This antique photo album came from the Kenneth and Quadine Searles family. Kenneth, pictured left, grew up in the Watkins Glenn area in New York. Some of these photos came from Schuyler County, New York.
Photographs from the Beebe, Perleberg, Quade, Zilles and Searles families.
Photographs from the Beebe, Perleberg, Quade, Zilles and Searles families
Photographs from the Beebe, Perleberg, Quade, Zilles and Searles families
Ken Searles who took these photos of his and his wife Quadine’s apartment on Milwaukee’s East Side in 1942, used a twin-lens reflex camera using 120 film for much of his early photography. In using the camera he had to hold it at waist level and look down through the top of the camera through the…
Photographs from Kenneth and Quadine Searles first apartment when they were first married. The third-floor walkup was located at 1320 N. Van Buren St. The twin-lens reflex camera photos were taken in 1942 when fold-down beds were concealed inside living room walls and ice boxes really containd blocks of ice that had to be replaced regularly. Furnishings…
Photographs from the Beebe, Perleberg, Quade, Zilles and Searles families
Photographs from the Beebe, Perleberg, Quade, Zilles and Searles families
This is a theater program for Easter Sunday, April 7, 1912, written in Czeck, produced by Milwaukee artist, photographer and entrepreneur Joseph Brown.
Many Studio photos taken in the late 1800s used glass plate negatives. I was “volunteered” to make the glass plates in a dark room, from a pharmacist’s view not that complicated. I floated a collodion solution over the glass plate. That got hung to dry. From there (still in the dark room) the glass plate…
9 Posters from the early 20th Century along with their descriptions
Early colored postcards from the Milwaukee area
Old-Fashioned Greeting postcards from the early 20th Century
Old-Time postcards from the early 20th Century Small Towns