Photographic Arcadia

tu-tu much!

two girls on a wonderfully bizarre paper moon

L. Kauffmann - “The Little Explorers” Albumen cabinet card 1885

Novelty Photograph -Studio portrait of five children off exploring in a boat set adrift on a river which is filled in by ink wash.

foto-jennic:

The Gay 90’s 
San Franciso 

Source

Collection of arcade photos with painted backdrops 1910s-1920s

This is a collection of four whimsical, comic arcade photos from the early twentieth century, with painted backdrops, all featuring the same two young men named Carl and Dick. Taken in San Francisco, California. Difficult to date precisely, probably 1920s.

This set is quite novel because it features the same two young men, at the same age, photographed using four different paintend backdrops in San Francisco. There are two pairs, distinguished by the design elements of the frames, and each pair is clearly from the same photographer. Both frames have art deco design elements. For the collector of arcade photographs and painted backdrops.

    - Many thanks to Epheremanai for this fascinating submission!

souvenir photo of two friends at Coney Island - c.1930s/40s

Unusual part cut-out Western arcade photo - c.1940s

Edwardian paper moon photograph

(Source: ossiebigtree)

French 1920s novelty arade photograph of 3 people in a painted speedboat

Novelty arcade photo - Barbary Coast San Francisco

Novelty arcade photo - Gay 90’s Studio San Francisco

Military Zep-Train by ookami_dou on Flickr.

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1885, [Souvenir photo from Cairo], Strommeyer & Heymann

via JosefNovak33’s Photostream

THREE WORLD WAR I GERMAN SOLDIERS IN A RARE ARCADE MONO AEROPLANE SCENE - DARMSTADT

Chicago World’s Fair 1933