Showing posts with label studio portrait. Show all posts
Showing posts with label studio portrait. Show all posts
Friday, September 11, 2026

Howard's Photos, Altoona

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  The only reason I bought this Cabinet Card is because I grew up an hour's drive or so from Altoona, Pennsylvania.  I'm also fascin...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

McConnell, Photographer, Letterkenny

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  Well, that's what is stamped on the back.  Almost certainly Thomas McConnell , a commercial photographer who had a studio on Market Sq...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

A Fascinating Face

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  A fascinating face, indeed.  There's something a bit masculine in her visage.  The chin and brow line seem more male to me than female...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

A Good-Looking Young Lady

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   Good-looking in a 1950s, pre-glam era.  Save us all from Mar-a-Lago face. 
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Ethel Raebel

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  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 sea...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

The Cut Down Cabinet Card

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  I hate it when people do this.  Someone at some time cut up a cabinet card .  Maybe it was so it would fit in a frame, or a wallet.  In an...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Camp Blanding

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  There's no name or date on this portrait, but because of the sepia style, I'm guessing it's from the World War 2 era.  Anytime...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Veda & Cambell

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  There was a time when many people carried family pictures around in their wallets.  The type of photo labs that I used to work in was more...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Mother & Daughter

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  Probably, though for all I know they could be any sort of relative or no relation at all.  
Saturday, May 1, 2021

Swedish Portraits 6

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  Another carte de visite from Sweden.  I can't imagine that all these photos aren't from the same family.  Click on Swedish CDVs to...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Swedish Portraits 5

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  Another Swedish portrait  from the studios of Arvid Kierling.  Click on Swedish CDVs in labels to see more. 
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Swedish Portraits 4

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  I'm beginning to think I should have called this the Arvid Kjerling collection.   Anyway, click on Swedish CDVs in labels to see more....
Thursday, April 8, 2021

Swedish Portraits 3

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  I can't imagine that all of these photos from Swedish Photographer Arvid Kjerling aren't related in some way.  Some are clearly fr...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Swedish Portraits 2

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  Well, the lady on the left is the same woman form the last post, so if nothing else we know that this photo goes with the previous.  I was...
Thursday, April 1, 2021

Swedish Portraits 1

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  I just picked up some CDVs that were taken in Sweden.  I'm trying to buy a few more, so even though there almost all certainly from th...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Mason City, Again

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  Of the four cabinet cards I purchased, this is the one that might not show a member of the Rayburn family.  So, a bit about photographer o...

Springfield

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  It's pretty obvious that the man is Eddie Rayburn from the previous post.  I still can't find any info on the Rayburn family, but ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Mason City

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  I hadn't purchased any cabinet cards for awhile, but I just picked up four of them at a reasonable price.  Two of them have names writ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Music To My Ears 6

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I still haven't quite figured out what name this woman eventually ended up using, at least professionally.  Mary Reagan and Ann Park...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Music To My Ears 5

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Stamped on the back, "PLEASE CREDIT Kerr 43 west 51st street new york, n. y. eldoarado 5-3178."  And yes, they did use lower c...