A Nautical Wedding

You might have to click on the image and bring it up in a bigger window to see, but the groom has pins on his lapels that look kind of like anchors.  So was he in the navy, and if so, which one, or perhaps the merchant marine.  Then again, he might have been crew on one of the big ocean liner that once moved people from Europe to North America.

Hillside Bride

Nothing is written on the back of this print, and that's a shame.  I bought this one here, in Los Angeles, and so I'm assuming it's a shot of one of the many hills of L.A.  What's interesting to me is that the hill is so bare.  There aren't a lot of hillsides in soCal that haven't been developed, and properties with views go for a lot of money.  I know something of fashion photography, but not a lot about fashion itself.  Still, the young lady looks pretty stylish to me, and I can see her and her husband up on the ridge line looking down on the city.

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This one's odd because it's so clearly from a different era than most of the other photos.  And why so many wedding photos?

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It's time to start the final push on the Waterbury photo album.  There are five more pages to go, and I won't take any more breaks until they're all posted.  Not every photo in the album is a wedding photo, but it seems right that this final sequence starts with a bride.

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There are a  lot of wedding and wedding related photos in this album, and it's always had me wondering.  a family with lots of marriageable men and women, or is this some sort of photographer's sample album.

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Take a close look at the drapery, flowers, and columns in the background.  It's clearly a painted backdrop.  Click on Waterbury Box Co. Album in labels to see more.

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I suppose that one of the nice things about doing the albums is that I can really spread out the commentary as well as the pictures.  The wedding photos that dominate this album make me wonder how many people got married in this family at about the same time.  Latter on, we'll get to some more recent images which I think negates the idea of a photographer's sample collection.

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Once again, it's time to return to the Waterbury album.  If there's only one image per page, that's all I'll post, but if there's more than one, I'll start with the page to show position and then move on to an individual scans.

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Have I said how frustrating it is that this album has no captions.  Anyway, I'm going to leave this album for a month or so.  Click on Waterbury Box Co. Album in the labels section at the bottom of the post to see more.

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Bride, groom, maid of honor, and best man would be my guess.   Click on Waterbury Box Co. Album in labels to see the rest.

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Looks like it's the whole wedding party on this one.  The bride and groom are pretty obvious, and then there are the bridesmaids and groomsmen.  The location doesn't look like a studio, so I'm guessing either the church, reception hall, or the bride's home.

It's time to leave this album for awhile.  I'll pick things up in another month or so.  Click on Waterbury Box Co. Album in labels to see the lot.

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I certainly have more control with the new scanner, but I'm still not sure how well I can make it work. There was something reassuring, but also frustrating about having to take what the machine provided.

Anyway, let's forget my frustrations for a moment.  The second photo looks more like the bridesmaid, rather than the bride.  The first photo, a studio portrait, but what kind?  Did the woman just want a nice picture of herself, or was it taken as part of the whole marriage process?

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One of the big pains about loosing all of my files, is that I had disassembled this album and scanned the whole thing to the computer.  Now, I'm stuck with starting over again.  This photo is floating on the little used 8 1/2 x 11 paper format, printed in what we in the lab business would call a museum position, a fancy way of saying there's a lot more border under the image than above.

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12/13/14

Got to admit, this post would never had occurred to me if I hadn't been listening to all news radio this morning.  Flash, today's date, December 13, 2014, can be written as 12, 13, 14.  Now, I don't buy into the whole numerology thing, but a lot of people do.  It seems that numerical coincidences like this mark big days for weddings, lottery ticket sales, and casino gambling.  In short, Las Vegas wedding chapels and strip casinos are doing turn away business today.  No idea when this picture was taken, but I'm hoping for January 23, 1945.  In other words, 1, 23, 45.  I was born ten years latter on January 23, 1955.  Close, but no cigar.

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I'm getting a backlog on photo albums, so I guess it's time to start another one.  I'll be following my usual practice.  Each post will be of a single album page, if there's more than one photo per page, I'll scan the page first, to show position, then each individual photograph.  If there's only one photo, I won't bother.

This album is too big to fit an entire page on the scanner.  Despite that limitation, I haven't had to break up any pages into sections.  Most of the photos in this album are 8x10 contact prints, so most of the album pages only have one photo. The majority of the pictures look like they're from the 1920s. but there are a few that aren't of that period.  Many of the photos have slight indentations around the edge of the print, indicating, that at one time they were in frames.  I suspect that this album was put together at a date well after all the photos were taken, which accounts for the mixed eras.  While some of the photos were glued to pages, most use photo corners.  A couple of pages don't have photos, but do have corners.  Weather those photos fell out, or were removed, I haven't a clue.  

There are enough pages in this album, that I won't be posting them one right after the other.  I'll post a few, move onto other things, then at some point in the future I'll put up a few more.  As far as the title of the album goes, as cheap Carny fortune tellers like to say, "In time, all will be revealed."  Really, the title of this album comes from a couple of prints near the end of the album, so be patient.  It is a virtue, as they say.

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