1946 in San Antonio Texas

Well I guess this will be the last of the soldier photos for awhile.  It has been a good series.  I still have about 30 misc photos that are not marked that are part of this group.

Two soldiers and one gal in a flannel shirt and jeans.  These were all taken in 1946 in San Antonio Texas.

Same gal…

I wonder if they dropped her into the water?
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Photo Number 710

This is a group of service men and their wives or girlfriends in 1946 at San Antonio Texas. All the men are in uniform and the women are in civilian clothing. 

For now this group remains unknown.  Perhaps some day someone will wander by and identify them.

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If you are a Veteran..Thank you for your service and may God Bless You:)

Photo Number 705

This is the continuation of WWII era photos.  These are all taken in the United States.

A Soldier returns home to family.  There are many photos with different people..I chose this one because it shows a rural area.

 

The Soldier has a gal.

The photos were developed on Velox paper.  None of them are marked with a name or a date.

I think this Soldier may be the same soldier that we have seen several times..the one named “Gene”. What do you think?

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Photo Number 704

These are the last of the WWII photos that are marked with names that were taken in the hospital/clinic setting.

And here is one last photo of Gene.

Tomorrow we will follow a soldier home.  I think it is Gene..but none of the next photos are marked with names..some are marked with a developing date..1946.

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Photo Number 690

Today is a special day!  Today marks the Two Year Anniversary of this blog.   I had hoped to have 36 Full Circles by now..instead I will be happy with the 33 that have been accomplished.

I still search out and collect old black and white photographs…especially ones with names on the back.  I frequent local Antique Shops where they all know me by name.

This is a tea party photo that I purchased at Buggy Wheel Antiques near Lake Park Minnesota. It most likely from the 1940’s or the early 1950’s.

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Photo Number 689

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the Antique Shop in Solway Minnesota.

This is an Azo postcard from 1904 to 1918.  A group of friends.

Women’s hats were at their largest in 1910, they had some very long hatpins that accompanied those hats!

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Photo Number 686

This is a photo from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

A fine looking group of young men with Fedoras..and look at those scarfs..they must have driven into town for their photos. Somewhere I have a vision stored in my brain..of men in fedoras with scarves covering their mouths driving cars..perhaps it was in a movie.

A fedora was a felt hat that was part of a middle class men’s wardrobe in the 1920’s.  The fedora was typically creased lengthwise down the crown, it may have had custom indents pinched at both sides of the crown.

The photographers were Carter and Birdsall of Hampton Iowa. I located them..but found no reference to the years they were in business. 

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Photo Number 667

This is a a Cabinet Card. The older children surround their little sister in the chair.

P.H. Tallman was a photographer from Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. He was in that area from 1898 to 1900 and then again in 1906.

On a side note, Blooming Prairie was named by a railroad executives wife after she saw all the wooden shacks that made up the settlement.  Blooming Prairie is located in South Eastern Minnesota.

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Photo Number 641

This is a photo from right around 1900..my best guess is that this is a boarding house  or a family gathering.

The women are wearing blouses and skirts that were popular after 1900.

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Photo Number 636

This is a photo from the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Looks like a whole bunch of girls with ribbons in their hair and one little boy..maybe two..that little one in the center might be a boy. It seems that most of these children have their hair parted down the center..so that is not a clue for the gender of the smallest child.

This photograph looks like it was taken sometime around 1900-1910.

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Photo Number 624

This is an interesting photo.  I don’t think they were pitching hay.   Maybe straw.  I have not seen a photo like this one before. 

Six men and six pitchforks and someone in the background.

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Photo Number 609

Here are some more men. This photo is from the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

The man on the right might be the Grandpa, he is taking charge of the child..holding him still.  One of the men could be the boys father. I think this may be a photo from the late 1940’s.

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Photo Number 608

This is a photo from the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. Another one of John’s 25 cent specials.

Three brothers?  The photo was developed in LaCrosse Wisconsin.

I believe it says:
No. 6 
Sun Sept 3 1939
Taken at 5:20 PM
“Brotherly Love” of sweet old nature---
Sun side type

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Photo Number 607

This is a photo from the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Two women and a child in a yard someplace.  The lady on the left has a beautiful lace inset on the front of her dress and very lacy sleeves.   The other lady needs a little support or a sweater.  These dresses are longer so I will date them sometime in the late 1910’s or early 1920’s.

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Photo Number 606

Line them up for a photo at the lake.  This is a photo from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

This photo is marked on the back.

“Grant, Pat, Patty, Sonny and Pat’s Mother”

Most likely it was taken in the 1930’s or the 1940’s.

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Photo Number 605

This is another photo from the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.  John thinks I am a great customer…and I probably am.

This one was marked “On the Delaware River.”  The elderly women are all dressed like my Grandmother used to dress in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s.  A cotton dress with the proper hose and shoes.

Did you notice that this group brought a box of Alka-Selzer?

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Photo Number 604

This is a photo from the Antique Shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

It was marked “Hebron Study Club.”  There are towns called Hebron and a Hebron Church..so it could be either.

I am not sure what is going on in this photo.  There seems to be a likeness of a person with arms outstretched around two of the ladies. 

The ladies seem to be serving some kind of beverage?? This photo is more than likely from the 1940’s or 1950’s.

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Photo Number 597

A different family..and a slightly different summer scene.

The men seem very relaxed. The women not so much. The straw hat or “boaters” as they were often called were very popular in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s.  They were worn by men on the weekend..the “boaters” may have been worn boating or just on a relaxing weekend in the country. Boaters were made of woven straw and had a hat ribbon around them ( this was called a Nostro.)  We can thank the Italians for these hats, their Gondoliers originally wore them.

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Photo Number 596

This is a photo from the Antique Shop in Park Rapids.  The photo was more than likely taken around 1910.

Thirteen women and one man.  I wonder what the occasion was?The vine covered porch was a great place to gather.

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Photo Number 595

This is the last photo that goes with the family that we have been looking at the past few days. I am going to follow along with this same photographer..but with different subjects.

I believe the lady on the right is the same “Grandma “ that we have seen previously.  None of the other women appear in the other photos as far as I can tell. The women all have the pigeon breasted blouse look and dark skirts.  I thought the young lady with the pig tails looked real perky and happy to be included in the photo with the older ladies, she looks to be about 12 years old to me. I bet that front porch was a great place to sit in the summertime shade. I still think that all these photos were taken around 1910.  None of these photos were marked.

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