The other side of the previous post. The top photo is a postcard. As usual, when posting an album page, I show the whole page to show position, then the other photos individually. Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see the rest of the album. and fair warning, it will be a while before everything gets put up.
It's been a long time since I've posted anything from this photo album. The fact is, it's a real pain in the behind to disassemble the pages, scan, and then replace the page in the album. Call it laziness if you want. Anyway, this album is another example of true found photography. I was walking down the street, there were a bunch of garbage bags on the sidewalk, and this album was sticking out the top of one of the bags, and since it wasn't covered in some sort of nasty crap I wouldn't want to touch, it came home with me.
Chitzen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Mayans. It's located on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Chitzen Itza is translated as at the mouth of the well of Itza. The Itza were an ethnic-lineage group that once was politically dominate in the Yucatan.
Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see what else is up. Fair warning, it will be while before the entire album gets posted.
It's been a while. This is a really big collection of a traveling family's many vacations. Every time I post something I've got to take the album apart and then put it back together again. Needless to say, it's going to take some time. So, we're still in Mexico, and it's almost impossible to see it from the scan, but the middle photo is dated "JAN 74." As usual, I'm putting up the whole page to see positioning, and then a separate scan of each individual photo. The top image is a postcard labeled "Uxmal, the middle snapshot "Nunnery" and the bottom. "Rounded Pyramid." Click on the trips collection in labels to what's been posted.
This post is just the other side of the album page that I just put up. The last post was frolicking in the ocean at Acapulco. This one is ruins, ruins, and more ruins at Uxmal, an ancient Mayan city in southern Mexico. And by the way, there is a misspelling in the caption. It should be a corbeled arch, not "korbeled." So, to see more click on The Trips Collection in labels to see what's been posted. And by the way, there are a lot of pages in this album, so it will be a while before the whole album will be online.
Back to the trips album that I actually found in the garbage. A few years ago, my computer died, and while the scanner wasn't affected, I lost the software and it was too old, so the manufacturer wasn't supporting it anymore, so there went the color correction setting. Too bad, I'd love to see these photos closer to what they looked like when they came from the photo lab. Anyway, a collection of family vacation photos from multiple locations and multiple years. These are all from Mexico, and it looks like they drove from Los Angeles. Well probably, since that's where I found the album. Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see everything that's been posted.
No, I haven't purchased a new scanner. For reasons I don't understand, it just started working again. So, before it goes down again, it's back to The Trips Album. Anyway, go to labels and click on The Trips Collection and you can see what's on the other side of this album page. Still in Hawaii, still wandering around.
It's time to finish up this collection., at least that is if I don't find another page from this album. Have I mentioned how much I hate it when antique dealers cut up a photo album and sell pages individually? Well, it needs to be said. I know it's more profitable for a seller to cut up an album, but history, even anonymous family histories means something. So, girls camping and because at least one picture on this page was processed in Lamar, Colorado, I'm assuming that these pictures were taken somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. To see the whole collection, click on The Los Angles Indiana Collection in labels.
So, there I was, watching one of those PBS fundraisers when the host referred to The Beatles as the penultimate rock band. Of course, as we all know, penultimate actually means the next to the last, and this is the penultimate post for the Los Angeles Indiana collection. That is unless I find another loose album page from the same seller, which I'm beginning to accept isn't going to happen. Anyway, we've got another diversion to Lamar, Colorado, or at least the lab stamp on the back of the third picture in the column says, "Kodak Finishing, J.H. WARD Lamar, Colo." I promise the next thing I post will be the final three photos from this collection. No more interruptions and to see everything in order, click on The Los Angeles Indiana Collection in labels.
If I were being completely honest, this blog would be called The Recently Purchased Photography since almost every image I've posted was bought at a thrift store, antique store, flea market, or online. Every once in a while, however, I actually find photos and this new collection is truly found photography.
Anyway, I was walking to the pharmacy to get a flu shot and the latest COVID update, when I passed by a stack of garbage, on the curb, waiting for pickup by the trash collectors, when I caught sight of a rather large photo album just sticking out of a large, black garbage bag. After making sure it wasn't covered by rotting food or some other nasty thing I wouldn't want in my home, I grabbed it, stuffed it into my pack, and hurried off to get needles stuck in my arm.
So, when I write that this album is large, it's not just the sheer number of photos, but also, its dimensions. I couldn't get a scan of the album cover, so I had to take a photo with my cell phone camera. It was when I tried to scan the first page that I had to decide just how anal I was going to be about getting every inch of information posted. To make a long story short, after experimenting with posting the entire album page to show placement by doing it in sections, and then seeing just how unevenly lit a phone pic was, well let's just say that the date, 1971, got cropped a bit and I'm just going to have to live with it.
I don't know how long it's going to take to post this entire album. More than likely I'll go back to using one post to show the whole album page for placement and then do the individual photos in a separate post. Something to look forward to, there will be a couple of posts with no photos at all. The owner has some written pages that are kind of interesting. So, click on The Trips Collection in labels to see everything, though it could be a while until the whole album is up for viewing.
If nothing else, I'm coming to the end of The Los Angeles Indiana Collection (Click on in labels to see more.) A very quick recap, though the explanation for the collection's name can be found in other posts. I bought a couple of loose album pages from an eBay seller in Indiana, and the first page I put up had some photos with decorative borders from L.A. in sunny California. I live in Los Angeles, and it's actually been kind of overcast the last couple of days. Anyway, I already know how I'm going to finish up, so when I get around to it, only two more posts to end things.
Let's start with a bit of info on the whole collection. Click on The Los Angeles Indiana Collection in labels to see everything posted so far, and there's still more to come.
Anyway, sometimes album pages can be quite informative. The person who put the album together writes captions, or when it's possible to remove a photo that's held in place with photo corners, there's something written on the back of the print. That's not really true of this collection. There's a printer's logo on the back of the top print, but it's so faded that it can't be read. On the back of the middle print, there is a lab stamp, "Kodak Printing, J.H. Ward, Lamar, Colo." I don't know whether this family was well traveled or if it's the album itself that's made it to so many places.
I haven't been buying too many photos, just lately. To be honest, it's not a lack of interest so much as a shortage of money. Anyway, I've got to cut back a bit, and collecting old photos has taken a back seat for a while. So, it's back to the Los Angeles Indiana Collection, and you can click on that in labels to bring up the collection to date, including an explanation for the title. A couple of photo booth shots.
Well, I've been away from The New Found Photography for a while. I was out of town, and finances are a bit tight so I haven't really been increasing the size of the photo collection, and what can I say, out of sight, out of mind.
So, if nothing else, a return to the The Los Angles Indiana Collection, and by clicking on that, the whole lot can be brought up for viewing. Anyway, I called it that because on the first page I purchased from this album, there were prints with a Los Angeles-themed decorative border, and I purchased them from an eBay seller in Indiana. I had made the decision not to remove photos from album pages until it was time to scan individual photos. Perhaps I shouldn't have waited since two of these photos have information on the back, and one includes a new location. So, on the back of the top photo in the column, "Me & Aunt Lou." And on the back of the middle photo, a processor's stamp, "Kodak Finishing J.H. Ward, Lamar, Colo."
Is it even possible for me to express how much I hate eBay and antique dealers who cut up photo albums for resale? I doubt it. Anyway, I bought this page from the same eBay seller in Indiana as another page that I've referred to as The Los Angeles Indiana Collection in labels, and why I call it that is explained in the very first post in the series. So, click away to find out why and to see the other images in this series. As usual, when I put up an album page, I'll start with the whole page to show position, and then follow up with individual photos. Once again, I'm not sure how I'll lay things out, and I won't be putting them up uninterrupted, so be patient.
No more waiting for the final post from this photo album page. A few weeks ago, I bought another album page from the same eBay seller in Indiana. I don't know whether it's from the same album or not, but when I do start on it, it'll have the same label, The Los Angeles Indiana Collection, which can be used to bring up all the previous posts from this page.
