A Little Girl From Altoona

I'm in a cabinet card kind of mood. The cabinet card like the carte de visite was an early attempt to come up with a standardized format. Cabinet cards were approximately 4.25x6.5 inches. The back of this card was textured and I had to use the descreen setting on the scanner to get rid of the Newton rings. Altoona is a small city in west central Pennsylvania.

Occupied Japan 3

Part 3 of 3. Japan was occupied by the allies from the end of World War 2 until April 28, 1952. Unlike Germany and Austria, Japan had a civil government of its own during the occupation. Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower is an excellent book about Japan after the war. Click on occupied Japan in the labels section or navigate back to see the other posts.

The Patriarch of East Liverpool, Ohio

This guy is the stereotype of the stern family patriarch. Hard to believe that this man's life might have overlapped the life of Thomas Jefferson.

More of the Currie Boys

A friend of mine who had taken a couple of psychology courses and fancied herself a therapist once told me that my tendency to collect things was about a need to apply order to a chaotic life. Personally, I think I just like stuff. In any case, I started this blog to bring some order to a chaotic collection of old photographs, and in doing so, somehow or another these three shots of the Currie boys got separated from a couple of shots that were posted on 10/19/10. Written on the back of the balding Currie boy, "Thos. G. Currie, 323 Electric Av. E. Pittsburg, Pa. Return to Mrs. D. Currie, 323 Electric Av. E. Pittsburg, Pa." On the back of seated, civilian Currie, "Donald Currie." The E. Pittsburg is for East Pittsburg, along the Monongahela River. Probably from World War 1. Printed on postcard stock.

Occupied Japan 2

Part 2 of 3. Can anyone out there identify this city? I've been scrolling through on line photo files of Japanese cities and have found a couple of maybes but no sure fire match. Click on occupied Japan, or scroll back two posts for part one.

Cranberries

Again, the original source material for color, linen postcards are almost always hand colored black & white photographs. This one shows black migrant workers harvesting cranberries on Cape Cod.

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Printed on the back, "HARVESTING CRANBERRIES The cranberry is indigenous to Cape Cod. It is a highly profitable and highly specialized business which employs an army of scoopers to skim the great bogs for the Delectable Feast of Thanksgiving." Also, "TICHNOR QUALITY VIEWS MADE ONLY BY THE TICHNOR BROTHERS, INC. BOSTON, MASS."

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Written on the back, "Darling Tina, I wish you were with us, we are just going to the beach. The next time you go with us I suppose you will be swimming better than ever.

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Yesterday was my day to write, but Mummy wrote so I thought I would wait until to-day. Just heaps. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Me."

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Addressed to, "Miss Christine Anderson, Camp Four Winds, Mass Girl Scout Camp, Buzzards Bay, Route 2, Mass."

Occupied Japan 1

A 35 mm format, 21 frames taken in occupied Japan, presented in three posts of seven images each. What an American GI would have seen while off duty.