r/FoundPhotos

Found in the inside pocket of a jacket I thrifted (one of the jackets in the photo!)

Just cant wait to frame her.

Gotta love the Kirkland Signature film. 😂

Today's slides are from August of 1960 and show the start of the family vacation the photographer archived. In arranging the slides for scanning I noticed that they have all been numbered by hand, many of them are not in the correct box, and there are some numbers missing. I spent time yesterday putting them in order since someone took the time to number them, they wanted the story told in that order.

Notes: The ship featured in the slides is the S.S. Maasdam (IV), the fourth Holland America Line vessel to carry the name.

Pic 9 gives us a look at the photographer behind the camera in a "selfie". We can also see that she is using a waist-level viewfinder.

I have not altered these in any way. Earlier posts I did some manual editing to adjust the white levels and used a native auto-focus feature on a few slides that were hard to see. I've since learned that the auto-focus used AI so from now in I will not edit the photos in any way. You will see them directly out of the scanner.

Tomorrow's slides will be from Box 2 labeled "S.S. Maasdam, Frank, Mike, Stewards, Nick"

After mild research I found out this is in Sarcelles, near Paris. My dad has been there around that time and the boys in the photos ARE cousins of his. But they were so close to the point I’ve never seen nor heard of them in my 24 years of living.
More mystery rolls may come in the future

I was wondering if anyone knows someone here. All photos from 2009-2011. There are more pics than what I posted!

Same view from my patio.

Blocked out the names just in case. The plaque reads,
“IN RECOGNITION OF
ATTITUDE AND SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE
[NAME]
HAS BEEN CHOSEN HONOR STUDENT
OF THE
199TH NEW AGENTS
HOME OFFICE SCHOOL OF
LIBERTY NATIONAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY
JULY 25, 1985”

I hope he’s enjoying retirement after a long and rewarding career in insurance.

There were actually hundreds in a box so I couldn't go through them all, but found some cool ones

On the back of the kids photo it says “1994 Sara, Lauren, Rachel, Kristen”

I found this in an Oxfam (charity shop) this morning. Mooltan was the Anglicised spelling of the city of Multan in Punjab province, Pakistan. I’m assuming these were children of a British military family living there. The photographer H.N. Madon seems to have been based there from the 1860s and also offered framing and photo supplies. He photographed the Nawab of Bahawalpur in around 1910. I’ve guessed this photo must be early 20th century? The Fauntleroy-looking outfit made me think earlier, but the mini uniforms the older boys are wearing look 1900s to me…I thought the British were still wearing red before then. I don’t know a lot about uniforms though, so if anyone knows more I’d be really interested!

Would be nice to return these if it was someone's family rather than just throw it in the trash.

Looking for some advice on some photographs, if any value and where to sell, any help would be greatly appreciated 👍