Candids By Lee

From the fifties or sixties. Stamped on the back, "CANDIDS BY LEE 2466 W. ARMITAGE AVE. BE. 5-8187 SP. 2-1980" A couple at a party with the mother-in-law.

A Southern Family

I was told that these pictures were of a family from northern Louisiana, though there is a processor's stamp on the several of the prints from a lab in San Antonio, Texas. The stamps read "THE FOX CO. SAN ANTONIO, TEX." Some of the prints are dated Jan. 1950, and others, Aug. 1950. The head shot of the young lady with the big hair is a wallet sized print, and written on the back, "Lois Goodman age 15"

Southern Belles

A collection of wallet size photos purchased from an estate in Mississippi. I guess the guy was a lady's man.

Woman With Glasses

Same woman, same glasses, three different outfits. No date or ID, though those glasses look like something from the fifties. I always find portraits of women to be far more interesting than portraits of men. So much variety.

Government Hospital

I actually bought these two photos with the two images in the previous post, but because they seem to be from two separate sources, I split the collection. Written on the back of the horizontal image, "Taken Armistice Day all patients Government Hospital." Perhaps a veterans hospital for World War 1 vets.

Woman With One Leg

No date or identification on these two photographs of a woman amputee and her nurse, though there is a thirties/forties era car in the background of one image.

Crashed Plane World War 1

It's been awhile since I've put up any of these World War 1 press photos. Again, I know a lot about photo printing, but not much about press imagery. I think, but am not certain, that the originals are rotogravures. When I worked in the photo lab, I made a black & white copy neg from the one image and made a regular black & white print. The crashed plane is labeled, "German plane C.L. 111 a 3892-18 brought down between Montfaucon and Cierges." The other image is labeled, "A Breguet bomber. While the ground soldiers were pushing back the Germans through the Argonne bombing planes went forth each night to increase the enemy troubles. These bombers destroyed railway lines, supply bases and munitions dumps behind the lines. Photo by U.S. Air Service." Note the U.S. Official and Signal Corps U.S.A. logos.