Found Photographs

[jcoldslabs]

Interesting, Thomas. Thanks for the info.

Here are some people standing around their vehicles.













Jonathan

[jcoldslabs]

I believe this is Shoshone Falls, Idaho.




Jonathan

[jcoldslabs]

A street scene in Steubenville, Ohio. The back reads: "4th Street, late one rainly evening, Feb. 1940."




Jonathan

[jcoldslabs]

Jonathan

[Jim Galli]

Interesting, Thomas. Thanks for the info.

Here are some people standing around their vehicles.



Jonathan

If you sit on the bumper like this man is doing for very long, you will get something called "bumper rash" on your buns.

[Scott Schroeder]

Interesting, Thomas. Thanks for the info.

Here are some people standing around their vehicles.

Jonathan,
I just spent quite some time reading into the last photo.
Lots to extrapolate.
The little girl is especially interesting.
It's interesting that she's probably passed on but here she is still a little girl.
Then there is the other girl, the one in the back vehicle behind mr. squatter.
She's older but they both have this stern, concerned look.
But the dads/drivers seem pretty chill.

[jcoldslabs]

Scott,

Some of the people in that photo may be my wife's distant relatives (why else would we have the picture?) but she isn't sure. I wonder about the situation that led to the photo being taken. Was it a passenger in the first car who got out to take it? Why are the cars stopped on the bridge? Is it a draw bridge? Was there an accident? I love this photo for all these reasons as well as the ones you mentioned. Also, every person visible in the photo is looking at the photographer. Was that planned or was the act of photographing still enough of an anomaly that it caught everyone's attention?

Also, now that I look at it more closely, the man and girl in the first car look to be the same (possibly?) as in the most recent photo I posted above.

J.

[Scott Schroeder]

yes, the front car seems to still think it's going to clear soon.
But the back dude certainly doesn't.
That;s some nice film processing that the girl in the back of the front car, as well as the one in the rear car, came out.

[jcoldslabs]

My wife's grandfather and his sister circa 1920.




Jonathan

[Keith Fleming]

Jonathan,

Is your wife from a Northwest family? If so, (and speaking as a user of the Washington State ferry system),my vote on the "bridge" photograph is that the cars are waiting for a ferry going across a river--probably the Columbia. Based on the terrain and trees in the background, the photo likely was made in the eastern part of either Oregon or Washington. In any event, you have a fine collection of family photos. Thanks for sharing them.

Keith