1, 19 February, 2006
Memorial Card, Elizabeth Price, Spencerville, Ohio
Memorial Card, Elizabeth Price, Spencerville, Ohio
Originally uploaded by mrwaterslide.
Beautiful images from mrwaterslide’s vernacular collections on Flickr. Hours can be well lost looking there.
Look At Me
Today there are 572 images at Look At Me that were “either lost, forgotten, or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them.” Tomorrow there will be more.
Unknown Mitava Couple
Unknown Mitava Couple
Originally uploaded by Mirabilia.
From a family collection. No identifing information. Text is cyrillic. Origin of image is
Mitava, Mitau, Jelgava – Latvia.
1, 9 February, 2006
Tintype – Seated Boy with Hat
Unknown Boy, Possibly Byron Corson, Tintype
Originally uploaded by Mirabilia.
Unidentified boy from a family collection
Tintype – Standing Girl
Tintype – Standing Girl
Originally uploaded by Mirabilia.
Affectionately, Earl
Almost Famous – Earl
Originally uploaded by Mirabilia.
Inscribed;
To Doreen,
whom I admire and respect
Affectionately,
Earl
also marked IHRIG Spokane 2
on the reverse:
NOTICE
This Photograph is released for publication in magazines and newspapers if credit is given Ihrig. PHOTOGRAPHY BY IHRIG
1, 7 February, 2006
My Cousin in Leningrad
My Cousin in Leningrad
Originally uploaded by Mirabilia.
‘Mela’ Meletza
written on the reverse
“My cousin in Leningrad” and “Mela”
in another hand, presumably Mela’s, in cyrillic
“I danced the role of The Little Kitten in the operetta – (illegible) of the South”.
1, 5 February, 2006
The Smiths, detail Left
The Smiths, detail Left
Originally uploaded by Mirabilia.
Everyone, but she is not fully in the frame.
The Smiths, detail Right
The Smiths, detail Right
Originally uploaded by Mirabilia.
Just the girls here.
The Smiths
The Smiths
Originally uploaded by Mirabilia.
The Smith’s, a page removed from a photo album, originally from somewhere in Eastern Washington. The oldest girl’s face is mesmerizing, and I can’t stop wondering what might have happend to her. There is something almost epic, and somehow very formal, about these pictures. It’s one of my most favorite images.
Shura in Winter
1916, Youth in Uniform, Russia
Originally uploaded by Mirabilia.
“Shura” Alexander Frolov in uniform. Perhaps he died in a fall from a Trans Siberian rail car during the war.
Grant Avenue
Linen Postcard, Street Scene, Chinatown, San Francisco, Calif.
Originally uploaded by Mirabilia.
Linen Postcard, Street Scene, Chinatown, San Francisco, Calif.
Orient and Occident
Postcard from
Pictorial Wonderland
Art Tone Series
Stanley A. Piltz Company, San Francisco, Calif.
on the reverse:
Chinatown Street Scene
Where the East meets the West – in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown, largest Chinese section in the world, outside of China. Here The Orient and the Occident blend in a galaxy of curved roofs, pagoada-like temples, and a strange mingling of American styles and Chinese stoicism.
...all you beautiful ghosts 