Dennisons, Philadelphia circa 1914

The front of the store in the previouis post with some men standing in front.

Old Car

Jumping away from that album to post this one just because I like the picture a lot. Don't know anything about it, who the people are or even for sure what kind of car, just like the picture and hope any visitors here do also.

Store Interior

This is the inside of a store circa 1914. The store was Dennisons in Philadelphia, apparently a drug- general merch type. I bought this and a few others from the same seller so have one of the outside that I will post later. I love these kind of photos especially where you can see some of the items for sale or signage paticular to the period.

Ladies

Another from the same album, group of handsome ladies and one lucky gent, love the hats.

Rightside Up ( I hope)

Finally getting around to fix the last post and if I am uploading the right version of it this should look better. If not you will never know as I'll shut down and go to bed, try to fix it over the weekend. OK so someone does read this stuff, thanks Mike, glad to know you are out there. As long as someone enjoys it it will motivate me to keep posting.

Rail

Another photo that came out of the same album as the man with the bycycle. OOPs, forgot to turn it before posting. I'll turn it and edit later, in the mean time turn your monitor on its side and enjoy, heck nobody looks at this stuff anyway.

His Bike

A dapper looking gent out walking his bike around. From an album I've had for awhile that I'm not sure if its US or European. Some of the dress and scenes tell me its not US but others seem like they were from here. I usually like pics from the US but either way this album has some nice pictures in it.

Keystone Captol Building

Half of a Keystone Stereoview Card showing the US Capitol building and cars parked around it. This card is pretty clean and clear, any blur here is caused by my flatbead scanner and the curve of the card.

Haymarket Square

This is half or a Stereoview showing Haymarket Square in Chicago, early 1900's. For those not up on Chicago history Harmarket was famous for ariot in the late 1800's where anarchists threw a bomb that killed something like eight police officers which is the cause of the monument seen in the photo. Chicago Historical or the police historical has a nice online site about it but I don't have it bookmarked. I'm sure a google search would turn it up for anyone with interest. This photo isn't great, the card pretty dirty and curved so hard to scan but you can see in it some of the architecture and in the lower left a policeman wearing the same period "keystone cop" kind of uniform as that on the statue.

Keystone

This is a Keystone Glass Slide, #31 with a view of New York City. Keystone and others publislhed some great images on these slides although not as handy to look at as a paper photo maybe. This one is prety nice, any defects here are likely my scan rather than the image itself.

If anyone has any good suggestions for cleaning these slides I would welcome hearing them.

Inside the Store

The postcard promised a couple of posts back, inside view of a general goods type store.

Tintype and its back

I did it again, ignore the post below, supposed to go on the other blog. I could delete it but too lazy. Brain is not clicking tonight, had to look twice to see what pic I was going to post here becaue I forgot. Anyway this is a tintype and the back with the photographers stamp ( I hope)

The backs are often neat, some fancy and some comical, this one attracting folks that don't want to spend much money. See them more often on cabinets and Cdvs obviously but this had the paper folder still with it.

Overdue maybe but still here

I know it's been too long, made my excuses on the other blog and don't want to ramble on redundantly so if you need to go read that but nothing really worth it. The picture here is a group of teachers from the early 1900's, sorry but location not known. I will try to keep the posts coming and keep them interesting so check back with me.

Vintage Postcard

OK, obviously I lost it with this blog, not posting for quite some time. Not really a loss of interest or anything like that, not sure why but I haven't abandoned the idea. This is a postcard that came with an old photo album I bought recently. Unfortunately no information on or with it about the subjects.

There was another that I will post soon, interior view of this store or another, not sure. In the future I will likely mix things up a bit, photos, ( the original idea of the blog) but also the vintage ads and illustrations from the old magazines I collect here and there. I wont change the name of the blog but the ads are likely to be more numerous as I just have more of them. Hoping that if people look here now and then they will be happy with this, that the whole idea of course, to share with those of similar interests.

More School

I admit to not taking much time picking a picture for today, skimed through my books and took this one, first school picture I found. Looks like one of those where a number of grade levels were lunked in together, There is some writing on the back but is covered with scrapbook so I do not know where this was.

High School 1917

A couple of pics from Springvalle High in 1917. Not sure where Springvalle might be. Doesn't look too serious about that tug of war. What goes through my mind when I look at it is the date. In a year some or all of those young men will be in France facing who knows what. How quickly happy days can pass.

Only Packard can make a Packard

Makes sense, had Ford tried to make a Packard it would have still been a Ford. Just one that looked like a Packard.

1896 Cabinet

This is a cabinet photo taken in Chicago in the year 1896. There is a name on the back but it's hard to read. The first name is Pearl which was the name of one of my teachers in high school. One day when she had come into the class a little late I greeted her by saying too loudly "Hello Pearl" ( I thought I was funny then for some reason) All I remember is her grabbing my ear and taking me to the vice principal who was a very large man with one arm. He thumped me soundly in the chest with a big stubby finger while he explained to me how I wasn't funny at all. I get it now of course but I don't think I did then. Not sure why I share this other then I have to wait for this to upload for the post. I do feel sorry for the teachers I probably made things a little more difficult for then they should have had to deal with.

This lady is attractive and I do like her fashion sense.

International Harvester

I don't know the location of this photo, some googling on the name might provide it. There are some things I like in it, the old gas pump for one. What is interesting to me is that the gas pump is there but everything you see is horse pulled.

What is it?

This is not a contest, I couldn't declare a winner because I don't know what it is. It came out of an album and has a postcard back. There are things that make me think it is a military item and other things that make me think its some kind of farm machinery.

The album it came from had some nice military type pictures in it ( the picture of the lewis gun if you've been with me awhile). Unfortunately it was one of those albums where the owner didn't write any descriptions. After all they knew what it was. Be glad to hear any good ideas though.

Whatever it was it obviously had seen better days.