Photographic Arcadia

tu-tu much!

Vintage souvenir arcade photo - young lady as a fisherman

written on the back is: Friday, July 1, 1943; Riverview; Chicago, Ill

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!

mudwerks:

(via Portraits sur la lune | La boite verte)

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

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

c.1940s San Francisco arcade photo card of two ladies - possibly sisters - on a tandem bicycle

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

1910 arcade photograph of family at Long Beach

WWI  soldier sits at a wishing well - vintage arcade photograph

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

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.

Couple on unusual cut-out “porthole” paper moon  c. 1907-1918