Tag Archives: old photo scans

civil war pocket portrait

Civil War Pocket Photos

Here are two Civil War era photos that came in small embossed leather covered wooden cases. They look like the size that could easily fit in your pocket, and one has glass on the cover, to show the woman’s portrait thru it. The interior is velvet and elaborately floral embossed metal. I wonder who these people were?

1930s photograph

A couple in the 30s, and then again in the 40s or 50s

Mary doesn’t remember her aunt being very wealthy, and doesn’t know if this first picture from approximately the 1930s is her wedding photo to her second husband, or was just a special occasion photo. Either way, both of them look rather uncomfortable in the first picture. As you can see, this woman is heavy set [...]

1890s bride and groom

Turn of the century wedding, couples, and portraiture

I found these old turn of the century wedding photos especially fascinating, especially the girl in the black wedding dress that looks quite corseted. I wish I knew more about turn of the century fashions, because I am guessing that the black would be from the 1890s and the white dresses from more about 1910s? [...]

early 1900s boy

Turn of the century Children’s photos – from 1906

I found a date on these turn of the century children’s and family photos I scanned. On the back of the photo of the young woman in a white dress by St. Louis photographer J. Hass, was written “1906″ (which I also scanned). I’m guessing that the other photos in this group were also from the [...]

Turn of the century photos by St. Louis Photographers

I am not sure how these photos were ordered, or if there is any order. In this batch that I digitally preserved, there is a photo of a baby taken by When Studios, dated 1893; Parsons Studio, J. Haas,  Genelli, Theo E. Setzer, G. Schneidt, Boehl & Koenig – these last old photos have no [...]

1800s Photos from St. Louis, MO

This is my final set from the first batch of old photos. They appear to be taken mostly by St. Louis city photographers and photographers who were in the Carondelet neighborhood at the turn of the century. The two boys’ eyes haunt one photo, taken by Star Gallery… What silly looking turn of the century [...]

More scanned photos from the turn of the century St. Louis Photographers

These are more from the When Studio, with a different kind of back print, a totally unmarked old photo, my first from Crescent Studios, and J. Haas took some very proper looking headshots of young men. What grabs my eye from this batch is the interesting bridal photo with the bride in a black or [...]

History of Photographers in St. Louis

I’m uncovering the history of photographers in St. Louis… the details on the backs of the cabinet photos intrigue me, almost more than the subjects themselves. So far, I’ve scanned photos by: Henry Holburn (When Art Gallery on Franklin Ave) J. Haas at 7115 S. Broadway Hammer at 1534 S. Broadway Boehl & Koenig at [...]

Turn of the Century Wedding, couple, and baby photo scans

I am overloaded with vintage lately! I’ve taken on this project to scan photos for the Carondelet Historical Society…. as a natural progression of taking pictures of models in their donated old clothes. I can’t say no to taking on extra preserving, when they’re so kind as to let me practice my retro style photography [...]