Contributions of the group Vintage Group Photos

A Joyous Picnic Outing, August 1913

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

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.

Off The Bus

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:21:51 +0000

Deborah Lundbech has posted:

Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: ON THE BUS OR OFF THE BUS
For the week of: March 30 to April 5, 2026.
My dear, beloved Nana is the woman wearing the light colored hat, second from the right.
Titled “The Ladies!” in our family album.
See below for “The Gentlemen!"
My granddad was a printer at Waterlows in London and somehow the retirement community that they moved to in Basildon in their late 70s was connected to his pension, (I think.)
It must have been a hard move for them, leaving the London flat they had lived in together for forty years.
Anyway, here two photos of them, c.1968, off the bus, at this community, going on a bus trip to somewhere in the southeast of England.

Pic a day: 89/365

Granddad is the 6th from the right with a plaid tie.

Love Lane Sports Team, Rayleigh, Essex, England. c.1962

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:11:33 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: SCHOOLHOUSES AND/OR SCHOOLCHILDREN
Posted for the week of: March 16 - March 22, 2026
My cousin Ruth thinks that this is probably the Love Lane Junior School Track Team.
Needless to say, I am not featured in this photograph - not having any athletic gifts whatsoever!
Below are the children whose names I remember from other times.
Back row from left: Ruth Brown, 5th Megan Davis.6th Lynne or Jennifer?, 7th Anne Cook (Prefect)
2nd row: Keith MacMillan, Linda Whiting, Theresa Castleton, Jennifer ? 10th child, Lynn Castleton,(Prefect) furthest boy, Malcolm
Front row: Unknowns

75/365

A Hearty Party

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:58:14 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of guess what's going on (you know but viewers have to guess).

Photographer Charles H. Venus (1872-1959), of New Berlin, Union County, Pennsylvania, took this picture of twelve men and eight women at a get-together. The photo likely dates to the early twentieth century, and many of the participants are pretending to eat something that they're holding up to their mouths. I think I know what it is. Can you guess what they're eating?

For clues, see cropped versions of the left-hand side and the right-hand side of the photo and the handwritten message that's on the back of the photo.

What’s Going On?

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:23:12 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: GUESS WHAT'S GOING ON (you know but viewers have to guess)
(December 8 - 14, 2025)
Can you guess?

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.

City Band of York, Pennsylvania, 1915

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:18:02 +0000

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

Drumhead: “City Band of York, Pa."

Credit line: "Photo by M. J. Murnane, York, Pa., 1915."

Printed on the back: "M. J. Murnane, No. 227 W. Market St., York, Pa. At the Bridge."

This is a divided-back real photo postcard with an Azo stamp box design (four corner triangles pointing up) on the other side. The time frame of 1907 to 1918 is commonly associated with this type of design, and that matches the 1915 date of the photo.

The name of "Elwood Slaugenhaupt" -- he was born in 1917 and died in 2000, according to Find A Grave -- is written on the other side. Slaugenhaupt would have been too young to have been one of the musicians pictured in the photo.

Beach Party, 1922

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:42:02 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: BEACH PARTY
(August 11 - August 17, 2025)
This is a party on the beach in Lynn ,Massachusetts in 1922. My husband’s father, Ron, is in the pram and Ron’s mother, Agnes, is fussing with him. They are very recent immigrants from England. This looks like a neighborhood birthday party that the new family has been invited to.

Cardiff Fun c.1939

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 01:20:56 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: VERY HAPPY PEOPLE
(July 21 - July 27, 2025)
My father is the guy in the center of the back row.
I’ve missed a few themes and this one is late.
I’m having a lot of trouble (various things wrong) trying to use Ipernity.
I know folks are working on it. (Thank you!)
Is everyone continuing to find it challenging or just specific populations? ie. Mac users? Non-Europeans? (Don’t know if this could possibly even be a thing.)

Dead Gamers, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, ca. 1909

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 02:51:08 +0000

Alan Mays has posted:

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of something beginning with D.

This is a real photo postcard with a divided back, and the type of Azo stamp box (with four corner triangles pointing up) printed on the other side suggests a date between 1907 and 1918. The text on the banner in the photo is "Dead Gamers, Orgd. 1898, Lancaster, Pa." The lettering on the drumhead is "Dead-Gamers, Lancaster, Pa." Both the banner and the drumhead include an illustration of a rooster that's saying, "Hur-ray."

The Dead Gamers' Camping Association was a fraternal group based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This same photo appeared in "The Lancaster That Was" column in the Lancaster Sunday News, October 22, 1978, p. B-2, with the headline, "When the Dead Gamers Were a Lively Bunch of Robust Lads."

The column said, "The club, replete with its band, is seen in [this] photo as it took its departure from the old Reading Railroad Station, at Prince and James Streets, in Aug. 1909 for an encampment at Bedford, Pa." I'm not sure this information is accurate, however, since Heather Truckenmiller's article, The Dead Gamers Camp in Allenwood, Pa., cites sources that place the Dead Campers in Allenwood, Union County, Pa., rather than Bedford, Pa., in August 1909.

"The Dead Gamers," the column explains, "were typical of a number of camping clubs that flourished in this community in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. The lads, we are told, were banded together as all-male social organizations . . . to eat, drink, and make merry with joyous song. And when the spirit moved them they took off for extended camping trips into the wilds."

A handwritten note on the other side of this photo identifies one of the men as "Eugene E. Gates, Sr.," and tells the viewer to "look for man with beard, dot on shirt, in centre (back) of [the group in the] photo."

For a better view of the group, see a cropped version of the photo. I also created an enlargement of the image that shows where Eugene E. Gates, Sr., is standing.

For another real photo postcard related to this camping association, see Caught Napping with the Dead Gamers.

Dorothy

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 02:20:46 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH “D”.
June 2 - June 8, 2025

Written on the back:
Camp AKIWA Camp for girls: Arden, Aug. 21 P.M. 1936

(Miss Dorothy Trac...?
1965 Benedict Ave N.Y.C.

Dear Dorothy,
Thought you would like a picture of our return to camp after that grand overnight hike we all had together.
Sincerely,
Georgeanna Iraney

Schoolchildren Posing Outside a School, Lebanon, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 03:55:10 +0000

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Forty-eight schoolchildren and a teacher pose for a photo outside a school. The photographer's name and location -- "Wolfe, Lebanon, Pa." -- is embossed on the border of the photo, but there's nothing else that identifies the school.

Grinning Schoolkid is third from left in the first row and Smirking Schoolkid is second from right, also in the first row.

See also close-up views of the left-hand side and the right-hand side of the photo.

The Lineup

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:32:04 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: HANDS IN POCKETS (Jan. 20 - Jan. 26 2025)
The first man on the left and the third man from the left certainly seem like brothers. Maybe the other two are brothers-in law?
From a family album given to me by a library patron.

Vintage Family Selfie

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 02:27:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of proud papa -- man holding an infant or small child.

The man at lower right is holding a string that he pulled to release the shutter on a camera to take this photo. This "string selfie" captured a portrait of himself and thirteen other members of his family, including a man and a woman at the front who are holding a small kid on their laps.

This is a real photo postcard with a divided back and a type of Azo stamp box (with four corner triangles pointing up) on the other side that suggests a possible date that may be as early as 1907 to 1918. There's no address, postmark, or message on the verso.

So Many People!

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:01:24 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: DOUBLE OR TRIPLE EXPOSURE
11/4 - 11/10/24
It makes me dizzy trying to sort them all out.

Saltair Beach, Souvenir Photo, July 7, 1918

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:49:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of adults at play.

Printed on the other side of this real photo postcard: "Souvenir of Saltair Beach, Season of 1918, Dave Levene, Manager."

Handwritten note on the verso: "Saltair, July 7, 1918. Eleanor & June."

On July 7, 1918, this group of about thirty-five adults and three or four kids stopped playing in the water long enough to pose for a picture at Saltair Beach, a resort located in Utah along the shore of the Great Salt Lake.

The Lone Smiler

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:25:07 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photo Theme Park theme of: ONLY ONE SMILING IN A GROUP
The one smiler in this photo has a small, rather strange, worried looking smile and is certainly outnumbered by all the non-smilers. (Can you see him?)
I'm not sure, but it's possible that the mother of the woman with the black bow-tie has died.
Or perhaps it's just a gloomy Christmas.
Below is another example of some members of the same family with, again, one smiler.

Flash

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 17:09:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of steps, stairs, staircases.

This is a real photo postcard of young women standing on the steps leading up to the entrance of a building. They're wearing uniforms with scarves or neckerchiefs, and the banner they're holding simply says, "Flash." In the corners of the banner are what seem to be drawings of stylized top hats. Peeking out from below the banner are two pairs of what might be athletic shoes.

Although someone over on Flickr amusingly suggested that this might be an early example of a flash mob, I suspect that these young women belonged to a club or sports team at a high school or college. But I'm not sure what "Flash" meant to them or why the top hats -- if that's what they are -- appear on the banner.

Off to a Gig, 1971

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:35:06 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: THE SEVENTIES
From L to R: My brother, electric guitar, (he's 15), my cousin Keith, drummer, Kevin, roadie, Fred, roadie, Fred's girlfriend, lovely "Bugs", Lori, looking adoringly at her husband, Skip [bass player?] and Joe behind them.

Below, my brother playing in another band c.1973
That's me on the left - and that charming look is directed at my poor mother who had the temerity to ask me to turn around for a photo.
I really wasn't always that awful. : )

Birthday Party Gang

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 23:39:27 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: OUR GANG (Kids gathered in a group portrait)
On the way home from vacation, we stopped at a real old junk store in Newport, New Hampshire. Amongst thousand of junky items I spied a box marked FREE on the checkout counter with some really cool vintage photos - so I picked out a bunch.
This was one of quite a few taken by a man who worked for some years at the town newspaper, and then opened a print shop, where he apparently worked for many years.
I would guess this is mid to late 1950s, early 1960s.
The photographer's name (written in pencil on the back) is William Patten. The birthday girl is the second girl to the right of the three little girls on the left front. She had a thin, dark bow around her neck and is standing next to the very blonde boy.