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

Girl with Glasses and Lapel Watch

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 03:38:02 +0000

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of photo with decorative border or frame.

Printed on the other side of this real photo postcard: "White House Photo Parlor, W. H. Burnham, Prop., 25 Clinton Ave., Cortland, N.Y."

A portrait of a young girl with glasses. Her dress has a lacy collar, she has a bow in her hair, and she's wearing a necklace and a lapel watch with chain.

The type of Azo stamp box (with four corner triangles pointing up) printed on the other side suggests a date that may be as early as 1904 to 1918.

Compare the oval border of this photo with the one used for Man's Portrait in Elaborate Border.

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.

H. E. Grothe—Calling Card with Photograph

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 11 May 2020 04:14:02 +0000

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A calling card for "H. E. Grothe" with attached photo. I purchased this from a dealer in Seattle, Washington, who obtained it along with other calling cards (without photographs) from an estate sale in Idaho.

For other photo calling cards, see:
-- Warren Perkins
-- Miss Ellen Sophia Auchey
-- Irwin G. Waggener

Cyanotype Woman with May 1908 Calendar

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 04:56:02 +0000

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Handwritten note on the other side of this calendar: "Ida Massimore. For faithful attendance at Sunday School. From your teacher, Mrs. E. W. Gregory."

Mrs. Gregory is wearing a cross necklace in the blue-tinted cyanotype photo on this calendar, which she used as an attendance reward for her Sunday school students.

Happy New Year 1911 from the Morgans

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 04:48:57 +0000

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"Happy New Year — 1911 — from the Morgans."

A real photo postcard greeting from the Morgan family, location unknown.

J. H. Hain, Manufacturer of Saddles, Harness, Whips, Reading, Pa.

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 03:57:10 +0000

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A cameo card for Jacob Haak Hain (1823-1891), who was a saddler in Reading, Pennsylvania. For a brief biography of Hain, see History of the Hain Family: Descendants of George and Veronica Hain (Reading Eagle Press, 1941), p. 65:

"Jacob Haak Hain. . . born 1822 [or 1823, according to his gravestone], died 1891. On December 9, 1845, he married Mary Ann Goodhart, daughter of Jacob and Mary Ann (Beidler) Goodhart. She was born 1825, died 1898. He carried on a harness making business at 321 Penn Street, Reading and was Chairman of the Democratic Standing Committee, 1863-64; Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Berks County, 1872-75. Jacob, his wife, and their three children are buried in Charles Evans Cemetery."

Another of Hain's business cards (not a cameo card, however) is available as part of the Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections. See Jacob H. Hain, Manufacturer of Saddles, Harness, Bridles, Collars, Covers, Whips. No. 321 Penn Street, Reading, Pa.

For additional examples of cameo cards, see Best Boiler Works, Lancaster, Pa., and Eagle Marble Works, Monuments, Tombs, Gravestones, Reading, Pa.

J. H. Hain,

Manufacturer of Saddles, Harness, Whips, Collars, Fly Nets, Covers, &c.

No. 321 Penn Street, Reading, Pa.

McClement Bros.

Greetings from the Grange Encampment and Fair, Centre Hall, Pennsylvania

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:16:44 +0000

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Postcard addressed on the other side to: "Prof. H. C. Klinger, Liverpool, Pa., R.F.D. #1."

Partial transcription of the message (no year and no postmark): "Sept. 17th, 9 a.m. At Grange Park C. H. in remembrance of the hunting . . . J. J. Jordan."

The Centre County Grange Encampment and Fair--usually just called the "Grange Fair"--has been held annually in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, since 1874.

For another postcard with the same ears-of-corn border, see Memorial Day.

Those Who Know Everything in General Know Nothing in Particular (Rotated)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 02:25:06 +0000

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A rotated view of this reward of merit provides a better--though still tilted--view of the chromolithographed scrap added in the middle

For the original, see Those Who Know Everything in General Know Nothing in Particular.

Those Who Know Everything in General Know Nothing in Particular

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 02:25:08 +0000

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A reward of merit dated 1875. Unfortunately, the small but colorful chromolithographed scrap glued to the middle of the card isn't positioned correctly (take a look at a rotated version instead of craning your neck), but the elaborate design surrounding the scrap makes up for it.

The nineteenth-century "maxim" printed on the card reminds me of the modern quip about know-it-alls: "Those who think they know everything annoy those of us who do."

For another reward of merit printed by Colton, Zahm, & Roberts, see Look Up and Not Down.

Golden Maxim Reward

Those who know everything in general, know nothing in particular.

Colton, Zahm, & Roberts, New York.

Written on the back of the card: "1875, James M. Stoner."

I Do Not Hesitate to State

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:29:02 +0000

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An unused postcard with no postmark or anything else to indic8 a d8.

I do not hesist8 to st8
I'll see you at an early d8--
The day I can not indic8--
But even if the trains are l8,
Or if they raise the railroad r8,
Or I'm forced to go by fr8,
I'll see you soon, as sure as f8.

Fifty-Cent Bank Note, Summit County Bank, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 1862

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 22:01:52 +0000

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"Summit County Bank. Cuyahoga Falls, O. 1862. No. ______. 50. Pay the bearer fifty cents when like orders are presented in amounts of one or more dollars. W. A. Stanford. Lith. by A. S. Sanford, Cleveland, O."

Unissued U.S. Civil War-era fifty-cent bank note.

Fancy Cow and Calf (Cropped)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:08:02 +0000

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

Fancy Cow and Calf

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:08:04 +0000

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Mama cow and baby calf seem to be giving the photographer a sideways glance as the farmer and his family hold them in place to pose for the camera. See a cropped version for a close-up of the disgruntled bovines.

The decorative mask--with its stylized flowers and curled-up edges--gives the appearance of a fancy photo frame. For a similar real photo postcard, see Man's Portrait in Elaborate Border.

Woman Standing in an Elaborate Border

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 04:44:03 +0000

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A woman standing among the shrubbery is surrounded by the stylized scrolls and flowers of the decorative mask used to print this real photo postcard.

Man's Portrait in Elaborate Border

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 04:44:25 +0000

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A real photo postcard printed with a decorative mask. The scrollwork and flowers in the design of the mask make it look like an elaborate picture frame.

Woman's Photo on a Colorful Celluloid Plaque, ca. 1927

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:40:18 +0000

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Celluloid medallions and plaques like this were popular during the early part of the twentieth century. The design on this colorful plaque is dated 1927.

For additional examples, see my small album of Celluloid Photographic Medallions (including the two below) or head over to Flickr to take a look at the George Eastman House's collection of Celluloid Medallions & Buttons.

Warren Perkins

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 22:38:04 +0000

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A Victorian-era calling card with pasted-on photo.

For other similar cards, see my Calling Cards with Photographs album.

We Will Never See It Again—The Ferris Wheel at the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904 (Cropped)

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 04:16:02 +0000

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

We Will Never See It Again—The Ferris Wheel at the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904

nobody@ipernity.com (Alan Mays) — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 04:16:04 +0000

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A cyanotype real photo postcard for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of pick a particular format (daguerreotype, cabinet card, CDV, real photo postcard, cyanotype, slide, Polaroid, or what have you?).

Handwritten message: "It's been a long time since we saw this, and we will never see it again. I'm sorry it has been destroyed. I haven't forgotten the promised pictures of St. L. You shall have them some day. Yours, J.W."

Addressed on the other side to Miss Virginia Stone, Pulaski, Va., and postmarked at Tazewell, Va., on Jan. 24, 1907 (the year is illegible on this card but I have another St. Louis cyanotype from J.W. that was postmarked on Aug. 25, 1907).

J.W. and Miss Virginia Stone were two of the more than 19 million people who visited the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. The Ferris Wheel that's visible in this blue-tinted cyanotype photo was originally constructed in 1893 for the Chicago World's Fair. The wheel was disassembled in Chicago, transported to St. Louis, and rebuilt in time for the fair in 1904 (mouse over the image above for an enlarged view of the Ferris Wheel).

After the St. Louis World's Fair ended, the Ferris Wheel met its fate on May 11, 1906, when it was dynamited and sold for scrap. "It's been a long time since we saw this," said J.W. in his note to Virginia in 1907, "and we will never see it again. I'm sorry it has been destroyed."

The Missouri Historical Society's World's Fair Ferris Wheel album on Flickr contains photos showing the installation and demolition of the wheel.