Saturday, October 2, 2010

Hope

It's just a coincidence that yesterday's post was entitled 'Signs of Hope.'  I bought a number of old photo postcards some months ago, and I found myself particularly drawn to the ones that seemed to personify a thought or a feeling. This young lady is so lovely, and her face is so full of hope.

Here is the back of the card. As hard as I tried, I couldn't make out the photographer's name.

8 comments:

  1. what a beautiful old photo. She is so pretty. I love these, the clothes, hair do's and the poises. So sad nothing is written on the back to identify her or where she lived.

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  2. Lovely expression on her pretty face, too.

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  3. Hmm. looks like it is stamped on in relief..maybe try the thirties detective trick of putting a piece of thin paper over it and rubbing lightly with a pencil if so.

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  4. I know this sounds cruel and dismissive, but this young, pretty woman looks like a gal who'll only be happy with a guy of Scots-Irish background. No one named Gino or Franz need apply. Is my judgment off-base? Jack/Youngstown

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  5. Hmmm, well you may be right, Jack. I wish we could ask her.

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  6. She's lovely! It's a very tender portrait.

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  7. I see her maybe 15 years later in Dorothea Lange's well-known photo of a migrant mom during the Depression. Jack/Youngstown

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  8. There seems to be such a strength of character about her. You get the feeling that you could depend on her in a crisis.

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