Christmas Card from JULIUS, EILEEN RENEE, and LENNY

I have featured items from a scrapbook my friend Bert gave me at my other site, Tattered and Lost Ephemera. The scrapbook was created by Montez Lawton, an elementary schoolteacher, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This Christmas photo card is from the scrapbook. I have no idea what the little boy is holding, but I can see the very cool cowboy shirt (checkout Tattered and Lost: Buckaroos and Buckarettes).







You can see more items from Montez Lawton's scrapbook at Tattered and Lost Ephemera by typing her name in the search box at the top left column.


And please take a moment to look at my new book Tattered and Lost: Forgotten Dolls. I have published seven books of vernacular photography. Each with a sense of humor and pathos.

GLADYS KALLMAN at Balboa High School in 1948

Instead of where's Waldo, let's play "Where's Gladys?"

This photo includes Gladys Kallman. I know this because her brother George wrote a note and attached it to the photo. Otherwise I'd have never found her.

I believe this to be Gladys Kallman's senior photo. It measures 36" x 8". How on earth was anyone supposed to display this? As would be expected, it was folded.

1948. The war was over, but in just a few years we'd be sending troops to another war. Korea. What became of the class of 1948. Old enough to be your parents? Your grandparents? Think of the stories these people could tell. These kids would now be around 80 years old.

Now, go ahead and find Gladys. You may need to go back to last weeks Sepia Saturday post to remember what Gladys looked like.

And click on any image to see it larger.

Unlike handing your yearbook around for signatures, these kids handed around this photo. Here are just a few messages written to Gladys on the back of the photo.

And now...here's Gladys. Look at the third row up from the bottom, about 1/3 of the way through.

Another Sepia Saturday post.

Not so FROSTY THE SNOW MAN vernacular photograph

This is a happy little snow man. I have no idea where this snapshot was taken.

On the back is written:

Jan. 2, 1948

Snow man Kenny, Jackie & I built around new year.

I've been waiting for the perfect time to post the three shots in this series. I thought that since I might finally be getting back on my feet and did a post at my ephemera site about Frosty the Snow Man I'd post these here.

Over the next few days, fever and cough permitting, I will post the remaining two. I don't want to post them all at once. This little snow man had his own little life, short as it was, and I'm going to respect that.