Found Photographs

[captainscot]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]118088[/ATTACH I got this glass negative in a box with with other old misc. photo stuff, it was labeled as Met life building, but i dont know if that is accurate or not... You can see the horse drawn carriages.

[dachyagel]

Yes, that is the Metropolitan Life Building in NYC (not to be confused with the Met Life skyscraper that was plopped in front of Grand Central).

It was the tallest building in the world for 4 years (1909-1913), and judging from that the surroundings, the photo was probably taken around that time or thereafter.

[Keith Pitman]

My grandfather (center), his two sisters, and their mother and father. About 1900.

[Keith Pitman]

I thought the back of this portrait was more interesting than the subject.

[Keith Pitman]

They look like they belong together, I think.

[Chauncey Walden]

Any help in identifying the military unit this guy came from would be much appreciated. It could be he was attending a fair and someone had a dress-up kit he posed in and this is not an actual soldier at all. It is most probably American, not British, despite the pith helmet. Most likely pre-1880 from the various pieces of accoutrement he's wearing (if it is a US Army uniform, the belt buckle puts it before 1873, when they changed to rectangular buckles). Beyond that I can't tell anything for certain.

[Chauncey Walden]

Scott, the rifle he is holding is an 1873 Springfield and compare his jacket with the second one here: http://www.trapdoorcollector.com/photographs1.html

[jcoldslabs]

A photo of my grandmother circa 1938 shot on Kodachrome. Knowing my grandfather's gear at the time this was probably shot with a Kodak Retina II. I inherited that camera from him and it still works just fine.




Jonathan

[Keith Pitman]

While cleaning out my mother-in-law's house a few months ago, we found a Kodak Jiffy camera with an exposed roll of 616 film in it. I developed the film and found three images of my wife and her grandmother, circa 1954. Badly fogged after 60 years, but both still recognizable. Her grandmother died shortly after the photos were taken.

[jcoldslabs]

My great-grandparents circa 1916.




Jonathan