Showing posts with label europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label europe. Show all posts
Friday, December 19, 2025

Raadskelde(r)

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  More often than not, there really isn't much research that can be done on the old photos in my collection.  But every once in a while,...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

Field Rations

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   I don't know when or where this photo was taken, but if I were to guess, I would say World War 1 .  The helmets don't look like t...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Somewhere in Europe

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  Good Germans between the wars?  I have no idea where this photo was taken, but it's printed on Gevaert Ridax paper, manufactured in Be...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

After Church

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  Over the years I've seen enough photos that can be proved to be from Europe that I think I have a good feel for a European local.  I c...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Happy New Year

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  Written on the back, "Sylvester, 1955/56" I don't know if Sylvester is the name of the photographer or the last name of the ...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

The Post War European Trip Collection-A Letter Home

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As I noted in an earlier chapter of the Gloria Lee Bigewet story,  the only exception to the photos only rule of this blog is when...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

The Post War European Trip Collection-Souvenir Snapshots 1

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When I was a kid, you could go to the local Stuckey's and by a package of five or ten 35mm slides of the local tourist a...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

The Post War European Trip Collection-Swiss Mountains

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All postcards, all published in Switzerland.  I wrote in an earlier  post that Gloria Lee was on an American Youth Hostel cycling ...
Monday, April 23, 2018

The Post War European Trip Collection-Berne 7

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I'm beginning to wish I'd posted this travel brochure as one post.  Well, at this point it doesn't really matter.  This i...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

The Post War European Trip Collection-Berne 5

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Yesterday I wrote that Gloria Lee might have been tired from all the cycling.  Keeping my earlier promise to continue with my researc...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

The Post War European Trip Collection-Berne 2

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I wonder if Gloria Lee did what a lot of tourists do.  Did she take her tourist brochure and go looking for the view pictured?  It looks...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

The Post War European Trip Collection-Berne 1

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It's time for a travel brochure for Bern, Berne in the local German dialect, the capital of Switzerland. Interesting, since the b...
Friday, April 13, 2018

The Post War European Trip Collection-Gloria Lee, Probably

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It's been more than a month since I started in on this collection, so a brief explanation why a pencil sketch  has ended up on a blo...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Sitting Near Water

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Alright, I'm assuming that the "1.VII.21"  in the lower right corner means either January 7, 1921 or the first day of July...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

The Sandy Beach

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Look what I found.  I was going through the ever growing stack of unsorted photographs on my desk when this image popped right out.  The...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

The Grand Tour

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I love this photograph.  It reminds me of all those stories I've read about the grand tour.  For the English, it was sending one...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

The Rocky Beach

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We Americans love nice, sandy beaches.  I've been on beaches on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coast, and while I've seen beach...
Friday, October 13, 2017

Is It Polka Time?

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Maybe it's a polka band, maybe it isn't. but it is a real photo postcard printed on Agfa paper.  It's also slightly larger t...
Sunday, July 2, 2017

Two Women on Vacation 4

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In the previous  post of these two ladies, I wondered if they had traveled to more than one country on their vacati...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Two Women on Vacation 2

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As promised in my last post, a clue.  In the top photo, "700 LET 1272-1972."  Clearly it's an anni...
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