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Fernande and Yvon Lamoureux

Posted on December 5th, 2019 by

Two photos, deckled edges, white borders from the Lamoureux Family. Circa 1930s.

Price for both:  $10.00

These are the last of our French-Canadian photos that were found in a box full of loose photos at the Vintage Paper Fair in San Francisco this year….That is most likely Fernande Lamoureux in the front row on our right. It looks like it was a special occasion for school or church that had the girls all lined up and posing for the photo. Notice how they must have all been told to fold their hands together. (It does make for a nice snapshot!)

Below, Fernande and little brother Yvon, at home.

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

Albert Leclerc and Friends

Posted on December 4th, 2019 by

Photo, deckled edge, white border. Circa 1940s – 1950s.

Price:  $5.00      Size:  3 and 1/2 x 3 and 1/2″

A very cute photo, and while we don’t know which child Albert is, he and his friends (and/or brothers) are all in overalls, and have stopped playing to have their picture taken. The boy on the right (a trendsetter 😉 ) wears a loosely fitted necktie, as well. But there’s something about door frames and window frames being a great place for a photo, and this image has that and also has the bonus (artistically speaking) of the one boy’s hand draping just outside the window. (If you look at old postcards a lot, you will see that the artists were always deliberately using this technique – for instance ivy or flowers flowing just outside of a rectangular border. It’s something about the flow or the feeling of added dimension.)

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

Gilles Fontaine, 1950s

Posted on December 4th, 2019 by

Photo, white border, circa 1950s.

Price:  $8.00       Size:  2 and 3/4″ x 3 and 3/4″

Young Gilles Fontaine, posing on the front porch in his double-breasted suit jacket, necktie and crew cut. The house number above the door of the duplex shows 7637 and 7635 on the adjacent home. This may have been somewhere in the Grenville, Québec or Hawkesbury, Ontario area. The two towns are across the Ottawa River from each other as showing on the map link here. And this is thanks to the “Photos Ltd” stamp on the back under which we can decipher their locations of “Hawkesbury ONT” and a town ending in “ville” QUE. (Lots of those!)

Source:  “Hawkesbury, ON, Canada.” Google.com maps. Accessed December 4, 2019.

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

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

Nutty Fellow

Posted on November 29th, 2019 by

Divided back postcard. Postmarked November 29, 1915 from San Jose, California. Publisher:  Samson Brothers, New York, NY. Number or series 94.

Price:  $12.00

While we’re still in autumn……a squirrel dressed in overalls. This card is 104 years old to the day.

“Beauty is only skin deep but it makes many a fellow go nutty over a girl!”

Addressed to:   “Miss Angelita Berryessa, 4027 Broadway, Oakland, Calif.”

The sender wrote:   “November 29, 1915.     Dear Honey, I am very glad that you are having a good time as I think you need it, after so many months of college work. Be always a good little girl and remember some time your friend. G. D.[?] Allasia.”

Angelita was born October 2, 1893 in San Jose, CA, daughter of Ysidro Berryessa and Jessie Sepulveda.

Source:  Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.

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Categories: Animals, Postcards, Postcards Used, Squirrels

Thanksgiving Day From Anna Budd

Posted on November 28th, 2019 by

Divided back, embossed postcard. Postmarked November 25, 1907 from Pensacola, Florida. Publisher:  Raphael Tuck & Sons. “Thanksgiving Day Post Cards” Series Number 123.

Price:  $12.00

Happy Thanksgiving!  Here’s a charmer from publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons, a turkey couple out for a drive in 1907.

Mailed to:   “Miss Grace Snyder. Stevensville, Sull. Co., N. Y.”  That’s Sullivan County. Stevensville later became Swan Lake.

The sender wrote:   “We are all well and hope this finds you all the same. I wish you and your mamma a happy Thanksgiving – With love from Anna Budd.    will write soon.”

Grace Snyder, born about 1892, was the daughter of Nelson H. Snyder and Evelyn Racine. On December 4, 1911 Grace married William Hathaway, born about 1887, son of Eli Hathaway and Lettie Van Orden. Bride and groom were both living in Stevensville, NY at the time of marriage.

Anna is Anna H. Budd, born January 1893, daughter of Morris D. and Carrie E. Blackmon. The 1900 census shows Anna, her parents, her old brother John (all born in New York) and her younger sister Florida, who was born in……..Florida (awww!)

Sources:  Marriage Records. New York Marriages. Various New York County Clerk offices.  (Ancestry.com).

Year: 1900; Census Place: Kupfrians Park, Escambia, Florida; Page: 4; Enumeration District: 0013; FHL microfilm: 1240168. (Ancestry.com).

“Mrs. Carrie E. Budd” obituary. The Herald-News. (Passaic, NJ). December 1, 1941. Monday, p. 8. (Newspapers.com).

Swan Lake, New York. n.d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Lake,_New_York. (accessed November 28, 2019).

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Categories: Automobiles Buses Trucks, Birds, Hats, Holidays, Postcards, Postcards Used, Thanksgiving, Turkeys

Le Vendôme, La Ville de Québec

Posted on November 2nd, 2019 by

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked September 22, 1986 from North Suburban, Illinois. Photographer and publisher:  W. Schermer, 1795 Pierre Lauzon, Pierrefonds, PQ (Montréal). Printed in Canada. Numbers or series:  57999-B and D-1152-R.

Price:  $10.00

Wall murals (love them!) This restaurant in Québec City originated in the 1950s but is now, unfortunately, permanently closed.

Described on the back of the card as:   “Le Restaurant à l’ambiance 100% parisienne. air climatisé. 36 Côte de la Montagne, Québec, Canada. – Tél. 692-0557 – 1er étage.”

Addressed to:  “Tiroler Hof Motel. 150 – Carp – River – Hill. Marquette, Mich 49855.”

Tiroler Hof translates as Tyrolean Court and was built and run by Austrians Sepp and Annemarie Hoedlmoser who came to Marquette in 1957….The motel later became the Nordic Bay Lodge and then was torn down in 2015. In the photo below, taken October of 1983, the owners stand in front of the chapel.

From a slice of Austria in the U.P. to French Canada to North Suburban, IL, with other stops (…the German stained glass from a Wisconsin church that graced the chapel…..) along the way, we’ve traveled alongside the postcard’s sender, who wrote:

“09/21/86. Mag lichkeit besteht…….MONDAY den 28 Sept. an …..für die Farben zu besichten. Freundliche Grüsse……Lucille Bubl.”

Translated as “It is true…….to visit for the colors. Friendly regards….” That might be two signatures there. (Maybe a husband drew the goofy face.) And we’re not sure on Lucille’s last name, but maybe someone who reads German can help us out!

Sources:  Rood, Dave. “Edelweiss thrives near Marquette.” Detroit Free Press. October 28, 1983, p. 3. (Newspapers.com).

“Old Tiroler Hof/Nordic Bay Lodge torn down.” The Mining Journal. November 15, 2015. (www.miningjournal.net).

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Categories: Postcards, Postcards Used, Restaurants

Young Hockey Players

Posted on October 27th, 2019 by

Vintage photo, white border, circa 1950s.

Price:  $4.00         Size: 4 and 7/8 x 3″

It’s hockey season again, yay!

These guys are happily posing with their sticks on a frozen stream, by the looks of it. There’s a rustic wooden bridge behind them. Easy to miss in the background is an Esso gas station sign. No writing on the back but this photo was found (at the paper fair in San Francisco) in a large box of loose photos next to other ephemera of French-Canadian origin, which we’ll be posting next…..But hey, where are the guys’ skates? And one more question:  Could the sticks have been handmade? Just wondering because of the lack of any company name appearing on them, especially on the goalie’s, the wider one, in the front center. And in googling Esso we discovered a major connection to the sport.

Cropped shot of the Esso sign appearing in the photo:

Some trivia….

First of all, did you know that the name Esso is just the pronunciation of the S and O for Standard Oil?

The first NHL game broadcast on the radio was in 1936 and was sponsored by the Esso brand.

The three stars awarded in NHL games originated as a way to advertise Imperial’s three star brand of gasoline.

See the Imperial/Esso/Mobil link for more.

Source:  Esso and Mobil:  Our History. https://www.esso.ca/en/our-history. Accessed October 27, 2019.

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Categories: Children, Hockey, Men, Old Photos, People, Photos Without Names, Snow, Sports