This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt has a wealth of directions in which to travel. I could have showed you a storefront, or people on a stoop, or even an old business, but since I already used all of those for previous posts I needed a new angle. I have been wanting to showcase this photo, …
I always pose my kid on a cannon barrel. Don’t you?
Today we have a tintype in a paper folder. There is no identification of the child in the image and this was purchased as part of a large lot of “old photos” off ebay. If you enlarge the photo, you can see what appears to be the arm of a parent reaching in from the …
Every time I look at this picture I get the sense that this girl is sad. Maybe it is just the set of her mouth and the angle of her look – slightly upward – but she seems melancholy. This is a CdV from a batch I bought online. The girl is around 10 years …
This is another mid-1860s young girl and I always wonder what are people thinking when they are posing for their portrait. I know what I think about – getting it over with!
Who Were They? 