Friday, November 19, 2010

Girl with a Hoop

This child is beautiful and exotic looking, but unfortunately I can't tell you anything more about her. The card is Italian, probably from the 1920s.


Here's the back of the card. Although this card certainly has a story, I don't know anything about it. Lucky for you, there is Sepia Saturday, where people (more often than not) know the stories behind their photos.

18 comments:

  1. Hi Christine, a gorgeous little girl and prettily dressed too. It would be nice to know her name!

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  2. What a great postcard. On first glance I would have thought she was Oriental, but I was wrong. Great blog!

    Natasha from: http://days-of-natasha.blogspot.com/

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  3. She is adorable. I think the hoop that she's holding is interesting, how it's flat from outside to inside instead of the usualy round or flat from side to side.

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  4. I love the play on circles : the circle of the hoop, the face and even the haircut. Great Sepia, great card.

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  5. The Hoola Hoop?
    A craze in the late fifties

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  6. When I set eyes on this, I thought, 'little girl lost'. A charming picture.

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  7. This is indeed a beautiful photo and a beautiful child. The hoop is interesting. I have a shot of one grandson taken recently at school in sepia and costume. Looks old but of course it is not. Great post.
    QMM

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  8. Her eyes!

    My mother had a haircut like that, at that sort of age.

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  9. These turn of the last century pictures usually carry a timeless transcendence. Beautiful study.

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  10. Very cool, I didn't know the hoola hoop has been popular for so long.

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  11. Kristy, just a hoop. That hula marketing angle came later. With a stick, you'd try to keep the hoop spinning, get it to change directions, or, mostly unsuccessfully, try to get the hoop to do trick moves. Jack/Y-town

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  12. A very lovely photo. Her expression is great.

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  13. Yes, the Hula hoop came later. These hoops were considered suitable for ladies in long dresses at the turn of the century. The Hula Hoop would have been considered scandalous.

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  14. There's a girl spinning a hoop in Giorgio de Chirico's 1914 painting, "Mystery and Melancholy of a Street". (Sometimes the "mystery" and "melancholy" are transposed.) Jack/Y-town

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  15. Hi Christine, thanks for all your well wishes on my trip, shall I send you a postcard? (lol)

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  16. What a sweet little photo - quite mysterious.

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