[Leica] IMG: Digging Into the Past

[Jim Nichols]

Recent discussions of older photos led me to dig into some images I 
scanned quite a few years ago, from a collection of negatives and prints 
we inherited from my wife's grandmother.  This sepia image is from the 
middle to late 1930s, when my wife's Dad provided a meager income for 
his family by following the Midwest fairs and celebrations with his 
portable studio, selling "4 for a Dime" direct positive portraits to the 
fair visitors.  The studio could be folded and carried on the trailer 
seen in the background.  Herb is posing holding on to the awning frame 
that could be covered in bad weather.

http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20090417-Herb+with+Portable+Studio.JPG.html

Here is an actual-size copy of one of the seventy-year-old 
Direct-Positive photos, which received no Photoshop treatment at all.

http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Gene+01.jpg.html

-- 
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA