Long Beard, Valley Falls, Kansas

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:44:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of hippies (certified or imitation).

Photographer: "[Arthur] Mason's Art Studio, Valley Falls, Kansas."

A nineteenth-century cabinet card photo of an unidentified man with a long beard. If he were alive today, perhaps his beard would have qualified him as a hippie or possibly a hipster.

For other hip longbeards, see Man with Beard, Topeka, Kansas, Rasputin and the Amorphous Enigma, and Benjamin Purnell, Founder of the House of David, Benton Harbor, Michigan.

RPPC “Hippie"

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:46:52 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: HIPPIES (CERTIFIED OR IMITATION)
For the week of May 4 - May 10, 2026
This is a Real Photo Postcard with the AZO print on the back indicating a date from 1924 to 1949. So I guess he is an “imitation hippie”.
I have to say though that I still cringe when I hear the word “hippie”.
Although for convenience I have identified myself in later years as having been one - nobody I knew at the time would ever have used that word to refer to their circle. It was regarded scornfully as out of touch mainstream media or clueless older folks labelling!
We were “the counter-culture” or “freaks” as in Abbie Hoffman “fly your freak flag”. Or sometimes ‘back-to-the- landers” but definitely, definitely not “hippies!”

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Ruth and Lynn In the Daffodils

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:49:53 +0000

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St James Park, London.
1972.
Happy birthday to Ruth today in 2026!

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Train Ride

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:15:54 +0000

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Not the greatest photo - but a cool memory.
My cousin and I had saved up babysitting money and come back to Britain eight years after our families emigrated to the States.
Somewhere on a train from Cardiff to northern Wales the train driver (engineer?) (conductor?) must have heard that American teens were on board and asked us if we wanted to come up front to the engine to see as we crossed the viaduct. (I don’t remember exactly where this was.)
I think he told us he wasn’t really supposed to have passengers up in the front.
Anyway, while we were up there, loving the experience, he told us that the line would very soon be closed and explained that branch lines were being closed all over Britain.
It seemed really sad to us, but I’m sure we had no real understanding of how that would affect so many small villages and towns.
Thank you to that long ago, kind train man!

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Girl with a Spinning Wheel and Dogs with a Cart

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:40:21 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of a dog and a tree.

In this photo, a little girl sits in front of a spinning wheel next to two large dogs who are hitched to a cart. A tree is visible behind the girl, and there's also a fence and smaller trees or bushes in the background.

This is a divided-back real photo postcard with "Made in Canada" printed on the other side. There's no message, address, or stamp on the verso, but the type of Velox stamp box design on the back may indicate that this card dates to between 1923 and 1939.

In a different photo, the same girl, spinning wheel, dogs, and cart appear, but there's also a boy sitting in the cart and the dogs are adorned with hats, glasses, and pipes (see Spinning a Tale of Dogs in Glasses).

I have to do some more checking, but I believe that these photos may have originated in Quebec, Canada, where spinning wheels were manufactured and dog carts were used in rural areas.

Those Daring Young Men with Their Jaunty Bicycles

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:27:04 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the monthly theme of CDVs and cabinet cards.

A nineteenth-century cabinet card photo of two young fellows posing with their bicycles in a studio located in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. See also a cropped version for a better view of the guys and their bikes.

Names written on the back of the photo: "Adam J. Althouse & Calvin P. Muhey."

Stamped in ink on the verso: "W. S. Anspach, Photographer, Cor. 3rd & Lehman Sts., Lebanon."

Chairman of the Baby Board

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:09:29 +0000

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My brother, Nicholas.
Early 1957, Walthamstow, England.

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A Dog and a Tree

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:04:54 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: A DOG AND A TREE
For the week of April 27 - May 3, 2026

“1936” is written across the top and “Richard Daws” written on the back of this snapshot.
No other information given.
Part of a collection of photographs I bought from a woman in Burlington, Vermont.

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A Joyous Picnic Outing, August 1913

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:55:04 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of food.

Caption at the bottom of the photo: "A Joyous Outing." Date written vertically on the tree in the background: "Aug. 1913."

A photo of twenty-six men and women who have gathered around a picnic blanket covered with food and place settings. See a cropped version of the photo for a better view of the food.

This is a divided-back real photo postcard with no message, address, or postmark on the other side. The Cyko stamp box ("Cyko - Place Postage Stamp Here") printed on the verso indicates a date between 1907 and the 1920s, which matches the August 1913 date written on the front.

Seven Stairsteps

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:42:03 +0000

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Another example to add to my Vintage Stairsteps group!
Given to me by a library patron. a small snapshot with no identifying information.

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Men In A Row

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:59:09 +0000

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From an album given to me by a library patron while I worked as a Library Director.
I don’t know what type of uniform the men are wearing (army?) but it appears that this is a barracks or camp.
The album is World War 1 era and a little later.

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Maine, 1979

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:23:49 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: FOOD.
For the week of April 20 - April 26. 2026.
My first vacation with my boyfriend/husband to be.
We were camping on the beach or close to it, and we would mostly eat at fish-shacks, where you could get fresh caught seafood - fairly cheap, fried, and lots of it.
Yum!

This is a cut Polaroid.

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Ruth and Sara on Board the L-21 Submarine, August 25, 1917

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:44:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of fancy studio backdrops.

A novelty photo with two young women in sailor costumes. The elaborate painted backdrop depicts an ocean of heavy waves with two ships billowing smoke on the horizon. A biplane is barely visible in the sky above them. The painted foreground features a submarine labeled "L 21 U.S." The submarine's hatch is open, its periscope is up, and it's flying an American flag.

Submarine hull: "L 21 U.S."

Handwritten caption: "R. Dodd. Sara Miller. 8-25-1917." Writing on the back also identifies the young women as "Ruth Dodd" on the left and "Sara Miller" on the right with the date given a second time as "8/25/1917."

For a similar real photo postcard, see Daddy on the Deck of the F-6 Submarine.

Sandy, Waiting To Get In

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:02:43 +0000

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Seymour Road, Leyton, London, England.
Photo taken by my mother, 1949.

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CDV Relative?

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:58:03 +0000

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An unknown person (relative?) from the Springfield, Vermont group in the Halkard/Grimshaw album.
I think this resembles my brother-in-law, Peter.
My husband thinks this looks nothing at all like his brother. : )

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September 1965

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:22:06 +0000

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My mother and brother “on the street where we lived”.
Fair Haven, Connecticut.
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