[Leica] IMG: Digging Into the Past

[Douglas Barry]

A tough life, but fascinating, Jim.
Douglas

On 12/01/2019 23:18, Jim Nichols 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
>