Vintage Snapshots

the wondrous world of vernacular photography

Category: 1960s Photos

Wired Woman

Vintage 1960s image of a woman posing in front of a telephone pole

Well-placed woman (circa 1960s negative)

Following up on a previous post about heads intersecting with background elements, here is another example of a woman captured without too much attention having been paid to where she was standing – unless, of course, they were actually trying to give her head that extra ‘something’.

Shooting at Water and Other Pursuits

Horses pull a wagon across a river in vintage photograph

Crossing a river, c. 1900

Here are three great snapshots in, on and around water.

Woman piloting a speedboat across the water in old photo from the 1920s

Speedboat, c. 1920s

Vintage photo of a 1960s young woman shooting a gun at ocean

Gun Woman, 1966

Priceless

vintage photo of two bulldogs looking out from the windows of their owner's 1960s station wagon.

Average cost of a new car in 1967: $2,750; average price of a gallon of gas: 33 cents; hitting the road for a day out with those guys: priceless.

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