Contributions of the group Vintage Enormous Bows

Haunting Eyes

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:42:29 +0000

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Unknown child in an album given to me by a library patron.

71/365

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

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!

Even the Baby Is Miserable

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:34:52 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park monthly theme for December 2025: NO MORE THAN FOUR (photos of four people or two couples)
Written on the back:
Certis, Nany Beeny, Ada. [sic]

Cropped for detail. See below for original.
A shoo-in for the Vintage Miserable Family Group.

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.

First Communion, 1917

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:45:23 +0000

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A Real Photo Post Card, two up two down AZO, undivided back, 1917.
Purchased in Branford, Connecticut, November 2023.

Buella

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:01:32 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vntage Photos Theme Park theme of: AWW, ISN'T THAT CUTE!
Nov. 25, 2024 - Dec. 2, 2024
(Forgot to post this one after uploading.)
Found photo, Branford, Connecticut.
Written on the back: Buella Shields
The crimped edges of this Cabinet Card were most often used in the 1890s.

Hazel and Lula

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:40:52 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of : PICK YOUR OWN THEME ABOUT THINGS
So, here's a Studio portrait on bevel-edged cardboard from my vintage collection of TWINS.
Taken at the studio of someone called Harris in Arapahoe, Nebraska, U.S.
Undated - probably around 1900 - 1910ish.

The Siblings

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sat, 25 May 2024 11:31:37 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: HOLDING A DOLL
Studio portrait taken in Morgantown, West Virginia.
The owner of the store got this from an Estate Sale in Charlotte, Vermont (a nearby town ) and told me that the old woman who had died was the last of her family.
Purchased in "Your Home" shop, Main St., Bristol VT in 2023.

Belated "Strange, Unexplainable Gestures".

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 12:04:59 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: PICK YOUR OWN (post a photo depicting your favorite theme from the past year)
Not necessarily a favorite - or theme, (sorry!) but I chose this photograph as a perfect illustration of the typical scenario I wrote about several weeks ago.
Months ago, I saw this in my collection and it prompted me to suggest the theme of STRANGE, UNEXPLAINABLE GESTURES.
Of course, by the time that theme came around, I had completely forgotten about this one - and searched frustratingly for something that would illustrate STRANGE, etc.
I ended up using the one below - - but reluctantly because I KNEW I had been inspired by a better one!

However, thanks to Alan's last theme of the year - I get to choose the one above, which I finally found.
So...what is going on in this photograph? The girl looks incredibly sad, the little boy joyful (but is he also trying to cup his hand?) and the strange, worried looking boy with his hands in a begging position is just baffling.
Any ideas or impressions?
This is a studio photograph with no identifying information. I would guess it was taken c. late teens, early 1920s.

The Bashful Child

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 19 May 2023 04:44:36 +0000

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HFF, everyone! Enjoy your weekend!
I'm not quite remembering where I got this photo - but probably from a library patron's gift to me.
This is somewhere in America, c. 1918.

Pup Pram By the Fence

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 04 May 2023 12:48:12 +0000

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HFF friends! May the coming weekend be sunnier and drier than ours is supposed to be!
Here are fences behind fences in this glass plate negative.
This is a re-edited scan from the second batch of glass plate negatives that I purchased..
I bought five of them - very cheap. The dealer has written "Dummerston, VT" [Vermont] on all of them.
I got them in Brattleboro, Vermont, Feb 6, 2012.

Two Bows and a Necklace

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Mon, 01 May 2023 13:07:57 +0000

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Certainly qualifies for the Vintage Enormous Bows Group!
She has a shy, sweet face.
This is a 2" by 3" photo glued into an album give to me by a library patron. No other further information available.

Two Little Long Ago Girls

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:51:13 +0000

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From an album given to me by a library patron.
No names or other information.

Sailor Girl With a Tiny Smile

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 12:15:45 +0000

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And an enormous bow - so she's headed to the Vintage Enormous Bows group!
Found photo at Vintage Market Place in Burlington, VT..

Adele

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 19:16:41 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Theme Park Theme of: PHOTOS WITH THE SUBJECT'S NAME WRITTEN ON IT
From a collection of photos given to me by a library patron.

Five Girls with Dolls

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 30 May 2022 03:54:04 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of side by side.

Five girls with dolls stand side by side as they pose for a photo. The girl on the right seems to be smiling and is looking toward the camera, but the other four have glum expressions with downcast eyes (see a cropped version of the photo for a better view of their faces).

Are the four glum girls annoyed at having their picture taken? Is the smiling girl happy with her doll and are the others disappointed with theirs for some reason? It's difficult to tell what's going on.

This is an unused real photo postcard with an Azo stamp box design (four corner triangles pointing up) on the other side, which indicates a date that may be as early as 1904 to 1918.

Twins or Trickster?

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 23:49:24 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: STRIPES
Twins or tricksters? Pretty sure this is a trick photograph (the tear down the middle, but this is one photo) and there are several others on the page, all single images.
Anyway, her (or their) striped dress fits this week's theme!
In an album given to me by a library patron.

Creepy

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 13:56:06 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: TRICKS AND TREATS FOR HALLOWEEN
Featuring one of of those terrifyingly grotesque pre-1920 Halloween masks - although the little girl seems unfazed!

May Illingworth, Springfield, VT - June 2, 1917

nobody@ipernity.com (Deborah Lundbech) — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:42:44 +0000

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Uploaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: KIDS ON HORSES
My husband's aunt, May Illingworth, who was eleven years older than his mother, Joan.
May always went by the name of "Jill" as an adult.
Her gloomy face is prophetic - she didn't have a very happy life, although she was the apple of her mother's eyes at this point in time.