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

Boy in Halloween Costume with Scarecrow and Jack-O'-Lantern

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 16:48:02 +0000

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of tricks and treats for Halloween.

A young boy dressed in a clown or hobo Halloween costume holds the hand of a scarecrow as he poses for a picture. On the table behind him is a grinning jack-o'-lantern wearing a pointed hat.

The same scarecrow decoration coincidently shows up in another photo. See Funny Easter Bunnies at Halloween, 1961. The 1961 date on that photo suggests that this one dates to the late 1950s or early 1960s.

Halloween Heads—Girl with Jack-O'-Lanterns, 1972

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 03:34:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of tricks and treats for Halloween.

A cute and amusing Halloween snapshot that's a little out of focus. Although the photo was developed in "Feb. 73" (as indicated on the left-hand border), the girl evidently posed with her jack-o'-lanterns during the previous October.

For a similar picture, see I Love My Jack-O'-Lantern!

Funny Easter Bunnies at Halloween, 1961

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:21:02 +0000

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A photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park monthly topic of something funny.

A couple of funny Easter bunnies -- actually dressed up for Halloween -- pose in front of a fireplace as they hold their carrots.

Printed on the back: "This is a Kodacolor print made by Kodak. November 1961 R." The November photo developing date was the first clue that these are Halloween costumes (but I'm counting them as Easter bunnies, too!). There's also a scarecrow standing on top of a pumpkin (on the right in front of the fireplace) that's obviously an autumn decoration, and it looks like there may be pumpkin and ghost figurines on the mantel.

See also Quizzical Kids in Easter Costumes and more photos in my Funny Bunnies album.

A Little Girl with a Jack-o'-Lantern, 1969

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 22:08:04 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of haunted by Halloween (Trick or treat, give us something good to see! Halloween photos of any kind, including costumes, masks, jack-o'-lanterns, decorations, skeletons, ghosts, haunted houses, monsters, or anything spooky or scary. No limit—post as many Halloween photos as you'd like!).

A snapshot of a young girl posing with a jack-o'-lantern.

For similar photos, see A Big Jack-O'-Lantern and a Little Kid and I Love My Jack-O'-Lantern!

How to Keep Your Dog Off of the Bed

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 03:06:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of beds and bedrooms.

To keep your dog off of the bed, place chairs across it. Just make sure you use enough chairs.

This is an undated snapshot with no identifying information.

Doubly Cute, 1949

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 03:16:02 +0000

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A blurry but charming photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

A double exposure featuring a cute kid with a big smile sitting in the foreground along with a ghostly mom and the kid's blurry doppelgänger lurking in the background. The photo is dated 1949 in the lower right-hand corner.

For more charming blurriness, see Misty Shores of Memory and Fuzzy Dog.

Smiling Mother with Wide-Eyed Baby (Full Version)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 11 May 2020 03:05:02 +0000

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For more information, see the cropped version of this real photo postcard.

Smiling Mother with Wide-Eyed Baby

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 11 May 2020 03:05:04 +0000

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A mothers and babies photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

A fashionably dressed mother with a gentle smile poses for a picture as she holds her baby, who's staring in wide-eyed astonishment at something off camera.

This is an undated real photo postcard from Paris, France (based on a partial address—Ave. de Neuilly—stamped on the other side).

See also the full version of this photo.

Easter Bunny Kids

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:19:02 +0000

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A photo of people looking right at you for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

And this doubles as a photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park monthly topic of the 1960s (submit a photo on this topic each week in addition to—or instead of—a photo for the weekly topic).

Yet another snapshot of those Quizzical Kids in Easter Costumes, who were celebrating Easter and springtime in 1963.

Easter Sun Day (Full Version)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:06:00 +0000

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For more information, see the cropped version of this snapshot.

Easter Sun Day

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:06:02 +0000

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A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of messy (pics of mud covered children, birthday cake on the face, etc.).

Squinting in the bright sunlight, a cute little tyke sits among the carefully arranged messiness of an Easter photo op.

See also the full version of this undated snapshot.

Girl Reading the North American Newspaper (Detail)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 02:32:02 +0000

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A detail showing a close-up of the North American newspaper from a real photo postcard. For more information, see the original photo.

Girl Reading the North American Newspaper

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 02:32:04 +0000

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A photo of readers (people reading books or magazines) for the Vintage Photos Theme Park. (Or people reading newspapers? Hopefully my fellow VPTPers will indulge my topic drift from magazines to newspapers.)

A real photo postcard of a young girl holding an issue of the North American newspaper (mouse over the image for a close-up view of the paper—I haven't been able to determine a date or decipher any of the headlines, unfortunately).

The girl has a smirk on her face and a pair of pince-nez glasses on her nose as she looks down at her newspaper. I'm not sure what might be in the case that's on the floor next to her chair.

Little Girl Nurse

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:45:14 +0000

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A photo of nurses, doctors, or hospitals for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

A little girl in a nurse costume on a real photo postcard by E. & K. Bolam, who were photographers in the seaside resort town of Ilfracombe, England. "Hospital Saturday" refers to a British fundraising method for hospitals that predated the National Health Service.

Easter Bunny and Boy, 1956

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:18:36 +0000

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A Polaroid photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

Run, Johnny, there's a big bunny behind you!

For a similar photo, see A Visit with the Easter Bunny:

Santa Unmasked

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:41:06 +0000

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Posted on the day after the U.S. presidential election as a reminder that Santa Claus isn't always who he seems to be, and he may not bring the presents we expect to receive.

Here are a couple of other Santa masks, along with a masked Santa:

Mr. Jack O. Lantern and His Trick-or-Treat Friends

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 20:53:55 +0000

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A photo of kids in costume/fancy dress for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

Green-tinted blurry kids pose with a jack-o'-lantern before heading out for Halloween trick-or-treating sometime in the 1970s.

The back of the photo is watermarked with "A Kodak Paper," which was used in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Roy Peiffer on Strunk's Studio Horse, Reading, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 21 May 2016 22:36:40 +0000

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Intended as a rocking horses photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park.

Handwritten on the back of this cabinet card photo: "Roy Peiffer, cousin. Born about 1905." (If the name and date are correct, then this may be Roy Peiffer, 1905-1990.)

Photographer: "Strunk, cabinet portraits, 730 Penn St., Reading, Pa."

I've been planning all week to use this photo as my rocking horse. On Flickr, I found a similar photo that's titled "The Rocking Horse Winner" - circa 1890 Cabinet Card. It's from the same studio and shows a little boy standing beside the same horse.

I was surprised and disappointed, however, when I did some more searching yesterday and discovered another cabinet photo with the horse that's for sale on a military antiques Web site. Unlike my photo and the one on Flickr, the third photo on the antiques site clearly reveals that the horse is standing on a wooden base with four wheels--there are no rockers.

Since I won't have a chance to get another photo ready to post before the end of the week, I'll have to throw myself on the mercy of the court and ask the indulgence of my fellow Theme Parkers. If anyone objects to my submission of a wheeled--rather than a rocking--horse for this week's theme, I'll gladly withdraw it.

Kathryn Keen, Her Mother, and Her Doll

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:58:56 +0000

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Handwritten caption: "Kathryn Keen & mother."

Kathryn's mother, who's standing in the background and appears to be shaking a piece of carpet, is peering over at her daughter as the photographer takes the picture.

Carole and McGuffey Ann on the DeSoto, 1949

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:01:22 +0000

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Handwritten note on the back of this tinted photo: "Carole with McGuffey Ann on the DeSoto, October 1949."

A 1940 newspaper ad described the McGuffey Ann doll (it's name was actually "Ana" rather than "Ann") as "a real American beauty with pigtails and straw bonnet."