Today’s photo from the Leather CdV Album is a fine image of a young man posed quite attractively, presumably so he could impress the ladies he visited and thereby left his visiting card. The square corners of the card indicate the 1860s but this is mid to late century (my guesstimate) due to the entire …
Don’t you think this fellow looks like Prince Charles? Just for the sake of comparison… It’s a doppleganger 100 years separated! The image by T. Ludwick Darnell is from the early 1870s and the one of Prince Charles is from the early 1970s. I have submitted this as a Sepia Saturday post so our friends …
To commemorate the beginning of the London Olympics, Sepia Saturday is celebrating sports! While my family loves sports and many of us have participated on various sporting teams, I can’t find a good old baseball picture. Instead, I found among the photos my cousin scanned some unidentified family & friends in Ocean City (presumably New …
This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt is a baby in the pram, and since I can hardly resist cute babies, I have a plethora of options for this post! “Robert Teel Bowens age 5 mo” This one features a little girl and her doll in the buggy. This one is an AZO Real Photo postcard with …
Well, sometimes the prompt for Sepia Saturday sends me in different directions than the actual subject matter of the prompt. Such is the case this week, when the prompt shows a baby elephant and some children. However, this got me thinking circus, carnival, zoo, etc. When I came across this feature from Life Magazine on …
Who Were They? 