Come Visit A New Blog

Exciting news! My 10 year old daughter has started a new blog called Learning From Our Past.  It is a child's view of history.  She has loved history since she was a little girl and now wants to share what she has learned with other children.  At the flea market she collects old photos and ephemera of our U.S. Presidents and other famous people.   There are bound to be some great vintage images for all you collectors like the one of Abraham Lincoln below.  Please stop by her blog alone or with a child and make a young girl happy. 

Saturday Image Bonus 179

These five victorian tobacco trade cards are from the late 1800's.  The practice of adding trading cards to tobacco and chewing gum products continued well into the 20th century.

As always feel free to use any of the images on my website in your artwork but please do not post or sell the original image on the web in a group or collection or alone. If you use one in a project and post it to your site please link it back to here or leave a comment in the comments section of the image on this site so we can all enjoy. I love to see what you create. Please be sure to leave a comment if you stop by. It inspires me to post more.

More Thread Tradecards

Here are a bunch of my favorite thread trading cards.  I once travelled to Williamantic, CT to see the thread factory which is long since gone.
As always feel free to use any of the images on my website in your artwork but please do not post or sell the original image on the web in a group or collection or alone. If you use one in a project and post it to your site please link it back to here or leave a comment in the comments section of the image on this site so we can all enjoy. I love to see what you create. Please be sure to leave a comment if you stop by. It inspires me to post more.

Saturday Image Bonus 178

This Saturday I have a few more trade cards from my collection.  When I have time to do more scanning(hopefully by next weekend) I will continue with Sylvia's family photos.  There are a bunch from a vacation in Chile and lots more extended family. 
As always feel free to use any of the images on my website in your artwork but please do not post or sell the original image on the web in a group or collection or alone. If you use one in a project and post it to your site please link it back to here or leave a comment in the comments section of the image on this site so we can all enjoy. I love to see what you create. Please be sure to leave a comment if you stop by. It inspires me to post more.

Trade Card Advertisements

I thought I would take a break from the vintage photos today.  These are tradecards from the late 1800's.  They were given out free to customers to advertise products.

Saturday Image Bonus 177 - Meet Aunt Annie

Anna Turin Cohen Horowitz

Annie and her siblings



Annie's brothers ( marked J Turin)



Annie and her first husband ? Cohen

J Turin and Mother? Wife?

Today we have Aunt Annie's family.  She must be Bess's sister in law.  These are not marked as well and I am trying to guess from previous photos who is who.  The man with Annie in the fourth photo I assume is her husband and a Cohen.  He looks a lot like the women in some of the previous Cohen photos and is marked New Haven CT like all of the Cohen photos.    All the Turin photos are maked NYC 70-72 E 99th St was their address.

I still have many more photos but the flea market vendor I got these photos from has promised to bring me even more photos from the lot for no additional charge.  There are travel photos to South America and other later family shots.  Perhaps we will be able to piece together the identities of the mystery people from those photos.

Saturday Image Bonus 176

Bess, Sam and Abe Cohen

Bess, Ida,Louis and Abe Cohen

Sam and Abe Cohen

Sam Cohen

Meet Bess's Family

Bess Cohen Epstein

Today we are going to get to know the Cohen's, Bess Epstein's family.  There are several photos of her parents Ida and Louis.  The one of her father wearing a skullcap is very unusual.  This is the first photo I have with someone wearing one. 

Louis Cohen

Ida Cohen





Louis and Ida Cohen

Saturday Image Bonus 175 - Sylvia grows up

Sylvia and Sherwin

Sylvia and her mom

Unknown Epstein - This looks like Syvia but the dates don't work.  So either it is an old picture sent to Aunt Annie at a later date or another Epstein.

Sylvia all grown up

I hope you have enjoyed these photos.  Next I will be posting the Cohen family.  Sylvia's mother Bess is Bess Cohen Epstein.  So we will see Sylvia's grandparents and relatives on her mother's side.

Some More Photos of the Epstein's

Sam and Bess Epstein

Sylvia Epstein

Sylvia Epstein

Sylvia Epstein

I have posted a few more of the vintage photos from 1910 -1914 I got at the flea market last week.  They really are a treasure.  I love this series showing Sylvia's parents who were very handsome and then Sylvia as she gets older.  It makes me sad to think a family has lost this history so I have adopted them.  Most of these photos and photo postcards were sent to an aunt Annie.  Perhaps it went to a family member of Annie's when she died and by this generation no one knew who the Epstein's were.

Sylvia and Sherwin

  Here are four adorable postcards of two children from Connecticut named Sylvia and Sherwin Epstein in 1922.   I bought fifty of these old photos from a vendor at the flea market today.  They are a wonderful set.  The photos are of several families that are related over a fifty year period from 1880 - 1930's.  Many are marked with the names and others you can tell who they are by seeing previous photos.   I'll be posting many of these over the next few weeks.  I hope you enjoy them as much as my daughter and I.  It is so fun to see this family evolve from the old country to an American family. 

Saturday Image Bonus 173

This week we have images from a 1921 edition of Gritli's Children by Johanna Spyri.  Johanna Spyri also wrote Heidi.  I found this book last week at the flea market along with 6 more wonderful books  Each one of those books are one hundred years old or more.  Make sure to check my other blog Digital Two for Tuesday for some line drawings from this book.