The Army Hospital Album 13

Finally, an actual medical procedure.  In picture number four, some blood is being taken.  But what about the first picture?  Am I wrong?  Is that guy making a rug?  And, you'll have to take my word for it.  I needed my best magnifying glass to make it out.  The guy in the second photo is reading a story called The Coffee Cup Showdown.

As usual, click on army hospital collection in labels to bring up the lot.

The Army Hospital Album 12

It must have been boring in the army hospital.  For those unaware, the military was segregated before 1948.  Click on army hospital collection in the labels section to bring up the lot.

The Army Hospital Album 11

I'll be finishing out the year with  more images from The Army Hospital Collection.  We've got  more dates with this lot.  The scrabble players and the two nurses, "MAY 55"  I keep wondering if being in a military hospital is an open ended thing.  If a soldier's enlistment is over, but he's still considered too ill for service, what happens?  Continued enlistment until recovery? Release to a VA facility?  Just plain release, left to their own devices?  And of course, what would have happened in 1955, compared to today?

Click on army hospital collection in the labels section to bring up everything.  Lots more to come.

Little Tom

I can't promise to lay off the real photo postcards, but I can say that I'll be moving on to more recently purchased images after this one.  Like the last three posts, this one goes back to my earliest days of collecting.  So, let's say I picked it up around forty or so years ago.  But who was little Tom?  On the front of the card, he's Tom Caromin (I think).  On the back, he's Thomas W. G. Cameron.

Aunt Grace

This is what comes from rummaging around in old boxes.  Written on the back of this real photo postcard, "Aunt Grace Brown age 82 & 6 months birthday Feb. 3, (83) 1939 (!938) for Mrs. Minnie Currie"  Anyway, when I collected this image, around forty years ago, I wasn't too careful about the filing system.  Click on Currie family in the labels section at the bottom of the post and see the pictures it should have been published with.  Actually, I think there is at least one more Currie post, but the name isn't in the title and I'm not scrolling back through the whole blog looking for it.

Porch Post

Well, this is a bit frustrating.  Like my last post, this real photo postcard goes back to my early days of collecting.  I suspect the two posts might be from the same source, but I didn't keep track of things like that back then, so we'll never know.

A Sunday Best Portrait

Believe it or not, I've got four copies of this real photo postcard in my collection, and they've all got that ghosted affect.  My best guess is that the film was loaded incorrectly in the camera, with the focal plane just a bit off.  For non film people, that means that the film was buckled in some way, and part of it was further form the lens than it should have been.

This image is one of the first pictures I ever bought.  I've had it in my collection for around fifty years, give or take.  All I can remember is that I picked it up in western Pennsylvania.