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Category: People

Ready For Breakfast

Old photo, white border. April 1914. Price:  $3.00           Size:  About 2 and 1/2 x 3 and 7/8″ “Vera & Geo just coming home from store. April 1914.” No surnames or location for this one but perhaps…Read More…

Siblings Argalus and Elizabeth Gray, Circa 1909

Old photo. North Dakota, circa 1909. Price:  $12.00             Size:  About 4 x 5″ More adorable kids:  Siblings, Argalus Walter and Elizabeth Lulu Gray. Their parents are Argalus Wilson Gray and Martha Lulu (Carr) Gray. Argalus…Read More…

Clara Matilda Boyce, Albion, Michigan

Carte-de-Visite. 1872 or 1873. Photographer:  L. J. Trumbull, Albion, Michigan. Price:  $15.00            Size:  About 2 and 1/2 x 4 and 1/8″ A cutie in an 1870’s-style plaid dress, reclining (well, posed of course, but with…Read More…

Comic Donkey and Couple Circa 1940’s

Old photo, circa 1940’s. Price:  $6.00              Size:  About 2 and 1/2 x 3 and 1/2″ These type seem to be generally referred to as “face-in-the-hole-board.” Other names include photo cutouts, Aunt Sallys, peep boards,…Read More…

Mother and Son

Old photo, white border, circa 1930s. Price:  $2.00         Size:  3 and 3/8 x 5″ Another poor quality shot (but the peering into the past effect is cool) and also, like the prior post, no identifying names. I…Read More…

The Old Houseboat

Real Photo Postcard, unused. Circa 1907 – 1915. Price:  $4.00 What confirms this structure’s status as a boat is the name at the stern – though very faint and indiscernible. And since the postcard’s image is so washed out, here’s…Read More…

A Hidden Doorway

Divided Back, Real Photo Postcard, unused. Deckled edge. Circa 1910’s. Photographer:  E. Hunter, Schlettstadt. Pt. 773/II.  Price:  $15.00 An unusual photographic pose if we ever saw one! The whimsical Augustine, wife of Julien Duller, pauses at a “doorway,” her left…Read More…

Miss Lila Sears, Portland, Oregon

. Divided Back, Real Photo Postcard, unused. AZO stamp box. Photographer:  Bicknell. Circa 1916 – 1918. Price:  $15.00       Embossed on the front lower right is the photographer info:   “Bicknell. 326 1/2 Washington St. Portland Ore.” Miss Lila, very…Read More…

Martha Reifschneider

Divided Back, Real Photo Postcard, unused. KRUXO stamp box, circa 1908 – 1910. Price:  $15.00 Portrait of a beautiful young woman, in satin dress with tucks and a ruffled high lace collar….. This particular KRUXO stamp box, with four-leaf clovers…Read More…

Palo Cathedral, Leyte, Philippines, Circa 1945

Two old photos, Palo Cathedral, Leyte, Philippines. Circa 1945. Price for the pair:  $10.00         Sizes:  Photo with soldier, about 2 and 1/4 x 3 and 1/8″ Photo of cathedral, about 4 and 11/16 x 2 and 7/8″…Read More…