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Category: Photos Without Names

Me In My Olds

Old photo, man in Oldsmobile, circa 1917. Price:  $5.00         Size:  5 x 3″ Youngish gentleman in suit, tie and Newsboy-type cap, posing for the camera in a circa 1917 Oldsmobile. (We presume it’s his. He looks proud.) That would likely…Read More…

Walnut Festival Parade

Vintage parade photo, 1950s, Walnut Festival. Price:  $10.00            Size:  5 x 3 and 1/2″ Circa 1950s, of the Walnut Festival Parade, showing a view of horses, tacked up in silver finery, and their riders (does the guy in the foreground remind…Read More…

Another TJ Tourist RPPC

Divided back, unused with writing, Real Photo Postcard. Circa late 1940s or 1950s. Price:  $7.00 “See my Straw Mule. Wellie look like he was drunk but he wasn’t. J.T. is about ready to take off. ha ha.” A group of…Read More…

Tourists In Tijuana, 1955

Divided back, unused, Real Photo Postcard. Circa 1955. Kodak Paper stamp box. Price:  $7.00 An African-American couple (presuming couple and presuming they’re from the U.S.) posing for a photo wearing tourist sombreros, seated on a platform behind a “Tijuana Zebra.”…Read More…

Cutting Wheat

An old photo, circa 1900s to 1920s, of a farmer behind a team of four (hard-working!) horses pulling a grain cutter-binder machine. That’s a riding crop the farmer is holding. And that looks like a lot of heavy equipment the…Read More…

Little Girl And Big Horse, Defiance, Iowa

Oh! I hadn’t realized I had two by this photographer. Excellent! It’s a great one of a pretty girl (gazing downward) in coat, gloves and hat (how do you like that big pom pom, not to mention the big bow…Read More…

Horse Team And Wagon, Defiance, Iowa

The scene in this Real Photo Postcard is of three women, ready for travel, who are seated in a wagon that is hitched to a team of light-colored horses; a gentleman standing at the horses heads, probably steadying the team…Read More…

Horse And Buggy Couple

“12 1/2 of these”  appears written in pencil on the back of this Real Photo Postcard. Hmmm, maybe this was photography lingo for twelve “half-size” or something to this effect. But it’s a beautiful photo of a young couple posing…Read More…

A Beautiful Mother And Daughter Photo

At first glance one might think these ladies could be sisters, just because the woman on the right is young-looking, but really, no, this is a mother-daughter pose. They both appear to be wearing wedding rings, so perhaps the photo…Read More…

A Boy And His Wagon

A Real Photo Postcard, VELOX stamp box this time, (they seem to be not as common as AZO) showing an image, a little blurred and the worse for wear, of a boy about age three, with wagon in tow, heading…Read More…