Who Were They? is going to speed forward in time and look at some 20th century photos for a while. I bought the photo above because I rarely see old photos of black people. This lady wore a nice hat and wore her coat during the sitting for this photo. It was a photo postcard, …
Here we have our fourth AZO postcard from the Benedicta Trunk album, and the third with the same backdrop. This one looks a bit off center, and the two gentlemen look harried and a little rumpled, don’t you think? The fellow on the right looks a bit to me like Oliver Hardy if he was …
This is the third of four AZO postcards from the Benedicta Trunk album. This backdrop looks the same as the one of the lady with the flowers. It appears they used this venue as their photography studio and got postcards as prints. I wonder if their cost was better than standard prints that were available …
Today we have an AZO postcard from the Benedicta Trunk album. I don’t know who this lady is. She could be one of the Trunk sisters, a friend or a relative. The flowers in this picture look pretty sad, don’t you think?
This is a real photo postcard from the Benedicta Trunk photo album. A real photo postcard is one that used the standard photographic development process in a darkroom to print the postcard images. This particular one is an AZO postcard, which means it was printed on Kodak Professional AZO paper. The stamp box (where the …
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