Freight-yard photography, 1912
From a photograph in my collection: The precise location of the scene in this photograph is unknown, but the penciled note on the reverse says "Bangor, 1912". Here a young lady is photographing a well-dressed couple (her parents?), in the yard of a wood shingle mill somewhere in Maine. The camera looks nearly new. Could it be a recent gift? There's no information in the photo giving any hint to where it was taken. The freight car to the left of the building has "Pennsylvania" on the side. The car between the couple being photographed is numbered A.C.L. 27525, an indication that it's an "Atlantic Coast Line" railroad car. This information does nothing to help pin down the location since rail cars traveled all over the country.
The original image was printed on Kodak "Velox" postcard paper, a product that was sold by Kodak from around 1903 to about 1930. The paper was a heavy-weight "post card" thickness paper imprinted on the back with a place for a stamp, plus a vertical line dividing the back into a message and address section, for sending through the mail. Kodak generated a great deal of business by offering this convenient way for folks to "share" their photos. This photo postcard was never stamped or mailed. The print was in a small lot given to me decades ago by a friend in China, Maine. I wish I had gone through them at the time asking for information about each photo.
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Freight-yard photography, 1912
From a photograph in my collection: The precise location of the scene in this photograph is unknown, but the penciled note on the reverse says "Bangor, 1912". Here a young lady is photographing a well-dressed couple (her parents?), in the yard of a wood shingle mill somewhere in Maine. The camera looks nearly new. Could it be a recent gift? There's no information in the photo giving any hint to where it was taken. The freight car to the left of the building has "Pennsylvania" on the side. The car between the couple being photographed is numbered A.C.L. 27525, an indication that it's an "Atlantic Coast Line" railroad car. This information does nothing to help pin down the location since rail cars traveled all over the country.
The original image was printed on Kodak "Velox" postcard paper, a product that was sold by Kodak from around 1903 to about 1930. The paper was a heavy-weight "post card" thickness paper imprinted on the back with a place for a stamp, plus a vertical line dividing the back into a message and address section, for sending through the mail. Kodak generated a great deal of business by offering this convenient way for folks to "share" their photos. This photo postcard was never stamped or mailed. The print was in a small lot given to me decades ago by a friend in China, Maine. I wish I had gone through them at the time asking for information about each photo.
Freight-yard-G-LCC20x05