Looks more like a Weegee to me.
I got the negative in a box with a like new Speed 4X5, from a big collection in Ohio.
I assume the seller shot it 1951 as the license plate is 1951 Ohio, the Speed was made 1951.
I bought from a son of the collector directly out their Toledo home.
He collected any and all photo gear, found almost no negatives or prints and we searched the entire large home.
Found SF lenses in a safe, the good Leicas inside a very nice piano in an immaculate home.
One bedroom was FULL as was 1/2 the basement.
The son told me his father went to camera swaps every weekend...
The family planned to get a dumpster.
I advised sell.
They did.
Tin Can
A few days after I got back from my recent road trip, my grandmother died (dad's side). I unfortunately did not get to see her before it happened. She was 95. My grandfather died in a car accident over 20 years ago, and I know she was very much prepared to be with him again.
Because of some family things, the funeral will not be for several months. I volunteered to scan some old photos I knew she had but what I found was boxes and boxes of photographs dating back to the 40s. I didn't know she had so much, or else I'd have tried to do some of this sooner. Anyway, I plan on making a slideshow for the reception and making large prints of both of them for the service, as this will be a celebration of both their lives.
Here's a photo of the two of them, marked as being from Nov. 1954:
I am fortunate to have gotten my hands on these photographs before they were lost or sent to a budget digitizing service (which is what happened on the other side of the family).
Just seeing if anyone can offer some ideas on translating this:
I collect cased images (daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes). I removed my latest acquisition - a daguerreotype - from it's case and there was writing (in pencil) inside the case:
The writing is pretty clear, but I may be mistaken on some of it:
Mr Badgley
4/4 file Jig Vig
P. P.
3357
Alternately, the 2nd line could be:
4/4 Jill Jia Vig
As for the 4 numbers at the bottom, I was hoping that it was a date:
March 3, 1857
If it is the date that the image was made that might help me in determining the subject in the photograph, who could have been born about 10 months before the photograph was made.
Anyway, I don't want my desires clouding my judgment
Any ideas? I have had others on the forum translate 100+ year old handwriting for me and it made perfect sense.
4/4 Full figure vignette
That looks good Dugan. What would the 4/4 mean?
I only know 4/4 as a time signature in music, or as
4/4 = 1 (whole plate?), or as April 4th.
Maybe someone else will chime in with more info...
? whole Plate; how large is the image?
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