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imthecatlady:

bears-official:

sunnydeww:

imthecatlady:

Okay so here’s the lowdown. I found 4 sets of medium format negatives while I was thrift shop hunting a few weeks ago. They were sitting in a box of old vintage photographs in these plastic sleeves, and from what I could tell, they had been taken sometime in the 50’s. So obviously I brought them home, and today finally had them scanned in, and holy wow they are beautiful!!

NOW this is where I need the Internet’s help. I would absolutely love to find the women in these photographs/the photographer who took them. The only info I have is that the negatives were found in a thrift store on Hull St in Richmond, VA. They are medium format, and judging by the style of dress, made in 1940-1950. The owner of the thrift store had no idea where they came from. I’m posting the best/clearest scans of the images, so if y’all could reblog the shit out of this, I’m hoping we can find the owners of these amazing images.

this is my favorite thing in the universe

@imthecatlady Did you ever any info? Based on the qualities of the lens, the fairly prominent light leak (along the left edges of a few images) and the vertical film path I’m guessing these were taken with a lower-end TLR, if this is true they almost certainly were not taken by a professional, these were popular consumer cameras of the time. Is there any emulsion info printed in the edges of the frames?  This may tell us era more specifically and may also tell us whether it was pro or consumer market film.

@bears-official​  this is the most up to date info that’s been gathered!! The edges of the film actually seem to have been trimmed, so the only numbers visible are in this document : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JPNcg9YIurEg3REat9bS2_-y7F8bsJROz8Ur7eugVSI/edit