I have found this photos in our outbuilding. Supposedly this woman is my grandmother's friend, but not sure. The orthography is pre-revolutionary.



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Hello everyone, I recently found these two pictures of my great, great grandparents and their children (on my father's side) in our basement. My great, great grandfather was the games keeper on a lord's estate in Wales and during this time there were rumors about him (jokes of course) that he was the brother of king George the 5th- because they look so much alike.
I was told that the youngest girl in the photo died a few years later from fever


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Edit: (May 2012)
I submitted this post on October 31st, 2011 but I guess it didn't get approved until a whole lot later. Because of the delay, most of my photos aren't going to show up. I couldn't afford to renew my website this year. Here is a link to my photobucket album which has a lot of these pictures: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v39/bentmywookie/Lucilles%20Suitcase/

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Since it's Halloween, I've finally decided to share several of my antique photos with you. I know that a lot of people think that antique photos are creepy, but I think they're just poignant and tend to have more personality. This post mainly mainly contains photos that were taken around the late 19th / early 20th century, though I can't put exact dates on any of them.


One neat thing about this particular type of photograph is that it can leave its imprint upon the backs of other photographs if they're left together long enough. I call these "ghost photos." If you look closely, you can see that there's actually traces of two different photos: a child with a tricycle, and then a photo of a girl which is slanted towards the left. I'll explain more in a second.

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Some of you will remember this vintage headshot I posted about here back in November. Well, through the power of the internet they mystery of it was solved when I was contacted by a good friend of hers last week. Details are posted here...

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Found this in a book of photographs at a junk shop, possibly in Brighton (but I can't remember). Previously posted on Flickr, these truly need an airing. This one reminds me of Life on Mars. It is probably, according to the commentators, from Toronto and was taken in 1962. Look at those troosers.

From Ebay... This is the best old man ever!

I found an actress's headshot in a suitcase full of vintage photos at a fair here in Atlanta. The back showed it was from 1963 and had her resume and other details.
Full scan of front and back and more details of my search for her here.

Found in family archives (i.e. on the grandparents' balcony in Kiev).
These are pictures of my mother as a young girl, ranging from 1972 to approximately 1975

In the zoo of Perleberg


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This man has the best hair.

Or, he did until someone took a bite out of it.


Found in the antique mall in which I work.