i’ve finished going through all of the photos and doing a bit of research!
i’ve learned that the photographer was 1 of 6 children. i believe the last photo here is of his siblings – the different ages seem to line up. i have no idea who the photographer is or if there are any photos of him here because of this. i really love his ambition when it came to photography. double exposures, images like number 8 where he exposed each half of the image separately, and photos like number 2, bringing his camera to bustling events and photographing them.
i have at least one more batch to share. selfishly i can’t help but wish there were more for me to find! i feel like there might be more out there – for example, the nicer portraits seem to be of his wife and a couple of his siblings and i have to imagine he took photos of ALL of them – but god only knows where. i’ve fallen in love with these people and i’m very excited to share these photos with their descendants.
by tylarframe
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You should do a book with all the photos you’ve shown us…I’d definitely buy one! Love seeing them!
Ohhhh! The Ferris wheel one would make a great horror book cover!
I love that cat!
I hate to sound so corny, but these photos are really special. Thanks for posting all of the installments. Something about them is so captivating! Maybe its that they are so random but together? Their “found-ness”? The mystery about everyday life before any of us viewing them can remember? So good.
These are perfect for the way we were! What a great window into the time. The baby funeral is devastating.
Now for a bit of levity, I read it as “another installment of scams” and I thought the first picture was people trying to claim being conjoined (with the heads together) and then the second was of a carnival… I find it funny how well it tracked with my misread 🙂