These two images are a set as far as I'm concerned. These are my mother's mother's parents. The top image has the following written on the back: back reads: "To my dear Kathryn, John & Jane. Easter 1931. Age 73". A very sweet Easter gift.




The second has written: back reads: "Mother (Ida Moore Morris) Dec. 1928 age 70".




These two images really embody the popular style of the time. Very reminiscent of Hollywood publicity photography, these images were surely shot on large format film and meticulously retouched by hand. That is what gives them the soft, luminescent quality in the skin.

A quick note...

I'm not sure what I'm doing here other than sharing my collection of vintage photography. The images that interest me the most are the ones that embody a strong sense of history or mystery. The history part might be in the dress or actions or surroundings pictured or it might be the photograph itself, the object or process used to get the image on paper (or glass or whatever). The mystery part is in the content of the image. I don't write well about photography so I will try to avoid long discourse on the imagery and I'm not very good at identifying print types either. When I can I will give some history about the image as an object (what kind of print it is) and about the content of the image. That's all. We'll see where it goes.

A stern looking bunch.

My grandmother is second from the right. She and the boy in the center sort of look like they're in trouble.