Where Oh Where

 

I know it's not much of a picture, but it looked really familiar.  I'm convinced I've either been inside this building, or I've seen a better picture or postcard of it somewhere.  The woman to the right of the fountain looks somewhat 1930s.  Stamped on the back, "KODATONE"  Kodatone was a self-toning paper made by Kodak, though this picture doesn't look all that toned to me. 

The Post War European Trip Collection-Berne 6

So, where does  the water come from?  L'historie was easy, but I had to look up Les fontaines.  I assumed it was fountains and was right, but everyone I know makes the mistake of assuming that words from languages other than English, that sound similar to words in English mean the same.  Sometimes they do, but more often than not, they don't.

Click on The Post War European Trip Collection, and all that.

The Here, There, and Everywhere Collection-The One With the Hole In the Print

Also, damaged emulsion.  What looks like a paper hat on the lady is actually part of the print literally pealing away from the paper.  So, no info on the print, guessing from the twenties.  Just think, in three years I'll have to be more specific.

Click on The Here There and Everywhere collection in labels to see more photographs and to find the meaning of the title.

Views of the World, Fountain At Leiria, Portugal

Well, this is interesting.  I did the basic Google search trying to find something worth passing on about the city of Leiria.  Didn't find a lot.  Mostly that there's a castle on a hill, Portugal's only motion picture museum, and another museum dedicated to paper.  Leiria is home to Portugal's first paper mill.  Pretty dull stuff but then I started looking for images, and found this very postcard for sale....in Europe.  Then another, and another one after that all in Europe.  But the stamp block on the back mentions U.S. and Canadian postage rates.  So an American postcard of a European scene ends up in Europe.  The big question, were the cards in this series made for export?

Click on Views of the World in labels to see the rest.