' A ' For Amazing

[JPK Huson 1863]

Have a habit I've fallen into while looking for specific photos, which is to save other photos bumped into which are just, plain amazing to me in one way or another. Those have categories, too. This little ' collection' is just composed of faces which seem either amazingly clear or amazing poignant in some way. Certainly, an awful lot of them are females, perhaps had the gift of allowing the camera to LOOK at them. Tough to put my finger on . Tons of photos of pretty , youthful females out there- these just had something. It's the same ' thing' which kind of captivates you about he rest, the non-females here,

All faces of the era, or at least not ours ( have strayed, JamesB has kept me honest in making sure exceptions are noted. He can tell the year of a photo by the way a woman's sleeve is sewn into her dress. I'm lucky I can say " Well, this woman is wearing a very nice, striped dress. "

Anyway- some ' picks' for ' Amazing ' faces, gosh, you could swear you JUST ran into some of the people last week couldn't you?

LOVE, love, LOVE this little girl- she'd have come home with me after pleading with Mom- puleeze, just for dinner, promise to bring her back not TOO stuffed with cookies!

tough to find a photo of a Victorian with child- not sure how happy she seems.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

SO love this one, Mom's face and hair, Baby is SO, so amazed herself by these singular goings-on. Another one I'm taking home. Mom can come too.

Out of era, just loved her face and droopy angel wings

SO happy, love them both

Maybe mom was also a happy kind of person, think it's safe to say theirs was a pleasant household.

I'm not crazy about the ' art ' photos, just like her face- very ' Madonna', and not the singer.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

 

[ole]

Thanks for all the pictures, Annie. An entirely fine depiction of the time.

 

[donna]

Annie these are wonderful photos. Thanks so much for posting.

 

[John Hartwell]

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This fine lady, this Mona Lisa of the Ironing-board, so reminds me of my great-aunt Jane. You never knew what outrageous, hilarious observation was going to come out of her mouth. Lived to be 98, keeping us all in stitches to the end, and died in her sleep with a gentle smile on her lips. A truly great lover of life, and of us all.

Thank you for all of these pictures. Every one brought a smile, and some a tear.

 

[pamc153PA]

Love these, Annie!

 

[BelleBlackburn]

Great pictures! I was surprised to see a pregnant picture since I thought they always tried to hide it and hung around the house until the baby miraculously appeared.

 

[Northern Light]

Thanks so much for sharing these wonderful portraits with us!

 

[Mike Serpa]

Thanks for all the wonderful photos you post!

 

[samuel orris]

Whenever I see posed photos of the men in uniform I always wonder if they survived the war and were able to return to their families. Annie, I always enjoy looking at your photo posts. Thanks for sharing.

 

[FarawayFriend]

Great photos! Thanks so much for sharing!
This one looks very much like the one we have from my great-grandmother holding my grandfather Max on her lap. But that would have been in 1904.
Do you still know by chance where you got that one from?
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[CWNurse]

Loved all the photo's !

 

[Northern Light]

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I have been trying to decide if these two are the same woman.

 

[samuel orris]

I copied and pasted them onto a Power Point slide and there is a difference between the two. The lips are almost identical, but everything else is different.

 

[Northern Light]

I copied and pasted them onto a Power Point slide and there is a difference between the two. The lips are almost identical, but everything else is different.

Perhaps they are sisters?

 

[FarawayFriend]

Perhaps they are sisters?

That's what I thought also.
And they look as if you could meet them every minute just around the corner. On some photos people look so distant, as if these 100/150 years are a gap which could never be bridged and you could never hope to understand what these people thought and how they felt. But these two and especially the second one look as if you could say, hey, get off that costume and let's go and have a cup of coffee together.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Great photos! Thanks so much for sharing!
This one looks very much like the one we have from my great-grandmother holding my grandfather Max on her lap. But that would have been in 1904.
Do you still know by chance where you got that one from?
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Isn't the mother's face WONDEFUL? I'm with John Hartwell, some of these I got lost in, brought tears to my eyes- good tears- this photo is perfectly splendid. SUCH a happy baby, such a delighted, tickled mother. I'll try to track her back- it would have been either ebay or Pinterest, possibly LoC although theirs I generally have in a separate folder and post together.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Whenever I see posed photos of the men in uniform I always wonder if they survived the war and were able to return to their families. Annie, I always enjoy looking at your photo posts. Thanks for sharing.

I think the SAME thing, decided we all learned something from Shroedinger's Cat? The Big Bang Theory? We are fortunate not to know whether or not the men survived the war, so in our heads they DID.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

This fine lady, this Mona Lisa of the Ironing-board, so reminds me of my great-aunt Jane. You never knew what outrageous, hilarious observation was going to come out of her mouth. Lived to be 98, keeping us all in stitches to the end, and died in her sleep with a gentle smile on her lips. A truly great lover of life, and of us all.

Thank you for all of these pictures. Every one brought a smile, and some a tear.

Faces- you can see a LOT in them, for some reason all the photographers from 150 years ago had the ability to present their subjects WHOLE. Not just a leg or wing or ( God help me ) breast, the entire roast. Do not mean to demean the expensive professionals of 2014- have yet to see THAT from one. Dad's college roommate can do it- that's it in 56 years, photos I've encountered where the whole darn roast is on the platter.

98. New England? ' Jane ', of course she was, and I guess the one you all assumed would always always be around- it's a shock when they do die, even at 98. You know ( and promise this is relevant to your Aunt Jane ), remember reading that Lauren Bacall asked Katherine Hepburn to be Godmother to one of her children, who countered she was flattered but just didn't see herself having enough time to take the role seriously. Bacall told her that 5 minutes spent in her company was worth 6 weeks in anyone else's, by way of examples she wished for her children to have. Guess your entire family would have been awfully fortunate.