At auction some years ago, I bought a box of slides of a family’s trip by car to the Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. I bought them at a time when I was fascinated by…
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Capturing a 1950s dream home in photos
Posted in Home
The woman was obviously proud of her home. She had taken photos of it as it was being built in 1954: The land laid bare to hold it, the wooden frame that would contain its…
On vacations in the past, I was usually the last one to pick up postcards to send back home to friends and family. I always saw it as a major interruption of a period when…
Family vacation slides
Posted in Photos
There was a time, it seems, that many families made slides from their family vacations. I come across tons of these slides – paper and glass – from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. With DVDs,…