Copy of old photo originally taken circa 1900s. Unknown photographer. Price: $15.00 Size: 10 x 8″ The first in a series of (mostly) copies of old photos of Salinas, California and environs: This one was labelled on the plastic sleeve…Read More…
Category: Old Photos
antique and vintage photos and snapshots
Cutting Wheat
An old photo, circa 1900s to 1920s, of a farmer behind a team of four (hard-working!) horses pulling a grain cutter-binder machine. That’s a riding crop the farmer is holding. And that looks like a lot of heavy equipment the…Read More…
Halbert Kids, July 1918
Old photo, dated July 1918. Availability status: SOLD Size: 6 and 7/8 x 4 and 1/2″ On the back, it looks like the location was written as “Greenhorn Mts” and there is an Ed Halbert reference showing up in…Read More…
Alfalfa Farming Family On The North Smoky
Divided back, used, Real Photo Postcard. Postmarked February 2, 1909 from Wallace, Kansas. Artura stamp box. Availability Status: SOLD A beautiful young family on a Real Photo Postcard in 1909: Their names are unknown, but there’s the dad and mom,…Read More…
Edward F. Hartley, Chicago Photographer
We love these photo studio illustrations with the studio name appearing multiple times (eight in this case, including the name under the building). The block on the sidewalk is called a carriage step, carriage stone or mounting block, if you…Read More…
Franica 1918
This area looks like the California Central Valley or the San Jose, CA area near the mountains, before all the development, when much of that area was orchards. And it’s a beautiful photo, very artistic, of little Franica, who looks…Read More…
WAB & Mother
This small studio portrait was found, in a beautiful little cream-colored wooden frame, in an antique store in Castroville, California. On the back, which was sealed up in brown paper, was written, “WAB & Mother.” This is the only clue…Read More…
A Beautiful Lady At Christmastime
“Wishing You a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.” No name on the back or photographer name, just a photo of a woman sending her Christmas and New Year’s wishes. She is perhaps in her fifties, with a very…Read More…
Woman In Fur Collar
A studio portrait of a beautiful woman perhaps in her late twenties or early thirties. She may have been somewhat well-to-do, as she’s wearing what appears to be a silk blouse or dress with a perhaps detachable fur collar in…Read More…