Cabinet Card. Circa 1880s. Photographer unknown. Price: $5.00 No identifying info on this one for either the subject or the photographer, but it’s a nice photo with a nice rural backdrop. The young man wears a sack suit and bow…Read More…
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Anna Flottman’s Cousin Ed
Divided back, Real Photo Postcard, unused. Circa 1910 – 1918. Price: $10.00 ” Cnell Ill. Dear Cousin, how are you I am fine and dandy. From your Cousin Ed Aleves.” Addressed to: “Miss Anna Flottman. Burden, Kans.” This one’s a…Read More…
Owen Curtis Herr, Burden KS 1908
Divided back, unused, Real Photo Postcard. January 1908. KRUXO stamp box. Availability Status: SOLD A handsome young man, age seventeen when this photo was taken: Owen “Curt” Herr, son of Samuel Horatio Herr and Caroline Jane Stuart. Curt was born…Read More…
A Family Man
Old photo, white border. Circa 1920s – 1930s. Price: $5.00 Size: About 2 and 13/16 x 2″ Sometimes we look at a photo of someone and we totally forget that they were not alone at the time, since, well duh!…Read More…
Arms Akimbo, Etc.
Divided back, Real Photo Postcard. Unknown manufacturer. Circa mid-to-late 1910s. Price: $7.00 This is a late post for Father’s Day (surely there is a dad in this photo). Late since I was out of town for a week, and just…Read More…
A. H. Taylor, Pianos And Organs
Trade Card. Salem, Massachusetts. 1880 – 1881. Price: $12.00 Size: 2 and 1/2 x 4 and 1/2″ “A. H. Taylor, Pianos And Organs, 293 Essex St., Salem, Mass.” This could be the only surviving trade card for this company in…Read More…
Girl in Wicker Chair, Reading PA
Old photo on cardboard frame. Circa 1900 – 1901. Photographer: Ammon M. Lease. Size including cardboard frame: 3 and 7/16 x 4 and 11/16″ Price: $10.00 Here’s a portrait of someone about teenager age, a young girl right at the…Read More…
Sweet Home Soap
Trade card, circa 1880s – 1890s. Price: $3.00 Size: About 3 and 1/4 x 4 and 5/16″ Young love in an old trade card Here’s a trade card, a little worse for wear, but still….a beauty: depicting a lovers’ scene…Read More…
Melvin E. Noel
Divided back, unused Real Photo Postcard. NOKO stamp box. Circa 1925. Price: $12.00 I think we can say beyond a reasonable doubt that this gentleman is Melvin Eustace Noel, born September 18, 1899 in Palermo, California, as no other possibilities…Read More…
A Proud Owner
Divided Back, unused Real Photo Postcard. Circa 1910s – 1930s. Price: $5.00 “The window is not broken, it is the reflection of the sun.” This is a Tudor-style house, as we can see from the steep-pitched roof, the tall windows,…Read More…