Vintage Photos of Things

The cabinet card photo of Joseph Ritner's gravestone is damaged, and there's no indication of a photographer's name or date. For more information, see the cropped version of the photo.

The left-hand photo of Joseph's Ritner's gravestone is a nineteenth-century cabinet card, and the one on the right is a photo I took in 2015. The brick building in the right-hand photo is the Mount Rock United Methodist Church. For additional information, see the original cabinet card photo .

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of clocks . This is an early twentieth-century photo of the Floral Clock in Detroit's Water Works Park. According to Floral Clock at Water Works Park , an article by Dan Austin on the HistoricDetroit.org site, the "clock ran on cup-shaped paddlewheels that moved as water flowed. The clock itself was made up of more than 7,000 plants that were held in place by chicken wire." For additional views of this remarkable timepiece, see Floral Clock at Water Works Park - Old photos and Postcards of Floral Clock at Water Works Park . This is an unused real photo postcard, and the type of Azo stamp box (with four corner triangles pointing up) printed on the other side suggests a possible date that may be as early as 1904 to 1918.

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of cold, freezing, or frozen . Handwritten caption: "Gladys & the Ice Burg, Moffat, Colo." This is a real photo postcard addressed on the other side to Miss Grace Roger, Rich Mountain, Ark., and postmarked Moffat, Colo., March 1, 1911. Message: "Moffat, Colo., March 1, 1911. Hello Girlie,You bet I recd your letter and answered it & am anxious for an answer. Want to hear the rest of that news you have for me. Does this look like spring. This is some of my own work. This is a water tank where the railroad engines get a drink. Say but I would enjoy a sweet breath from those fruit tree blossoms. There isn't such a thing in this desert. We are fine & dandy. Write soon you naughty girl. As ever, M." For a similar photo, see Frozen Water Tower .

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of screens - indoor, outdoor, any kind . Handwritten note on the other side of this snapshot: "First set we had." A photo of an early RCA Victor television set, possibly a 9-T-246 model with a ten-inch screen from the late 1940s or early 1950s. Compare this with the RCA 9T246 on the Early Television Museum's site. For another early TV, see Philco Television Set, 1948 .

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of a tabletop or desktop and the things on it . Handwritten note on the other side of this snapshot: "This is my work bench in the supply office." This is an undated snapshot of a desk or workbench in an unidentified "supply office." Arranged on the desk are a pen in a holder, a travel alarm clock, some sort of metal boxes, another pen, an ashtray, a large photo of a woman, a desk calendar, another ashtray (this one full of cigarette butts), a telephone, and a half empty cigarette pack. Ten or more photos and documents are visible through the glass that covers most of the desktop. Paper trays are mounted on the wall to the right of the desk, and a pencil sharpener attached to the wall above the desk is partially visible on the left.