A 19th Century Wedding

I've always had a tendency to collect things, and when I was working in the photo lab, The collection of old photos, with my access to high end lab equipment really accelerated the old photo collection. I picked this image up in an antique mall, and had the people in the digital dept. clean up the image and make a neg for me. The black & white grey scale image is the end result. Printed on the back of the original cardboard mount, "Coules Palace Studio 351 S. Broadway Los Angeles, Cal. Duplicates furnished in Carbon, Platinum, or Platino. CHILDRENS' PORTRAITS A SPECIALTY. DO NOT HAVE THIS PICTURE DUPLICATED. THE NEGATIVE IS ALWAYS PRESERVED FOR FUTURE ORDERS."

Fete Eve, A Lesbian Wedding

France in the twenties? Life without men? This is a great snapshot of a group of women, some dressed as men, at a wedding ceremony.

Male Bride, Female Groom

When a couple decides to cross dress, and they are not the same size, it's not a spur of the moment lark, it's something planned. This farm couple, way back in the 1920s 0r 30s, at some point, decided to take some wedding photos as the opposite sex. On the horizontal image, it looks like they've got a child joining in on the fun.

A 1937 Wedding

I like these wedding photos because of the shots of the couple arriving for the ceremony. Dated May, 1937, the Honeymoon, with the couple wearing suits and dresses in the tropics, isn't' something we'd see today.

Alabama Police Wedding

I don't have a lot of wedding pictures in my collection, but this one was too interesting to pass on. Probably from the mid to late fifties to early sixties, this image shows the groom and best man in Mobile, Alabama Police uniforms. One of the things that, as a collector of old photographs, I often find myself doing is speculating about the people seen. These two gentleman, officers of a deep south police force, during the civil rights movement; looking at it, I couldn't help but wonder if the groom went from his honeymoon to beating civil rights marchers.