Tag: antique
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Wilmington, March 2025
There is a building near Greenfield Lake that used to have a handful of old cars and trucks parked in the yard. I took photos of them about 15 years ago. Today I talked to the man who owns that building and found that he used to rent old cars to the movie studio here…
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Auto Shop in Central Illinois
Somewhere in a small town southwest of Chicago, there is an auto parts and service shop. The building looks like it must have been erected in the 1950s or 1960s. I noticed this building quite a few years back, as I drive past it on the way to work when I’m in this area. I…
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Vintage Cameras
Here are a few of the vintage cameras from my collection. There are two Polaroid Land Cameras – an Automatic 210, and a J66, then there is a Kodak Instamatic 304 and a Kodak Pony 135 Model B. These cameras all date from around the late 60s to early 70s.
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Antique Cameras (A Few More)
Here are some shots of a handful of my antique cameras. First is the Kodak Colorburst 50, Kodaks experimental foray into the world of instant film. I believe they were eventually sued by Polaroid and discontinued the line. I thought it appropriate for that one to be in color. Next is the Brownie Target Six-16,…
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Polaroid SX-70, et al.
Here are a few from my collection. A 1970s Polaroid SX-70, distinctive for being Polaroids only SLR. This one was given to me by my Uncle Harry. Also an Agfa Shur-Shot, which is a box camera from possibly the early to late 1930s, and a Kodak Tourist. The Tourist is a folding camera which dates…
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Cameras
I own quite a collection of cameras. I estimate there must be about sixty to seventy cameras in my collection. The oldest is a Kodak Junior 1A Autographic, circa 1917.
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Photos from Spain / Gibraltar
So Daphy and I went to Spain this past week. We started off in Gibraltar, where we hiked all over the rock for an entire day and saw all sorts of historic military tunnels and installations dating back to the 1700s. Also monkeys. I’m not a big fan of having wild monkeys all over the…
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Rescued Film Project – Rescued WWII
Here is a fairly large gallery of images from found film, taken during WWII. They were developed by The Rescued Film Project. Now, normally when you see these galleries, they are images of things happening in Europe, where the fighting was taking place; pictures of destroyed street corners, blown-up equipment, etc. These, however, show what was…
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25 Vintage Police Record Photographs «TwistedSifter
So today I came across the website Twisted Sifter, an Australian image blog that has some great finds. This is one of them – police photos from the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s around Sydney and New South Wales. Warning – graphic images. 25 Vintage Police Record Photographs «TwistedSifter.
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Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge
The always outstanding Retronaut.co has some fantastic images that were taken during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, in the years leading up to 1937. The bridge got it’s name from the Golden Gate – the body of water that connects the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean – and is one of…
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Woolworths in NYC ca 1913
I just came across an amazing photo of a scene in New York City of the Woolworths building in 1913. It’s a nice large image, so you can get in there and see some detail. It’s interesting to see the line of traffic on the street to the right side of the photo. Night Light…
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Itinerant Photography
An interesting phenomenon that I’d never heard of before. Back in the 30’s, itinerant photographers would photograph many aspects of a town and it’s residents, then try to sell prints to said residents. Here is a fairly large gallery of photo’s from this time period, hosted by the University of Texas’ Harry Ransom Center. It’s…
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