Found Photographs

[DBuck]

I think the pistols were a prop of the era. I have a set of three small photos (possibly a PingPong photo), late 1890s/early 1900s, of my grandfather, in one of which he is holding a small revolver, possibly a prop gun, and wearing a goofy cowboy hat. Even with photos taken in the 19th century American West, the subjects are sometimes so festooned with revolvers, rifles, and knives, that one can only conclude it's for show. Not every person went around looking like Wild Bill Hickock. A colleague recently observed that the same decorated & fringed buckskin jacket reappearing in several different portrairs, indicating the jacket belonged to the photographer, not the subjects.

[Bob Salomon]

I think the pistols were a prop of the era. I have a set of three small photos (possibly a PingPong photo), late 1890s/early 1900s, of my grandfather, in one of which he is holding a small revolver, possibly a prop gun, and wearing a goofy cowboy hat. Even with photos taken in the 19th century American West, the subjects are sometimes so festooned with revolvers, rifles, and knives, that one can only conclude it's for show. Not every person went around looking like Wild Bill Hickock. A colleague recently observed that the same decorated & fringed buckskin jacket reappearing in several different portrairs, indicating the jacket belonged to the photographer, not the subjects.

For my daughter’s high school graduation pictures in the late 1970s in northern NJ the photographer posed her with an old Colt 45 in her hands,

[tgtaylor]

here's one of my own that I found a week or so when rummaging thru stuff:



It's printed on 8x10 RC glossy but I am going to reprint it on 16x20 or maybe even 20x24 fiber.

Thomas

[Tin Can]

Lol

[tgtaylor]

Lol....Doesn't that just piss you off?

[Tin Can]

Lol

Nope, this is the Insane LF Forum...

No?

[invisibleflash]

here's one of my own that I found a week or so when rummaging thru stuff:



It's printed on 8x10 RC glossy but I am going to reprint it on 16x20 or maybe even 20x24 fiber.

Thomas

Too bad, not even the watermark is left?

I have a huge, huge found archive 25,000+ images, films 500+ and tons of ephemera and audio.

Here is one up your alley...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy5bTWqSd3k

[Corran]

Got around to scanning the batch of film I found last month. Since it's about to be October, here's an interesting frame in the bunch:

[Corran]

This thread needs reviving.

A boy and his dog:

[Corran]

Found a horde of negatives in Bay St. Louis Mississippi - a city on the Gulf Coast between Biloxi and the Louisiana state line. The antiques shop I was in wanted $100 for the lot but I really didn't want thousands of old negatives, a lot of them worthless, so I quickly parsed through them and grabbed about 40 interesting photos.

This one was a larger 3.25 x 4.25 negative, an oddball in the lot of mostly 120 films. I have no idea what's going on here but it reminds me of theatre production photos taken for the local newspaper to advertise, at least the ones I've done or been a part of: