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July 14, 2009 |
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Wedding Photo
FOUND by Tim Hodge
in Franklin, TN
I had gone to the recycling center to drop off my cans, glass, etc. and found this memento on the asphalt between the big dumpsters for`plastic and paper. I want to think this is a mistake. Why would someone throw away a wedding photo? I am guessing it is from the 1930s, possibly the 40s. It has been trimmed to 1.5 x 3" and has "43" stamped on the back (a photographer's proof number most likely).
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
This is absolutely beautiful.
I went to a wedding a couple of days ago, and spent a lot of time watching the photographer taking pictures of the couple outdoors in the park.
wow,
i always thought that long veils looked ludicrous but on her it's stunning.she looks like my nana
I've heard of whirlwind romances, and here is photographic proof! They probably didn't use this one because of the blowing veil (brides in those days were supposed to be perfectly posed) but I bet someone kept and cherished this proof...so sad they lost it. Nice to see a wedding photo from that time that isn't in a studio.
The three bouquets are interesting...from the bridesmaids, maybe?
aching out to capture a moment? Everyone knows it's Win
ybody she sees? Who's reaching out to capture a moment? Everyone knows it's Win
iling at everybody she sees? Who's reaching out to capture a moment? Everyone knows it's Win
ipping down the streets of the city, smiling at everybody she sees? Who's reaching out to capture a moment? Everyone knows it's Win
ouldn't help himself; he had a song stuck in his hea
I'm guessing it wasn't lost. Given the time period, All involved in the wedding are probably long past. In fact, maybe this was thrown out while grandma's estate was being settled. And this probably wasn't even Grandma, but it was her friend Ester, so the gradkids didn't even know who this was.
Well, maybe the marriage didn't work out?
You wouldn't keep the pictures then-away to the recycling depot!
@ Farmer ... took me a moment to get it today, but thanks for the tune! Loved that group when I was younger.
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Mildred, pictured here at her third wedding, insisted on carrying bouquets of roses memoralizing her first two husbands who had died under let's just call them questionable circumstances. While still adorned in the traditional white gown with flowing veil, she eschewed the long train this time.
Maybe this time that "black widow spider" curse would skip town.
Mildred insisted on wearing white much to the chagrin of half the town who knows the truth.
is she falling over or leaning that far into the wind. shi is like 15-20 degrees past vertical. i think she is passing out at the time the photo was taken. eyes closed, hips bending sideways, listing. i like my story and am sticking to it.
'Tis a lovely picture. I'd like to think that a photography studio, in preparation for moving to a new location, was clearing out years of photos that had been gathering dust in the back room.
Reminds me of one of my wedding photos where the wind caught my (much shorter) veil and blew it to the side and the photog caught the moment.
It's sad this was lost/tossed, but I'm so glad it got found by someone who would love it. It's funny how, as baby basil said, this shot probably was seen as a mistake at the time, but now it's such a glimpse into another life. The trees in the back ground appear to have few if any leaves, so it was probably a chilly day. Does anyone know if they would have trucked in fresh flowers back then, or are these likely fabric?
sweetie pie, i think fake flowers are more of a modern thing, and these are likely real. I have nothing to base that opinion on, just my own thoughts.
And, as it most unfortunately turned out, Mildred's third husband was a little on the thin side ('slightly consumptive' as they said back in the day). When the wind picked up during the picture-taking session, Wendell was lifted up and blown into the next county.
Knocked senseless when he hit his head on a still up in the hills, poor Wendell wandered for months in a mental fog. By the time he returned to town, Mildred had already had him declared dead, collected her share of his estate, and moved on to courting her next husband.
this may be one of my favourite finds thus far.
lucky!
@ a lad: she's not leaning. The effect of the wind blowing her veil and dress all to one side plus the fact that she has her head lowered off to one side gives the illusion that she's leaning when she's not.
Farmer gave me an earworm.
This is a beautiful photograph.
Ghost bride.
The size of the photo is due to the fact that prior to the invention of standardized photo processing, most prints done were contact prints. A contact print is one where they lay the film out on a single sheet of paper, expose it then trim them to size after developing. This is why old photos range in sizes from 2x3 inches up to 3.5x4.5, etc. Only after the advent of standardized processing did they move toward standard photo print sizes: 3.5x5, 8x10, etc. Just another piece of trivia I suppose.
Runaway Bride
The roses are most likely fresh, they would be for a wedding in those times. Plastic came in post-ww2, before that you only had paper or wax; and sometimes *shudder* felt. Felt flowers were used on hats. But none of those would have looked as natural as this.
Talk about "pick a bouquet of roses!"
I see a bird flying across her chest and a demon coming over her left shoulder. She sort of looks like she's picking a wedgie with her right. She also looks like she's falling over to me, and I bet she was freezing too.
Her hips seem so slight that I think she's going to have trouble bearing children.
I like the way her bouquet is more like the flowers given to winners of beauty pagents... meant to be carried in the arms like a baby, nextled in the antecubital fossa. They all look like that. None of the two-handed, flung over the shoulder, elbows to eyes of other wedding guests, bouquet toss?
It's an odd pose, but I kinda like it. Sorry it was trashed.
Jeanette had exactly three unmarried female friends, and she hated being unfair, so she insisted on having three bouquets at her wedding. This way, each friend would win in the bouquet toss. Unfortunately, it was a rather windy day, and all three bouquets were blown into the river. Oddly enough, none of her three friends ever married.
We recently bought a house from an auction. The elderly resident had died who no family. The entire house was filled with a lifetime of momentos including her wedding album and dress.
It broke my heart to see everything this woman had collected with no one to leave it to.
Are you my mother??
@ Zoe ... if you've still got some of that stuff, think about donating it to the Roseville Historical Society (557 Lincoln Street, Roseville, CA 95678).
Is this another one of those UFO sitings being blamed on an crashed weather balloon deals?
We all see the photo of Earl from time to time. Now we see the bride of Earl. Truly a lovely dame.
Tim in Tennessee - you've GOT to send this photo in to the magazine Reminiscing so that everyone can enjoy it, and perhaps someone can identify it. It's a reader-written magazine where people send in their memories, photos and mysteries. They would ADORE this!
got to be lee harvey oswald's mother
no lydia, i'm pretty sure she is leaning. the right bottom hem of her dress is at her midline. draw a straight line up from the hem and it goes through her head. she's listing badly, either against the wind or during mid-fall, but that leaning is no optical illusion.
Lad, I think it's partly the wind and partly the fact that the photo is crooked. If you look closely, the line of the sidewalk inthe background is slightly out of true. If you were to tilt the photo until that line is horizontal, the bride would be more upright as well.