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School Photos, Québec Boys, 1950s

Posted on December 4th, 2019 by

Price:  $4.00 each or $12.00 for all.

Size each on larger, about 1 and 3/4 x 2 and 3/4″

These individual school photos ended up in a bin at the Vintage Paper Fair in San Francisco this year near some other photos taken in Québec. French-Canadian stuff always catches my eye due to my own heritage and then, you never know if you might come across a relation’s photo (it’s happened before, alas not to me yet, but still, ever hopeful….)

Anyway, these cool guys are, from left to right, top to bottom:  Robert Lamette[?], age 7 and 3 months. From the school Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Pierre Cloutier, age 6, 1950; Denis [?], Léo Gingras; Jacques Larose; Jules Gravel; Raymond Bélair; Jean-Guy Brisebois.

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Categories: Children, Old Photos, People, Photos With Names

Lorraine Bossé

Posted on December 4th, 2019 by

Photo, circa 1940s.

Price:  $10.00       Size:  About 2 and 3/8 x 3 and 1/2″

Another stunning beauty……Lorraine Bossé, in an unmistakably 1940s hairstyle, long, in waves and parted on the side, wearing embroidered blouse lapels and a cross pendant over a dark sweater. This may have been a high school graduation photo or taken not long afterward. A potential match in records shows a Marie Marguerite Lorraine Bossé baptized in 1928 in Québec City.

Possible source:  Institut Généalogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Drouin Collection; Author: Gabriel Drouin, comp. (Ancestry.com).

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Categories: People, Photos With Names, Women

Marguerite

Posted on December 4th, 2019 by

Photo, circa 1920 – 1930s.

Price:  $5.00        Size:  About 3 and 1/4 x 4 and 5/8″

Continuing on with a French-Canadian theme (after a brief Thanksgiving/autumn interlude), here’s another that was found loose in a bin at the Vintage Paper Fair in San Francisco…..a portrait of a young woman in a waved bob hairstyle, pearl necklace and wide-lapel coat with braid appliqué on the darker collar. We’re unsure what the fabric for the coat was made from, but it was something elegant, note the shimmer where the light is reflecting on our right. And there’s no writing or other identifying information on the back, she is simply, the beautiful………Marguerite.

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Categories: Old Photos, People, Photos With Names, Women