Children in Vintage Photos

A photo of kids in costume/fancy dress for the Vintage Photos Theme Park. Green-tinted blurry kids pose with a jack-o'-lantern before heading out for Halloween trick-or-treating sometime in the 1970s. The back of the photo is watermarked with "A Kodak Paper," which was used in the 1960s and early 1970s.

A photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park on the topic of children standing on chairs . Written on the back of this real photo postcard: "Christine Nonemaker Shutt." From what I've been able to determine, little Christine Nonemaker grew up in York County, Pennsylvania, married a William R. Shutt, and thereafter went by the name Christine A. Shutt (1913-1985). Does anyone know why there are so many studio portraits of children standing on chairs? Was there some practical reason for this, or was it just a way for the photographer to show off his stylish furniture? For more photos of kids vertically positioned on seats, see my Children Standing on Chairs album.

Written on the back of this real photo postcard: "Bertha."

Written on the back of this real photo postcard: "Eugene Myers." Printed on the verso: "The Wilson Studio. No. 225-227 W. Market St., York, Pa. No. 420 Market St., Harrisburg, Pa."

Written on the back of this real photo postcard: "Cindy, 2 years old."

Written on the back of this real photo postcard: "Grace Reber."

Written on the back of this real photo postcard: "Erma Herr." Embossed in lower right-hand corner: "Wolf, Lancaster, Pa."

There's no date or identifying information on this real photo postcard of a young girl who's posing for a picture as she stands on a chair in front of distinctively patterned wallpaper.

Written on the back of this real photo postcard: "To Grandma from her grandsons. Henry, 3 years old, and Louis, 16 months old." Embossed in the lower right-hand corner: "Louis A. Blaul, 56 N. 8th St., Phila."

Posted on the day after the U.S. presidential election as a reminder that Santa Claus isn't always who he seems to be, and he may not bring the presents we expect to receive. Here are a couple of other Santa masks, along with a masked Santa:

An undated photo.

An undated real photo postcard.

Mister Peabody , the cartoon dog in the Rocky and Bullwinkle TV show , wore eyeglasses, and Addison MacHenry, the fictional dog in Ransom Riggs's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children book series, had goggles and a pipe, but I'm not sure why the dogs in this real photo postcard are wearing glasses and a top hat, smoking pipes, and pulling a cart (mouse over the image above for a closer look ). And then there's the girl with the spinning wheel. What are these kids up to?

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A photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park that has us seeing double (a photo with 2 things/people that are the same or that look the same) . A real photo postcard that uses a double exposure to show two girls who are inexplicably pulling the same wagon that they're riding in. This trick photo is so well done that I haven't been able to detect the dividing line between the two exposures. Compare this photo with these others in which the trick is more obvious:

Detail from a trick photo of two Girls Pulling Themselves on a Wagon . For more information, see the full photo :

A photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park expressing the sentiment, I hope it's not goodbye . Like Ipernity, I don't know whether I'm coming or going most days, so I'm not sure whether hello or farewell would be appropriate, and I certainly hope we won't have to say goodbye anytime soon. This young fellow was wearing a sailor suit and coat--note the neckerchief visible on the left and the eagle insignia on the shoulder of the coat at right--as he posed for this trick photo along a dirt road with ramshackle buildings in the background. The photographer was quite skilled, however, and only a little blurriness at the top of the hill is noticeable as the result of the double exposure. It's curious, though, that there's an old shoe at the kid's feet on the left. See also the full version of this real photo postcard:

See also the cropped version of this real photo postcard: