Anyone around who might be able to help me put an approximate date on these photos by the clothing or hairstyles or something? [link] I'm nearly positive they were taken in Vienna; if not Vienna, then Budapest. I'm guessing twenties, but I can't get any more specific than that -- the person who took most of the other pictures in the box where I found these was born in 1914, so I'm not sure if he would have been old enough to take these, too.
(Some of the exposures are a bit weird -- I was mostly going for whatever would get the facial features clearest, to try to identify the people, and on some of them, that ended up obscuring some other detail, or making the overall photo too dark.)
beth, thank you for the reminder.
Healthma~~ to your niece, Ginger from me, too.
I drink far too much coffee, but mostly instant these days.
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Hil, the shoes remind me of the thirties: [link]
Thanks, Deena. The shoes do look like those, but I'm wondering how long they were in style. If the younger woman in the pictures is who I think it is, then these could have been very early thirties at the latest, and the negatives are glass, and my brief google tells me that people pretty much stopped using them by the end of the twenties.
I'm no expert at all, but the pictures seem later than 20s to me. They look similar enough to the pictures I've seen of my family that are 30s.
Hmm. Thanks, guys. The people in the pictures might not be who I think they are. If they are the thirties, then the glass negatives seem confusing, since I've got about 100 film negatives of baby pictures of someone born in 1933 in the same box where I found these.
It is just as likely that my pictures of people in the 30s are wearing older styles!
Also, since these are Europe, and yours (I'm assuming) are America, the styles might have been different. I sent an email to my dad's cousin, who would have known these people when she was a little girl (she was born in 1933), to see if she can identify anyone.
I don't think there were many glass negatives past the mid '20s. Skirt length didn't get that short until into the '20s.
Hil, I'm guessing late twenties to early thirties from the hair. Probably right around the turn of the decade.
