Photographic Arcadia

Here’s a special one! Souvenir arcade photo of Jimi Hendrix with a buddy in his army days, early 1960s

Washington DC 1939 

young woman against painted backdrop - 1940s

(Source: vintagephoto)

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.

soyouthinkyoucansee:

Girl in Snow - Detail of Cabinet Card

 

waheedpix:

Father Henry & Mrs. Washington’s Daughter

June 1942

[Donated by the Earl McCann Collection]

©WaheedPhotoArchive, 2011

3 young women - “seaside” novelty arcade photo - 1919

1940s novelty arcade photo - sailor & girl on a mule/donkey

1910 arcade photograph of family at Long Beach

Vintage arcade photo of family at North Beach - painted beach backdrop

Boy and girl with painted backdrop - perhaps of Bethlehem? Or perhaps not :) c.1950s

I love everything about this: the little boy’s sailor suit and stockings, his placid levitation, the moon’s coyly sinister Boy George countenance, the moonlit cloudscape, and the dizzying sense of perspective given by the skyscrapers and rooftops below.

Vintage novelty arcade photo - Western theme

Young girl poses with a stuffed bear cub against a painted backdrop of “Bar X Ranch” - early 20th century.

c.1940s woman and child - painted snow scene backdrop