Vintage Photos

[Crewleader]

Candles mark a procession leaving Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre in Quebec, 1971.



The Britannic, a massive British steamer and sister ship to the Titanic, launches from Belfast Harbor in 1914. The Britannic sunk two years later after encountering a German mine field in the Meditteranean sea.



The Edgar Allen Poe Shrine in Richmond, Virginia, 1929.



A view of ships and canoes docked in the harbor for summer camp fun at the Lanakila Camp for Boys in Vermont, 1927.



Two women give food to a red and green macaw in a city garden in Brazil, 1944.



A sled dog, tied to a whale rib, howls under the midnight sun in Alaska, 1969.



Men stand beside a volcano’s crater eighteen months after an eruption on Tristan da Cunha Island, 1964.



New Mexico, 1941.



The Statue of Liberty hails dawn over New York Harbor in 1978.



A solitary fisherman’s home keeps watch on quiet Placentia Bay in Newfoundland, Canada, 1974.

[TeeYiYi]

1. My favorite...

TYY

[Sparky 1]

2. Thanks for sharing. The two women feeding the parrot in 1944 may be . . .

. . . dead by now of old age. The parrot is probably still alive.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. K&R

Right place, right time is apparently the secret to great photography.

Thanx for sharing.

[mnhtnbb]

4. Amazing moments in time.

[UglyGreed]

5. Thank you I love

taking a peek into the past.

[Crewleader]

6. I'll post more of these historic photos, I love them too!

A test orbiter flies before the actual shuttle Columbia, March 1981.

[Curmudgeoness]

7. Vintage?

Maybe for some people, but I think of vintage as "before my time"...and most of these are "current" to me. Aggghhhhhh!

The Poe Shrine looks lovely.....I wonder if it is still so nice. And I really like the New Mexico photo.

[Crewleader]

8. How about this one

Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel hold hands at the water’s edge in Nova Scotia in 1898.

[Curmudgeoness]

9. That is really lovely. And vintage.

Thanks for that.

[Sherman A1]

10. Great!

I was lucky that several years ago my Mom gave me the box of photos from her closet. These included many that were taken by or included her Mom (my Grandmother) who was something of a camera bug before she passed away in 1927 from TB when my Mom was very young. I was also lucky in that most had notes on the back indicating who was in the picture and where they were taken.

It was a treasure trove of family history and of the times.

[Crewleader]

11. You were very lucky to have such a great Mom and all the photos she gave you!

A treasure indeed, thanks for posting Sherman A1.