Sepia Saturday - Hair

Today's Sepia Saturday Suggestion is about hair. Well, it could be about fake books or small statuary I suppose but that would be reaching a bit, probably. It's about the woman's prize hair.

So today for Sepia Saturday, lets look at some old photographs where hair is a feature.

No no. Not fur... Hair.

Your hair is always hanging in your eyes. And tuck in that shirtail!

I am sure the photographer didn't really intend to make it appear that the drapes in the painted backdrop are pinned to her hair.

Hair maintenance is a chore when camping in the wilds.

Foley was a hair model until, well, you know.

Regina spent one third of each day brushing her hair. She didn't believe in coloring her hair 'though she did rinse it in day-old left-over coffee now and then.

Von and Sal claimed to be Siamese twins but they were only joined at the hair with bobby pins.

Even though Leona kept flags in her hair, she still couldn't get into the Marine Corps.

Earliest known "bed head"

Ok. Try to guess who this is. Hint: She's married to a very, very, very, very, very, very, very famous musician. Extra points if you can name the turkey... I mean, the movie this is from.

From an unknown movie
(but we know the character, don't we?)

Pick your caption:
Oh when will my hair be long enough?

Does this braid make me look fat?

Oh, dear. Here he comes with another load of straw.

Printed on the reverse:
Seven Sisters
Lockport, New York
Sarah Length of Hair 3 ft
Victoria - 7 ft
Isabella - 6 ft
Grace - 5 ft
Naomi - 5 ft and 4 in. thick
Dora - 4 1/2 ft
Mary - 6 ft

H. Bailey, Manager
Baker Photo, Columbus Ohio

This old cabinet card didn't restore very well. The contrast recovered fairly well but most of the detail was still lost. The subject is so interesting however, I included it anyway. And although there are several photographs of the Sutherland Sisters to be found on the web, I have not found one exactly like this one. I did find a post that was apparently taken at the same session as this one but it is not identical.

But, the story is even more interesting. There are several accounts across the net but I found this one to be the most thorough. Untangling The Tale

I added this one because it really does have interesting hair and also, to show that a little enhancement really does occasionally find some hidden detail that would have been lost otherwise.

Now brush on back to the Sepia Saturday home page and see what other tonsorial temptations await.

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THE KIDS 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
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

"What are they doing?"

Feature - The Love Affair

When a photograph is abandoned or lost, some of the story within it goes too; some, not all. A photograph travels through time stuck in the pages of a book or at the bottom of a shoebox, in a wrinkled old wallet or carefully stuck to the black pages of an old album. When it arrives in our time, it is without provenance. While we must guess at facts like the actual date of the photograph or the model of camera or the location, there is often a rich story left in the image itself.

For a few weeks on Fridays, LOST GALLERY will examine a photograph or two, let them tell their own story.

Let's look at two photographs today. There is probably a decade or two difference in their age but these photographs are sisters in many ways.

We call it photogenic: The love affair with the camera. The camera loves her and gets loved back.

We can remember only a few people who really had this gift.

Here is a youngster caught in a snapshot, a candid moment. Even at her young age, she knows when a camera is around; she knows that the candid moment is going to last a long, long time. She knows how to look when the lens turns her way. She knows without knowing how or why.

Something about her tells us that wherever this girl went in life, she was a success and she was in charge.

Shadows of the future.

Someday a man's mind will turn to putty at the sight of her. Someday the world will be at her feet. Someday she may offer the solution to a flaw in society. The future is hers.

Today, she is interested only in the boy behind the camera.

In the dictionary next to “Sultry” there will be a photograph of her. Along with Lana Turner, of course.

So, here they are, seeming far too young to own the confidence they display, poised to take on tomorrow and today too.

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Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! 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
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All images are the property of Lost Gallery and the author. Permission must be granted for their use. All rights reserved.

THE KIDS 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
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

"What are they doing?"

Sepia Saturday - Bows and a Bed

Today's Sepia Saturday Suggestion has a group of girls gathered in what is apparently a dormitory bedroom, with posters and pennants on the wall. I looked through LOST GALLERY for things involving beds and came up with a few of sleeping people, a few half dressed people and a few of just an empty bedroom. There was one video I made some years back in an attempt to describe the stages and reasons for a bit of enhancement to old photographs. I'll include that at the end of the page, just for fun.

But what really caught my eye in the Sepia Saturday Suggestion today was that each of the girls in the photograph has a bow in her hair. A BIG bow.

It was a very popular fashion for a long period. LOST GALLERY has a collection of photographs featuring BIG BOWS.

So today, for Sepia Saturday, let's look at a few of those portraits with a big bow.

It's the second from the right.

Sometimes it's one, sometimes it's two.

Yes, yes I know. You've seen this one before. It's kind of unforgettable.

This is a BOW isn't it?

I wish sincerely that the snapshot on the right and the RPPC on the left could be the of same girl. It would be only the second time I have found photographs of the same people in different places.

It’s not the same girl, however. The two photographs were found only about 160 miles apart. The RPPC portrait is from Nacogdoches, Texas. The 2.25 X 3.25 snapshot was found in West Monroe, Louisiana.

According to Playle’s invaluable examples, the RPPC could be little later than 1918 and probably earlier. The snapshot at best guess is from around 1925-1930.

The pose and attitude and the bow in the hair seem the same though. It was enough to make me get them together for comparison.

Now, are they related? Meh. Perhaps.

Three girls, three bows

Five girls, one bow

Well, it's a bow!

Stay Tuned. This was a very popular fashion.

There's probably more.

Now, as promised, here is a video made for the purpose of demonstrating the details revealed by a little enhancement of an old snapshot.

No bows, but there certainly is a bed.

Okay loop on back to the Sepia Saturday home page to find more beds and bows and pictures and pennants and such.

Go back to THE MAIN INDEX PAGE

There are now more than 4,000 photographs in the Lost Gallery.
Or try out the NEW BACK PAGE INDEX

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

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

Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! 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 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
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

"What are they doing?"