Saturday, March 29, 2014

Sepia Saturday - The Floods


This Sepia Saturday Suggestion seems to be about floods and flood damage


So today for Sepia Saturday, lets look through the back pages at LOST GALLERY and see if what we can find on the subject of floods.

But first, here's a picture of my brother and a playmate from our neighborhood. They are on a makeshift raft floating a few feet from our front porch during the 1951 flood in Salina, Kansas.

1950 flood

Quite coincidentally, these next four photographs turned up last year in a found batch. They are all labeled on the reverse as "Ottawa, Kansas Flood 1951" which would have been the same flood my brother was navigating in the above snapshot. Ottawa is only about 130 miles from Salina, Kansas.


Ottawa Kansas Flood 1951
Ottawa Kansas Flood 1951

These seem to be of the flood damage more than the flood itself.


Ottawa Kansas Flood 1951
Ottawa Kansas Flood 1951

Speaking of Flood Damage, there is more of that in LOST GALLERY than photographs of floods. Here are a few very precious photographs damaged by water.


Girl on Chair
Young girl holding two babies
Family Portrait water damage

But back to photographs of floods.


Flood
Flood Picture

Flood

How high's the water mama?
Four feet high and risin'.

Home on the water,  From a negative scan.

Flood

Areal view
Flood

But no flood collection could be complete without a mention of the great flood. (No. Not THAT great flood.)

No, I mean the great flood in "When Worlds Collide" the science fiction disaster movie that dazzled our senses back in, you guessed it, 1951. If you want to see the movie, it's only 82 minutes long and a real hoot. See it here at
Daily Motion .

I found the movie still photograph in a tray of like material at a junk store in a small town in Texas. It differs from other found photographs in that everything about it is known. It was just abandoned.

When Worlds Collide

Now paddle on back to the
Sepia Saturday home page. You'll be up to your neck in flood photographs and stories.


The most popular photographs most popular, Family Group, An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

Area 51 and a Half Area 51 and a Half You are probably not authorized to see these.

Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! completely unaware of the photographer This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
One Man's Treasure
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
THE DAILY POSTCARD.
POSTCARDY

All images are the property of Lost Gallery and the author. Permission must be granted for their use. All rights reserved.

THE KIDS Lesson one. It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned. Here are a few. You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.

Dee and the Business School Dee and the Business School
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
Neiffel and Helvetica Typehigh

"What are they doing?"

Friday, March 28, 2014

That Old Gang - Page Four


If it's more than three people, it's a group.

Here are photographs of groups of people taken by amateur photographers, not in a studio. We'll save the professional group portraits for another page.

Baby Buggy

Picnic at River
Street Scene at Number 27

41
The Family Home
The Jodhpur Gang

Four Girls
Eight on the steps

Two on a horse
Group on the steps.

We didn't know we were poor.
School Party

Curlie Locks
Four men

Man in Uniform
Five Girls

Four Man Picnic
They all tried to hide Daubert

The dog didn't care.
Group on front porch

Family on front porch
Tintype enhanced
Family on a bumper

Ramona's Marriage Place
group outside
Where's the knickers police

Five people chain
Six children and a dog.
This snapshot was the only proof.

Pose on a bridge
Ten

Five men
Six Guys

Jerome was beginning to realize ...
Six on a rock.
Where's the knickers police

Six on a rock.
Five women

Four at a table
Accordion and Tenor Sax

Out standing on a rock
Out sitting on a rock

The ole' swimmin' hole
They had been lost almost week now.
Gang at the Lake

Five men
Pals
People Stack

Mom

Two couples
Eight guys

13 people
Eight on the dock

Six Women
Group out on the lawn

Four with bows
Six at a picnic.

The most popular photographs most popular, Family Group, An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

Area 51 and a Half Area 51 and a Half You are probably not authorized to see these.

Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! completely unaware of the photographer This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
One Man's Treasure
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
THE DAILY POSTCARD.
POSTCARDY

All images are the property of Lost Gallery and the author. Permission must be granted for their use. All rights reserved.

THE KIDS Lesson one. It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned. Here are a few. You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.

Dee and the Business School Dee and the Business School
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
Neiffel and Helvetica Typehigh

"What are they doing?"

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