Photos, videos and docs of Alan Mays, with the keywords: "bushes"

Reider Family Picking Blackberries, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1913

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:12:02 +0000

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

Caption (vertically along the left-hand side): "Reider Family Picking Black-Berries, Lanc. Co."

A real photo postcard of Edward H. Reider (1875-1942) and his family. It's addressed on the other side to Mr. David Spangler, Lebanon, Leb. Co., Penn., Rout. 2, and postmarked in Elizabethtown, Pa., on September 10, 1913.

Message: "Elizabethtown, Pa., Sept. 1, 1913. Friend, We are all well as you see on the face of this card. Hoping youence [i.e., you-uns or youns] are all the same. Truly yours, E. H. Reider."

Children with Their Dog and Toys

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 03:56:15 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo of backyard sports (e.g., croquet, badminton, horseshoe pitching, bocce ball, etc.).

A tinted French real photo postcard from the early twentieth century showing children with a dog and toys, including a hoop and stick, doll, badminton racquet and shuttlecock, jump rope, and rings.

Aim Straight

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:47:53 +0000

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"Aim Straight. A. Lanborn."

Cupid is aiming straight for the heart in the illustration on this nineteenth-century sentiment card.

The Haunting of a House

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 19 Oct 2014 23:32:22 +0000

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A haunted house photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

There's no question that the house in this undated real photo postcard was haunted. We can see that an ectoplasmic substance was flowing down from the roof of the house and drifting toward the men and women below. I don't want to think about what happened to the unsuspecting group when the ectoplasm reached them.

In addition, the radiating beams of energy visible in the lower right-hand corner could only have emanated from a ghostly orb just out of camera range. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the orb drifted right through the front door of the haunted house, startling the photographer and causing the photo to be off-kilter.

Of course, some investigators are likely to dismiss this clear-cut evidence of haunting as a light leak or some other imperfection in the photo, but I think that the malevolent nature of these paranormal manifestations is obvious. I'm sad to report that I don't have any further information regarding the fate of the photographer or the individuals in the photograph.

Girls with Guns

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 26 May 2015 15:50:42 +0000

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A bad behavior photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

Emily B. Graham

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:06:46 +0000

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Keep This to Look at When I Am Dead and Gone

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:06:23 +0000

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A proud of their blooming plant photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

In 1910, sixty-year-old Sarah Hetyke posed for this photo next to the blooming mock orange tree in her yard and then wrote a poignant message to her three-year-old nephew on the back of it (see below).

Handwritten on the back of this real photo postcard:

Lewis Stifler

Aug. 9, 1910

Dear Lewis,

I am 60 and you are 3. You keep this to look at when I am dead and gone, and remember me. And I hope you will grow up to be a good and useful man.

Lovingly,

Your Aunt Sarah Hetyke

Taken in the yard beside the mock orange tree when [it was] in full bloom.

Attack of the 50 Foot Fish

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 21:48:38 +0000

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Real photo postcard, postmarked Juneau, Wisconsin, Sept. 21, 1912.

Gathering Easter Eggs

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:32:46 +0000

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An unused Victorian-era advertising trade card with no overprinting.

These Legs Are Mine

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:10:01 +0000

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The upper portion of this photo has been torn off, and a handwritten note on the back of the photo explains why: "The top of this picture was no good, but these legs are mine."

Car in Front of a Two-Garage House

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:18:04 +0000

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A view of American suburbia in a vintage slide.

German Shepherd Shaking and a Shadow

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 22:39:51 +0000

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