The Orphaned Images Project

The Orphaned Images Project: Ladies who lunch

cindydyer — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:01:55 +0000

The Orphaned Images Project: Bathing cuties

cindydyer — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:45:53 +0000

The Orphaned Images Project: Gone fishin’

cindydyer — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:23:23 +0000

Written around the edges of this photo:

7:30 A.M. In a few minutes he is off with a “fishing only” on a gasoline launch.

Archivist note: Hmmm….

The Orphaned Images Project: School children

cindydyer — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:17:29 +0000

Written on the back of this photo (I’m assuming the names go right to left in placement in the photo):

Loretta
Beverly
Clifford
Leighton
Harold
Junior

The Orphaned Images Project: Olive and me

cindydyer — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:16:24 +0000

Written on the back of this photo:

They were taken one Sunday morning & we put on something to make us look foolish. Please notice our hats. Olive and I and they do look funny, don’t they?

The Orphaned Images Project: The Altizer Family

cindydyer — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:30:22 +0000

The caption on the back of this photo reads, “The Altizer family, including Shep.” I can assume this branch of the Altizer family was from Virginia (since the photos were sold by a seller in Virginia). I did a quick search in Google for the family name and came up with lots of information, including a comprehensive genealogy website prepared by Jay Altizer. Perhaps Jay might know what generation of Altizers’ this family is! Click here to learn more about the Altizer family.

The Orphaned Images Project: Home

cindydyer — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:17:51 +0000

The caption on the back reads, “Mar. 20, 1938 Home (at their home)

The guy second from left looks a little scary, doesn’t he?

The Orphaned Images Project: Giant teacher, little desk

cindydyer — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:07:02 +0000

This photo was one of more than 600 b&w prints I purchased on eBay from a seller in Virginia. Many of the photos have captions (this one does not) and most are dated from the 30s to the 40s.

The Orphaned Images Project: Fairmount Band

cindydyer — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:10:12 +0000

This postcard was sent to Miss Ethel Noland, Fowlerton, Ind. on September 18, 1907 at 12:30 p.m., from Fairmount, Indiana. You can learn more here about Fairmount, Indiana in an article written by Fairmount historian Ann Warr. I learned that the late actor James Dean, Garfield comic creator Jim Davis, and CBS correspondent Phil Jones are all Fairmount natives.

The Orphaned Images Project: Gertrude Kitchen and Olive May

cindydyer — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:44:58 +0000

From the writing on the back of the top postcard, I’m surmising the lovely young woman is Gertrude Kitchen (or Kitchens). It is addressed to Miss Ethel Noland, a woman I wrote about in a previous posting on this blog. There was no address or cancelled stamp, so the postcard was never sent.

The second postcard is addressed to Mrs. Frank Wilson, Idaville, Ind., RR No. 19. It was sent June 27, 1913 at 8:00 a.m. from Lima, Ohio. (Postage was just a penny!) The card reads as follows:

Dear ??? and all: How is this for outdoors picture. Why don’t you write. How are you and (Maud?) and Leonard? — Gertrude

The baby is identified as Olive May, 14 mo. old.