Found Photographs

[jcoldslabs]

Jonathan,

The last Red Cross photo surely is a soldier taking part in a training exercise dealing with casualties. The ragged shirt is too clean and recently washed, and he looks far too relaxed to be actually wounded. And he's too clean also. Even the helmet cover has that clean, ready-for-inspection, garrison look about it. In Vietnam, real casualties with wounds as bad as the ones in the photo were always sitting or lying down from the shock of being wounded. But that photo shows training that was as realistic as it could be in an exercise.

Keith

Thanks for clearing that up. I admit that something seemed fishy to me: why would he be casually posing for a photo if he was as injured as he appeared? Still, not having been in the military, I wasn't sure what was up with that one.

Jonathan

[Jac@stafford.net]

Jonathan,

The last Red Cross photo surely is a soldier taking part in a training exercise dealing with casualties. [...]

Yes, the injury is a poorly done moulage.

[jcoldslabs]

This one is circa 1910 and features a "phantom arm" shrouded in black--most likely the mother's--to help support the child's head.




Jonathan

[Scott Davis]

A loose tintype of two friends, ca. 1860-1865

[jcoldslabs]

Scott, that's a good one. The rouged cheeks--typical of tintypes of this era, I know--seem a bit out of place on these fellows.

Jonathan

[Scott Davis]

I think even the jacket/sweater of the one on the right was colored a little. Frequently, the hand-coloring was applied with what looks to the modern eye like a garish hand, but it must have been all the rage in the day. I even have a daguerreotype or two with hand-coloring, sometimes sublte, sometimes not.

[Fred Leif]

Found in a pile of old family photos, 90% without captions.

[Jim Noel]

It is too bad the negatives haven't survived. There are several magnificent images here.

[Thad Gerheim]

Great photo Scott, I wonder if its two brothers or father-son before they went off to war. This photo was taken before two of these guys left for WW2, just incase they didn't come home.

[Thad Gerheim]

This photo was taken in 1936. The forth guy in from the right is 92 and he identified everyone else, a few of the horses and one dog for me this week! I have forty some negatives from this era taken with a cirkut camera.
This is from a scan of a 5"x15" negative, some of the negs are 26" long. I scanned this on my Tango scanner and printed it 24"x 60" (cropped the guy off on the left) framed it and donated it to the library in Stanley ID.