(Vernacular Photos)


The images here are all anonymous and gleaned from junk shops, flea markets, ephemera sales, and internet vendors. Among the historic subgenres here represented are cartes de visites, cabinet cards, cyanotypes, real-photo postcards, mug shots, and deaccessioned newspaper and wire service photographs. The earliest date from the 1880s; the most recent from the 1970s.

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