Found Photographs

[jcoldslabs]

[Rick A]

Another negative I'm working on from the Lenze collection, test print

[Kirks518]

I have just reading all 61 pages of this thread, and it's awesome.

I've found lots of film in old cameras, and it feels like Xmas when I do. I can hardly wait to develop them to see what presents await.

The first two were 127, and I had to monkey with the Paterson tank and reels to be able to develop them. Stand developed in HC-110 for probably about an hour. Came out ok, but I didn't adjust the amount of developer for the larger film size, so I had a nicely underdeveloped stripe along one edge (somewhat corrected in LR & PS).

The whole roll was this family, and it seems it was all shot on the same day. I came up with my own storyline - Jimmy and his wife Mary Ellen took the new baby to the family farm in Central Washington (maybe Oregon), as the family hadn't made it into the big city to see the baby. So they loaded up the '56 Plymouth Belvedere, and here we are...





On a sidenote, I tried contacting Washington State DMV, but they won't release records of ownership, even after all these years.


This was from a different camera, and as you can see, the film didn't hold up very well at all. This was the best of 4 images I was able to pull.

My guess is Grandma is going to church for one of the grandkid's communion...

[Kirks518]

This is from some miscellaneous 35mm camera. My guess is 1972-74. If anyone can recognize the school (college?) it would be cool.

[Preston Capes]

I love these images, old photographs tell us about the world we live in now and that is wonderful.

Thank you for sharing, I have some old glass plates from the 1930's of villages in East Anglia they are just views with no people in them so imagine to my surprise when I visited the villages they hadn't changed!

Pictures with people in them are a wonderful slice of social history.

[Rick A]

[jcoldslabs]

One of my wife's great aunts.

[Joe Smigiel]

Marvelous photograph Jonathon. I'm constantly amazed at the quality of these old portraits done in times of less-sophisticated equipment. The KISS principle at work. Many, if not most, modern color and digital portraits seem garish or harsh to me in comparison.

[Tin Can]

One of my wife's great aunts.

I'll say!
Great image, wonderful genes, that's a perfect nose!

Any idea what year?

[jcoldslabs]

Marvelous photograph Jonathon. I'm constantly amazed at the quality of these old portraits done in times of less-sophisticated equipment. The KISS principle at work. Many, if not most, modern color and digital portraits seem garish or harsh to me in comparison.

I agree. It's hard to know, but it wouldn't surprise me if this was lit with just window light and reflectors. Regardless, it seems both dated and timeless at the same time.

Any idea what year?

The photo itself isn't dated, but I'd guess this was around 1920 or so. To be honest, my wife can't be sure which of her grandfather's sisters this is since he had four. It's a good reminder to label and date photos for future generations. It feels weird to write out my full name on the back of a photo of myself, but if I don't in 50 years someone will look at the photo and ask, "Who the hell is this?"

Of course, since we don't have kids I really don't have to worry. Once I'm gone, that's that!

J.