Monday, March 18, 2024

The Strand


  

This is another one of those throw-in photos I get when I buy envelopes of old photographs.  There are always a few that I'd never buy as a stand-alone purchase, but I end up with them as part of a lot.  Anyway, I noticed that there is a piece of paper on the desk he's leaning against that is headlined, "STRAND."  I thought it might be a hotel room service menu, and there are a lot of Strand Hotels out there, so it's a possibility.  Far more Strand Hotels than I expected.  Dated "NOV 67."  

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

The Trps Album 3





 

As a rule, I don't publish text-only posts, but this is an exception.  Over time, I'll be putting up this entire album, and since the lady who put this album together typed out these four pages of reminiscences of her trip to Mexico, well here it is.  And by the way, I didn't crop out some of her text. There are a couple of lines where she typed beyond the edge of the page. Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see everything that has been posted and will be posted in the future.  That is if my scanner doesn't die again.  

Friday, March 1, 2024

Random Japanese Snapshots 6



  

I'm still having problems with the scanner, so when it started working again, I figured I should get something posted while I still could.  So, a photo plus what's written on the back from an envelope of photos I purchased from an eBay seller in Japan.  And once again, if anyone out there can translate what's written on the back of the print, please leave it as a comment.  Click on random Japanese snapshots collection in labels to see what's already been published. 

Monday, January 29, 2024

Nagra and The Beatles



 

I don't walk by there all that often, but about an hour's stroll from my apartment, there is a store that has a rack of advertising postcards that I sometimes look at just to see if there's anything that I'd like to add to my ever-growing collection of ephemera.   Anyway, I liked the photo of the old Nagra tape recorder, so I scarfed this one up and brought it home.  Because I didn't want to do free advertising for an event, I decided to hold onto it until after it was over.   And no, I didn't go, though I would have liked to.  Who doesn't love The Beatles? 

Sunday, January 28, 2024

Hermann Tietz


  

I don't often have enough to go on to research my photos, but every once in a while.   Take a look at the top of the print, and the name "HERMANN TIETZ" can be seen.  Hermann Tietz was a German-Jewish businessman.  He was born in 1837 and died in 1907.  He and his brothers, Oskar, and Leonard founded a chain of department stores in Germany.  In 1900, the largest store in the chain was opened in Berlin. In 1934, all Tietz holdings, both department stores and factories were Aryanized and a forced sale was made to rival Georg Karg, who rebranded the stores as Hertie Department Stores. 

The words (at least the second and third word) on the bus in the foreground translate as 
Stranger Tours.  Special tours for first-time visitors to Berlin, perhaps. 

Sunday, January 21, 2024

500,000


 

 Sometime in the last couple of days, The New Found Photography went over 500,000 individual page views.  I have no idea if that's impressive or not, but just to mark the milestone, a repeat from my very first post. 

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Random Japanese Snapshots 5




Since my scanner inexplicably stopped working and then, equally mysteriously, began working again,  I've decided to put up another post from the Random Japanese Snapshots Collection (Click on that in labels to see more.)  Anyway, there's nothing written on the back of any of these prints, but there is a stamp on the back of the middle photo with the truck.  "28. 2. 27" I'm tempted to think that's a date in the European style with the date first, then the month, and then the year.  But the truck doesn't look that old. My guess is it's from the forties or early fifties, which would make this a post-war photograph.