Just Great
Pretty Good: Restaurant + Mustang, 1966 (click to enlarge)
Vintage Snapshots
the wondrous world of vernacular photography
Category: Cars
September 20, 2016
Looking Out
Inside the Piston Parts Co., c 1920s (click to enlarge)
July 22, 2016
Hoop + Hair
c 1940s (click to enlarge)
October 20, 2014
Baseball Glove
America, 1960s (click to enlarge)
There isn’t much to really say here, except that this is why snapshots are great.
September 17, 2014
On the Run
In motion, c 1920s (click to enlarge)
August 20, 2013
The Disappearing Man
I wonder what they thought when they first saw this one (c 1940s)
July 1, 2013
Rumble
Rumble seat + light leak, c 1930s (click to enlarge)
April 6, 2013
A Snapshot
Posing for a snapshot, c 1960s (click to enlarge)
September 11, 2012
Dueling Cameras
Brownie battle (c. 1920s)
The camera in at least the woman’s hand in this great shot looks to me to be a 1920s Kodak Brownie No. 3, Model B. According to what I have found online, the camera was produced from 1908 – 1934, but the trigger guard visible below her thumb was added to the Model B from 1920 – and the rest appears to match that particular camera, as shown below.
The way it used to work
Kodak’s Brownie No. 3, Model B
August 6, 2012
City Views: Corpus Christi, Texas
Peoples and Schatzel Streets, Corpus Christi, 1930 (click to enlarge)
This shot is dated February 11, 1930, notes the streets on the back and also mentions “Bay in background” – and you can indeed see it if you enlarge the photo enough. A quick check online reveals that unfortunately nothing in this photo seems to exist today. The block in the middle is open space, and the surrounding streets are occupied by the typical contemporary mishmash of larger buildings. Another step “forward” in American urban planning.
