Sunday, December 6, 2009

Photo Number Forty-Seven


Clifford  M. Hursh and P.C. Hursh  are the names written on the back of this photo..with a fountain pen.   This photo could have been taken just about anywhere yet I suspect that it was taken in Minnesota..because of the clump Birch trees.  I will guess that this photo was taken around 1945.
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Photo Number Forty-Six


Kathryn at 3 1/2 and Alice Mae at 8 months.   I think this photo was probably taken in the late 1940's.  It seemed to be a trend back then to photograph your children in the doorway outside, at least there was a blanket to sit on..do you suppose that they did this because they ran out of flashbulbs? Or did they just want an outdoor photo taken after a long winter?
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Saturday, December 5, 2009

Photo Number Forty-Five


I have two of these photos, both have writing on the back in the same hand.

 "Mutt and Jeff"  I look like a freak in this picture  Ham

Doesn't Thatcher look thin?  Amy  What do you think of "Your Brothers?"

One of the photos had been folded into tiny squares...I recall men wearing suit coats with their bib overhauls in the 1950's.  I don't quite to know what to make of this photo..at first glance I thought it was a man and a woman..but maybe not.  What do you think?
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Thursday, December 3, 2009

Photo Number Forty-Four


Look at these huge sleeves!  The mutton sleeves were first seen in 1824, but made a comeback in the 1890's. Sometimes they were called Leg of Mutton sleeves.   This photo was taken in 1898 or 1899 at the Shepherd Studio in St. Paul Minnesota.  I like their wicker furniture!
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Photo Number Forty -Three


This is probably Ruth..but she might be Gladys.


I believe that this photo was probably taken in the 1940's.  The Bawden Studio in St. Paul is elusive..I ran into a brick wall with this one.
 Graduation Photo?
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Photo Number Forty-Two



I call this one "1950's baby"   I do remember little boys having these one piece outfits..blue on the bottom, white on the top and some little Teddy Bear or Rocking Horse on the front.  It was a tradition in the 1950's to take a photo of your children on their first birthday at a photography studio..it was like a rite of passage.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Photo Number Forty-One


This gal has a friend named Agnes.  This is a Real Photo Postcard.   This was a very interesting era in photography..you could have a postcard made out of any photo beginning about 1903. Kodak was instrumental in this process.

Someone cut the edges of the photo off..and in doing so part of the message is gone.  This card was never mailed..perhaps it was hand delivered to Agnes.  This Real Photo Postcard dates from 1904 to 1918.
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