Found Photographs

[Scott Davis]

A 1903 or 1904 Winton, I believe. If anyone has a better idea of the make of car, I'm all ears.

[Scott Davis]

Ca. 1840-45 Daguerreotype. Although the mat has mild corrosion, the image plate itself is in remarkably good condition, and is a beautifully exposed and crafted image to begin with.

[Jim Cole]

My 88 year-old father-in-law passed away just before Thanksgiving and while going though his wife's house, looking for old photographs to use in a memorial, we came across several in an old box. I've presented a few below that were originally 2x3"to 3x5" prints. I scanned them and cleaned them up to make larger prints to give to the five siblings as remembrances. At the bottom, I've also shown the oldest print we found of my mother-in-law as a baby being held by her Godmother. The original prints are so small, that it's hard to see faces and details. Scanned at 2400 dpi, they begin to reveal real faces and places. I hope you enjoy them.

Edward J. Maexner, 1924-2012

As a boy with his two sisters, circa 1932


Ed & Sisters by JCole2008, on Flickr


Ed with his unit, ski training. He is on the far left.


Ed on Ski Patrol by JCole2008, on Flickr


Ed with his unit in Europe, WWII. Again he is on the far left.


Ed & Group WWII by JCole2008, on Flickr


Ed somewhere with his artillery unit, WWII. He is the guy in the center that looks like Radar O'Reilly.


Ed with Artilery WWII by JCole2008, on Flickr


Continued...

[Jim Cole]

The last two of Ed & Mary Maexner:

And here he is after the war in 1947 with his buddies at the Palisades. They look like a bunch of movie stars here. He's back row, center.


Ed & Friends at Palasades by JCole2008, on Flickr


And finally, this is my mother-in-law, Mary, now 85, at about 2 years of age, circa 1929 on one of the beaches near New York.


Mary Maexner with Godmother by JCole2008, on Flickr

[Winger]

My grandmother passed away in 2010 at the age of 97. Among everything else, my parents found a fair number of photos (not many negatives, unfortunately). Here are two. One is my grandmother being held by an aunt (presumably in either 1913 or 1914). The other is my grandmother's mother at the age of 3 1/2. That one is taped to a piece of heavy paper and the tape and paper have all yellowed.

[C. D. Keth]

Jim, the moviestar look is really completed by that painted backdrop. It must have been a small studio to stick them that close to it in the corner!

[Fred Leif]

Here's a photo of my grandfather and grandmother on their wedding day in Tacoma, WA. Neat how the photographer used a horseless carriage as a photo prop, and the painted background.

[Jim Cole]

Yeah, it's a shame that it was so noticeable. It was taken in somewhere in the Palisades in NY or New Jersey. I'm thinking it might have been at the Bear Mountain Park. All the photo shows on the back is a handwritten note, "The Palisades, 1947".

Jim, the moviestar look is really completed by that painted backdrop. It must have been a small studio to stick them that close to it in the corner!

[Jim Cole]

Here's a photo of my grandfather and grandmother on their wedding day in Tacoma, WA. Neat how the photographer used a horseless carriage as a photo prop, and the painted background.

That's a classic, Fred. Love the hat on your grandfather.

[Randy]

This is turning into an obsession for me. Now my girlfriend is buying old pictures and giving them to me as Xmas gifts...and I love it.

The envelope this one came in says "1939" but I have no idea if that is correct. I googled the photography studio but came up with nothing. Sure would be nice if there was an internet resource of photography studios, say WWII and before, with their years of operation so we could narrow it down.