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Category: Photos Without Names

He Takes A Great Picture

Old photo, cropped. Circa 1910s – 1920s. Price:  $5.00      Size:  about 2 and 1/2 x 3 and 1/2″ There is no tie-in to this photo and the last (that we know of – as mentioned on a number of prior…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…

Girl With A Parasol

Photo in cardboard folding frame. Photographer unknown. Glossy finish, Velox paper. Circa late 1920s – 1940s. Price:  $10.00       Size including frame:  About 4 and 1/2 x 8 and 1/2″ Multiple layers for photo detecting The Velox marks that appear on…Read More…

A San Jose, California Couple

Divided back, unused Real Photo Postcard. Circa 1910s. Photographer:  Enrico Bambocci. Solio stamp box. Availability Status:  SOLD Happily, from time to time, we find more RPPCs by Italian-born photographer Enrico Bambocci. Here’s to hoping the trend continues! The Bambocci studio…Read More…

German Couple, Wedding Photo

Divided back, deckled edge, unused Real Photo Postcard. Circa 1910s – early 1920s. Photo paper company:  Trapp & Muench. Germany. Price:  $5.00 A beautiful couple, and our imaginations do not have to run wild to think that this was probably…Read More…

Cabinet Portrait By W. A. Armstrong

Cabinet Card. Circa 1879 – 1896. Photographer:  W. A. Armstrong, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Price:  $7.00 A photo of a clean-cut young man, wearing a suit jacket with short lapels and a bow tie. The tie has a diamond (or maybe “paste”…Read More…

Dad And Kids, Darlington, Wisconsin

Cabinet Card, circa 1870s – 1880s. Photographer:  J. Polkinghorn, Darlington, Wisconsin. Price:  $7.00 A Cabinet Card by photographer J. Polkinghorn in Darlington, Wisconsin of….surely this must be the dad in the photo with his young daughter and son. He wears…Read More…

Mystery Language

Divided back, unused, Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box. Circa 1904 – 1918. Printed in Canada. Availability Status:  SOLD The snow is piled up in front of two stylish ladies (check out all the trim on the young woman’s coat)…Read More…

CDV By Mrs. E. B. Chappell

Carte de Visite, circa 1870s – mid-1880s. Photographer:  Mrs. E. B. Chappell. Price:  $10.00        Size:  About 2 and 1/2 x 13/16″ Like the last post, here’s a beautiful child posing for a Carte de Visite photo, also in that common…Read More…

Filipina In Baro’t Saya, Real Photo Postcard

Divided back, unused Real Photo Postcard. Juan Dela Cruz Studio. AZO stamp box, circa 1924 – 1949. Price:  $12.00 A beautiful young woman in the traditional Filipino dress, baro’t saya, is posing for this portrait that was taken at the…Read More…