A Drop in the Bucket

Will Walker is such a common name.  It’s a good thing the author of the writing on the back of this framed photo booth picture included a location. Still, much of Mr. Walker’s life is a mystery.  Born on February 13, 1880, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Will was living in Phoenix, Arizona before he landed in … More A Drop in the Bucket

Fatally Hurt

This photobooth image and the newspaper clipping below were found together on eBay.  According to the unsourced article, “Albert Meadows, 28, of 78 Lagrave-av., S.E., was fatally injured near Mancelona when the car on whose bumper he was standing was struck by another automobile.  Meadows died in Petoskey hospital.” Albert Dean Meadows was born November … More Fatally Hurt

Smile

William Arthur Ward said, “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”  Looking at the smiling face of the man who sat for these photobooth images definitely leaves me believing that he was a kind man.  I hope I’m right! I rescued these photobooth images from eBay.  Burton D. Day enlisted in the United … More Smile

Kissing Cousins

I found this strip of photos online at Pieces of Pastimes. I love these antique photobooth-style images and was excited about the challenge of identifying the sitters without a location.  And it definitely was a challenge!  I planned to say that I was 80% confident in my identification but then I came across what you might … More Kissing Cousins