The Trips Album 8

 

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.  

The Trips Album 7

 

I'm going crazy with this one.  For some reason, Blogger isn't working the way it has in the past.  Oh well, it is what it is.  The top two photos in the column are dated "JAN 74."  Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see what has been posted. 

The Trips Album 6

 

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. 

In Old Egypt

This one's a real photo postcard.  The back has a standard Kodak manufactured K Ltd. stamp block, with no other identifying marks that would, more often than not, be present on a card published for mass sale.  So I'm fairly confident that this card was printed up for one of the people in the photo.  But which one, and why were they in Egypt?  Standard issue tourists, seeing the wonders of the world?  Or were they part of the American religious community that has always headed to the middle east to see sights from the Bible?  I found this one in an antique store that I visit from time to time.  If I get lucky, I'll find another one of these cards with something written on the back.  If these people are all headed off to the casinos of Monte Carlo or a French bar, we'll know they were out for a good time.  But if Egypt was followed by Bethlehem and Jerusalem, then we have a church group.  I'd prefer it if these people were tourists out to have a good time, but my gut tells me, church people.