Contributions of the group Old Photographs

Damaged Large Photograph

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:32:09 +0000

Appears to be a home-developed photograph.
Unknown date and location.
Found photograph, Ferrisburgh, Vermont.

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Beanie Boy With Taylor Tot

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:40:31 +0000

Found Photo, Burlington, 2023
An unknown child wearing a beanie hat with a classic (I think) Taylor Tot Stroller behind him.
Or perhaps it’s a knock off? - I’ll find out in Rick’s Group, Taylor Tot!
I think this is probably the same little child as in the Easter picture I posted several years ago.
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Central Pennsylvania Gospel Band

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:40:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of bands (music groups).

An unused real photo postcard of the fifty-seven members of the Central Pennsylvania Gospel Band, circa 1951.

See also an announcment of an appearance by The Central Pennsylvania Gospel Band, Roxbury, Pa., June 23, 1957.

Chris

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:17:22 +0000

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Chester, VT
1980

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The Joys of Sharing A Good Book

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:01:19 +0000

Deborah Lundbech has posted:

Found photo.
Burlington, Vernont.

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Steamboat on the Street, Cleveland, Ohio, 1913

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:57:46 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

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

This is a real photo exaggeration postcard showing a steamboat with smoke billowing from its smokestack as it navigates through the surging floodwaters on a city street. The water has stranded some pedestrians at the curb, where they were evidently waiting to cross the street.

Although the location isn't identified, one clue is the business name stamped in the lower right-hand corner: "The Dodd Rogers Co., Kodaks and Cameras."

According to the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, the Dodd-Rogers Co. operated in Cleveland under that name between 1906 and 1914. Just before the business changed its name to Dodd Co. in 1914, the Great Flood of 1913 inundated Cleveland and affected the rest of Ohio as well as other states (see The 1913 Flood: "Ohio’s Greatest Weather Event", an article by Sarah White on the Cleveland Historical site).

Other exaggeration postcards appeared after the flood. One was captioned The Big Flood in Cleveland, and a second one also used the the same title.

Although I haven't matched this photo with a specific street and it doesn't bear a date, I believe that it was created in 1913 as a humorous reaction to the flood in Cleveland.

This is an divided-back real photo postcard with an Azo stamp box (four corner triangles pointing up) on the other side, which suggests a time frame—1907 to 1918—that covers the year of the flood. The card is unused with no message, address, or postmark on the other side.

Trafalgar Square, London

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:55:46 +0000

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1972. Taken with a Kodak Instamatic from the 1960s.

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Garden, Greater London, 1955

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:41:50 +0000

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Geoffrey, the son of my mother’s friend, and me, looking very wary of him.
At this age I was not around many children - I was pretty shy.

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HFF to all!

Curbside

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:48:27 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of CURBSIDE
For the week of: July 13th - July 19th, 2026.
We are newly moved to Rayleigh, Essex from Walthamstow, London. I am sitting on the curb with David, the little boy who lived up the road. He was probably less than two years younger than I was - but always regarded by me as “a baby”.
To the left of me is a car owned by an older couple - one of the very few cars on the street. (I have a feeling one of them took this picture.)
Once they took me for a ride out of town somewhere.
I’d probably only be in a car a few times at that point in time..
It was such a treat.

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Sending You My Picture So You Will Fall in Love

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:24:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the topic of nautical.

The handwritten message on the other side of this real photo postcard says, "I['m] senting [sending] you my pitcher [picture] so you will fall in love with me. Your friend, A.M., USS Mercury."

There's no stamp or postmark on the verso, but the card is addressed to Miss Ida Nelson, Lakeport, N.H.

Printed on the other side: "This Photo can be Enlarged or Duplicates made at the Modern Studio, 46 Sands St., Brooklyn, N.Y."

This is a divided-back photo postcard with a type of Azo stamp box (four corner triangles with two pointing up and two pointing down) that suggests a date as early as 1917 to 1930.

Helen, 1970

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:20:11 +0000

Deborah Lundbech has posted:

Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: NAUTICAL
For the week of July 5th - July 12th, 2026.
I was taking pics of my little cousin, Helen, who had just turned 4, (I had recently turned 16) when she spontaneously gave me a “sailor’s” salute!
I was so charmed.
We are on the Hudson River, taking the boat from NYC to Westpoint, NY. showing the beautiful Hudson Valley to our visiting English friends.

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Cheryl and Glen, 1971

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:35:12 +0000

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My friend Cheryl, pulling a funny face and my boyfriend (Cheryl’s cousin) 1971.
The fences are across the road - a little hard to see.
This is a Polaroid Swinger photo - and hasn’t stayed as well preserved as they often do.
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HFF everyone!

Skiff Decorated for a Fourth of July Regatta, ca. 1914

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:56:04 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the topic of Fourth of July (flags, fireworks, patriotic, freedom, red-white-blue, barbeques, etc.).

"This is my skiff decorated for the regatta 4th July celebrations" is the description written on the other side of this photo.

This is divided-back real photo postcard with no address, date, stamp box, or postmark on the verso. The message written on the back of the card, however, includes some questions about events leading up to World War I, so it's likely that the photo dates to 1914, the year the war began (see Ultimatum of July 23, 1914, for background information).

See also the full version of this photo postcard.

This is the message written across the back of the card (I made it easier to read by creating paragraphs, but the text is the same):

This is my skiff decorated for the regatta 4th July celebrations.
L. Brown

Forgive me for not writing. It is just laziness on my part. My correspondence has got in an awful shape. I am sending this card to show I have not forgotten. I will get a letter written someday.

Here are some funny questions that sometimes enter my head. My socialist [Pro-Ger?].

--What was the Kaiser scared of even more than fighting all Europe?
--What big convention was to be held in Vienna one week after war started?
--Did not Servia [Serbia] accede to all points except one or two, and wished to arbitrate?
--Why was the war rushed?

Car Festooned with Flags, Palace Garage, Fremont, Ohio, ca. 1920

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:36:04 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the monthly topic of real photo postcards.

This is a photo of two men seated in an early automobile decorated with flags for a Fourth of July parade or some other patriotic celebration.

The distinctive "Palace Garage" sign (behind the telephone pole on the left), the "Garage" sign (above the flag at the back of the car), and the design of the building all match a 1920 photo of the Palace Garage in Fremont, Ohio, that appeared as part of a "History Spotlight" feature in the Fremont News-Messenger (you may encounter a paywall if you try the link).

This is a divided-back real photo postcard with a Cyko stamp box ("Cyko - Place Postage Stamp Here") printed on the back (there's no name, address, message, or postmark). This stamp box design indicates a date between 1907 and the 1920s, which corresponds to the date of the photo published in the newspaper.

July 4th - 1919

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:20:03 +0000

Deborah Lundbech has posted:

Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme: FOURTH OF JULY
For the week of June 29 - July 5, 2026.

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Summer Afternoon in the Park

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:03:53 +0000

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Taken c.1913
Michigan Album.

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Photo Array

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:58:12 +0000

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It’s not actually wonky - in real life. Don’t know why it looks that way.
Some favorite “Found” vintage photos.
Put up on the wall in the vain hope a friend will see them and exclaim, “How wonderful - now I know why you have this hobby - I’m going to start collecting, too!”
: D

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Sanford S. Kilton

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:59:54 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park *monthly* theme of: Real Photo Post Cards (RPPC)
This was taken at the Harlem Photo Studio, 274 West 120th Street, New York, NY.
Written on the back:
Sanford S Kilton, Aged 2 yrs & 9 mths:
The stamp on the back indicates a time range of 1907 - 1915

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A Cake and a Couple of Mugs, 1964

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:59:04 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of in a doorway.

Handwritten description on the other side of the photo: "A cake and a couple of mugs."

A man and a woman stand in (the vicinity of) a doorway as they silently contemplate the cake on the table in front of them. Perhaps it's their wedding anniversary, but they don't seem too excited about it.

On Holiday, July, 1949

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:58:52 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: IN A DOORWAY
For the week of: June 22 - June 28, 2026
My Uncle Les and cousin, John.
Picture taken by my mother, who went on holiday with her sister and family to Jaywick, Essex.

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