Faded Friends

 

I have a few more faded prints in the box, but I'm going to move on for a bit to other things.  I think, but I'm not sure, that at least some of this series come from the same source. 

Faded Ladies

   

Returning to the faded photos series.  I think youngish ladies, though the image is so faded I can't be sure.  

Easter Clothes

 

I have this stack of faded photos I was going to post in a series, but I got distracted, so before I go back to faded photo land, an Easter themed photograph. 

Written on the back, "Easter 1954 Mike-6 1/2 yrs.  Linda-4 1/2 yrs.  Green dress, white shoes, socks, purse & gloves.  Blue suit, brown shoes, white shirt and brown bow tie."  I guess the parents were worried that they wouldn't remember what their children were wearing. 

Faded Intense Stare

 

Continuing with this brief series of faded, old photos.   Anyway, I buy the occasional lot of photos, usually an envelope, where I want a couple of photos and end up with a few extras.  This is one of those extras, and like the next couple I'm going to publish, it was printed on cut up real photo postcard stock.  

Faded Rumfords

 

It looks like a faded picnic with a sign off to the right that says, "RUMFORD."  Did the Rumford clan reserve a table in the local park?  Probably.  

A Faded Couple

 

I buy a fair number of photos as lots.  I'll buy an envelope, usually to get two or three prints, and while many of them are interesting, I wouldn't buy them as a stand-alone purchase.  Anyway, I have a few faded prints that have been sitting in boxes, and not in the queue for publication.  What fascinates me about fading prints is the symbolism of people and history disappearing in plain sight.  

Ethel Raebel

 

That's the name that's written on the back of this wallet sized photo.  Whenever I have a name on a photo, I do a quick Google search just in case I can find something out there.  I found two Ethel Rabel's, one married in 1907, and since it was rare for women to keep their maiden names back then, well, it's possible, but unlikely that the Ethel Raebel from Wisconsin is the woman in this picture.  The other Ethel Raebel, from South Dakota was married in 1940.  Anyway, the hair and clothes look like they could be from the 1930s, so a possibility.