This little photo from 1921 is slightly longer than a CdV and features a little girl (I think) wearing nothing but a necklace with a locket. My curiosity is piqued. Was the undressed child photo common? The photographer’s name was something like Zaines or Zainer, written in pencil in a very fine hand.
This unusually shaped photo features a young girl, about 3-5 years old, in a bonnet. The girl does not appear to have any clothing on, but some type of a boa wrapped around her. I have seen a similar photo on another site, but I can’t quite recall where. In my photographic explorations I have …
I have never seen a photo is this shape; have you? It looks like a bookmark. It is definitely not a photo postcard that has been cut down, but it is of a similar weight to a photo postcard. This lovely lady glows in the soft back lighting that was popular in studio portraiture in …
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, …
Well folks, here we have the last photograph in the Dobb Long Book, and miracle of miracles, it has a name written on it! Unfortunately, it is a strange name that I haven’t been able to trace, ugh. Of note, the name is written in ball point pen, not fountain ink, so someone relatively recently …
Who Were They? 