I usually don't buy photos without names, but some are just too interesting to walk away from.  These are all kinds of photos, not just portraits.  Some are of people in their workplaces and I have a couple of people with trains.  Any interesting old photo that catches my eye and has people's faces visible can end up here.

•        Photo of a wheelwright shop found in an antique store in Texas.  Writing on the back reads:  "Last picture of papa in Davenport shop 5 months before his death Dec 13 1906"  The photo itself measures about 6 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches.  The matte that it is mounted on measures about 10 x 12 inches - almost too big to fit in my scanner.

•        Bowdry's Drug Store in Mason, Texas.  Going by the National Recovery Act poster on the wall and the Carole Lombard Coca Cola poster on the wall behind the soda counter ("Carole Lombard and Phillips Holmes - Enjoying the pause that refreshes..."), I am guessing this photo was taken sometime in the 1930s.  I can also make out ads for Dr. Pepper, Austin Maid ice cream, "Ucatone - the vitamin tonic", Honey and Horehound cough medicine, Kleer-A-Hed inhalant cough medicine, Old Gold cigarettes, and several brands of cigars (Chancellor, Travis Club, Royalist, Cold Cash and one or two others I can't quite read).  In the display case along the right side, behind the man with the glasses, the second shelf from the top is full of box cameras.

•  Two small boys in front of a passenger train in Bishop, Texas (this location is written on the back).  I cropped a lot of blank sky out of it to try to reduce the file size.  The men in white hats in the background look as if they are en route to a sporting event of some kind.  The pennants some of them are holding appear to read "Corpus Christi".  A correspondent says that "We believe the "white hats" photo to be taken at the same time (as the band photo below).  In the band photo, you can see some of the white hats just beyond the band on the right.  To the right of the building in the background is our railroad depot...you can see box cars on the tracks.  The passenger car with the white hats and children were probably just a block away from where the band was playing."

•  Marching band in Bishop, Texas.  In addition to the location, the date of April 29, 1913 is written on the back of this one.  This may have something to do with the same event as the train photo above.  UPDATE:  A correspondent writes that this photo and the one above of the train are of "the band promoting the new town of Bishop by founder, Mr. F. Z. Bishop.  We are celebrating our Centennial anniversary in 2010."

•        Passengers boarding a train.  The writing on the doors on the car in the foreground reads "No. 57" and "Third".  I cropped some of the sky and ground to reduce the size of the image a bit.

•  This is the man with the snowballs from the main page of this section.  Written on the large snowball in the photo is the date "14 Feb. 1895".

•    I found this small tintype at an antique store in Bartlett, Texas.  I'm not sure why I bought this - I guess I thought it was so sharp and clear that it would have been a shame not to buy it and put it here.

•  A postcard photo of two ladies with big fancy hats.  I found this in an antique store in Georgetown, Texas.

•      I found this cabinet card of a lady with a rather obvious hair extension in an antique store in Georgetown, Texas and thought her expression was priceless.  She is watching the fancy hairpiece intently and appears to be worried whether it will stay on for the photo.  The photographer is listed as Geo. A. Harris of 150 State Street, Chicago, Illinois.

•    I found this cabinet card in the same basket of photos as the hairpiece lady above.  I can't quite make out the photographer's name (Swem?  Sroem?), but he was located in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Is it just me or does this man look a bit like Robin Williams?

•  This is a postcard of an unidentified baby found at the postcard show mentioned above.  The expression on his face reminds me of Tim Allen.

•  In our "feeding frenzy" of picking up anyone with a name on the back at the postcard show, we grabbed up this little girl, somehow not noticing that the name stamped on the back was that of the photographer (E. R. Shumway, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania).  She's such a cute kid that I'll put her here anyway.  ;-)  (no, I can't make out what she's got in her hand).

•      This one has a first name and a middle name, but no last name.  The message on the back reads:  "Greetings from Bertha Hazel, age 3 years".  At least this little girl has a first name - there were an awful lot of cards at this show with children on the front and messages on the back along the lines of "Hi Grandma!  Guess who this is!"

This photograph is roughly 5 1/2 inches wide by 5 3/4 inches tall and the edges are not even.  I'm not sure what the smear on the back is - possibly it was glued into or onto something here.

The back of this photo says only "Triangle Film Studio" - no names.  The lettering above the door reads "Laboratories" - this may have been where the studio's film was processed.  The window in the left side of the door has lettering reading "Triangle Film", the studio's logo, and the word "Corporation".

I did a search on Google and came up with the following information.  According to Learn About Movie Posters, Samuel Goldwyn took over by 1918 and it became Goldwyn Studios.  Some of their stars included Norma Talmadge, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Olive Thomas (see also the "Memories of Olive" page), whose death was the subject of Hollywood's first big scandal.

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