Vintage Snapshots

the wondrous world of vernacular photography

Category: Guns

Portraits: Gun Dance

1963 vintage snapshot photograph of black boy dancing to record player while wearing toy gun

Space to move, 1963 (click to enlarge)

Thanks to Leonard Lightfoot for uncovering another great image. This has to be one of my all-time favorites. As I have mentioned before a time or two on here, there truly is just nothing like a great snapshot.

Some Favorite Portraits

A random grouping of a few recently acquired shots that I think will remain favorites.

Vintage 1920s snapshot of woman standing with her arms outstretched

Beatific, c 1920s

Vintage photo of man on porch with post in way of his face

Porch, c 1920s

Odd vintage snapshot of two brothers flanking a small guy with a pistol pointed at him. Circa 1920s

Flanked, c 1920s (click to enlarge)

 

Suspicious

Vintage snapshot of woman with an amazing hat along with a pistol and extra bullets (circa 1900/1905)

Extra bullets (c 1900)

She doesn’t seem hugely keen on having her photo taken.

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

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