After posting these two portraits on Flickr a short time ago, it seems a good idea to round up all of the "Big Bow" photographs in LOST GALLERY and collect them all onto one page. It turns out there are quite a few.
This one is a bit different. Two boys with huge bow ties.
It's the second from the right.
Sometimes it's one, sometimes it's two.
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
I got bows, You got bows, everybody gotta have bows... Well, except the guys, of course.
Well, it's a bow!
Stay Tuned.
There are more on the way.
There are now more than 4,000 photographs in the Lost Gallery.
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It is always a mystery to us 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.
"What are they doing?"
I'm stunned with the size of some of those. They are huge! Great collection!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much. I didn't realize I had so many of them. Noticing the similarity in the first two, set me looking.
ReplyDeleteThe one with the car looks like a studio promotional shot for the Our Gang series. It's so perfectly fun.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think it is probably a professional shot, considering the age of the auto and some of the clothes. Eastman had produced his little black box for consumer use but they were still in fairly limited use in 1900. Itinerant photographers still made a living going house to house doing portraits in front of the home. They would work by appointment too as probably this one was. Everyone is dressed in their best.
ReplyDeleteYou have such an amazing collection. I always enjoy perusing the aisles in search of what is around the next corner.
ReplyDeleteI was tapped yesterday with one of the online awards which has given me the opportunity to let others know about your wonderful site. You do not need to continue the awards navigation around the world.
Thanks very much for the compliment and the link.
ReplyDeleteRescuing old photographs is really fun and rewarding. I became interested in the Common Poses and Snapshot Ideas a few years ago; hence my “Categories.” From Bows to Running boards to Bombing there are many subjects I have found in common.
But most rewarding of all is the occasional connection with someone who was there or knows someone who was there or best of all, is related to someone in the photograph. It has happened to my collection several times. It makes rescuing these old bits of time very worth while.