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Category: Photos Without Names

That Faraway Look, Detroit, 1894 or ’95

Cabinet Card, 1894 – 1895. Photography by Burton J. Holcombe & Co. Price:  $6.00       Size:  4 and 1/4 x 6 and 1/2″ The above photo of the beautiful woman with the faraway gaze looks over-exposed or faded, but to me,…Read More…

Bundled Up For The Cold

Divided back, Real Photo Postcard, circa 1910s. CYKO stamp box. Price:  $4.00 This particular style of CYKO stamp box enjoyed a pretty broad range, from about 1904 to the 1920s per Playle.com. Presuming with the divided back it would start…Read More…

Snow Maidens

Old photo, circa 1910s – 1920s. Price:  $1.00       Size:  About 3 and 1/4 x 2 and 1/4″ Snow and laughter… here’s a great old photo for wintertime, no names (darn!) but wonderful just the same, of four young ladies, sisters…Read More…

Kids In Leaf

Divided back, Real Photo Postcard, unused. Circa 1914 – 1917. Price:  $5.00 A good one for a new category, which really should not be new (eee gads, will have to backtrack and see which ones I missed in the past)…Read More…

Charlie Guidotti’s School Photo

Group photo of Salinas Valley School Children  Availability status:  SOLD Size of photo without cardboard mat:  About 7 x 5″ Photographer unknown, photo is glued onto cardboard mat. A wonderful original group photo, albeit in very rough shape, that had…Read More…

Woman In Plaid, Malmö, Sweden

Carte-de-Visite by photographer Per Axel Sjöberg. Malmö, Sweden. Circa 1905 – 1915. Price:  $7.00        Size:  2 and 1/2 x 4 and 1/8″ The most recent year on the back of the CDV, advertising the photographer’s awards and locations given, shows…Read More…

A Handsome Swedish Couple

Carte-de-Visite, circa 1890 – 1910. Price:  $7.00     Size:  About 2 and 1/2 x 4 and 1/8″ A portrait of a young Swedish couple (for me the gentleman bears a strong resemblance to former Detroit Red Wing hockey player Tomas Holmström,…Read More…

“A deer they found in ‘balking’ ”

Vintage photo of swimming deer and seven men on a cruiser boat. Circa 1940s. Price:  $5.00          Size:  4 and 1/4 x 3 and 1/4″ Here we go again with trying to figure out the date of a photo (and possible…Read More…

My Birdie And Me

Old photo, circa 1913, young woman holding bird Price:  $4.00       Size:  4 and 1/4 x 2 and 1/2″ Awww, this is nice:  the joyful expression on the young woman’s face, posing on the porch steps, the way she’s sitting sideways,…Read More…

“My Dog and I”

Set of two photos, circa 1920s, of girl and puppy. Price:  $3.00        Size:  About 2 and 7/8 x 2″ each. Apparently, the grammar is incorrect, as it’s supposed to be “my dog and me.”  Take out “dog” and you wouldn’t…Read More…