[Leica] IMG: Digging Into the Past

[Jim Nichols]

Thanks, Jayanand.  Things were tough in the USA in the 1930s.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 1/12/2019 8:57 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> The first one is a real slice of history!
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 4:48 AM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
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