About what date do you put on this photo?

[DDTJRAC]

 

[BrianShaw]

I was going to suggest 1958 but noticed something rather odd in the photo that makes me question it's authenticity. What's the source?

 

[Molli]

The letter above the lady's head reads "May 15, 1958" Before seeing that, I was putting it at late fifties, possibly very early sixties, based on her dress.

If the "something rather odd" thing that you noticed, @BrianShaw , was the back to front Ansco packaging, I'm fairly certain its the slanted mirror that makes up part of the casing.
If you saw something else, do tell! I love a mystery. ☺

 

[BrianShaw]

Ahh.... now that I look at it with the suggestions of a mirror, I'm completely mistaken.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Anyone notice all the flashbulbs om the shelves?

 

[Molli]

Ahh.... now that I look at it with the suggestions of a mirror, I'm completely mistaken.

Easily done. Do you have any idea how much time I put into trying to figure out how all of those white blotches got into the sky??

 

[Rod Klukas]

Anyone notice all the flashbulbs om the shelves?

They are Press 25s. Super common into the 1970s.

 

[MattKing]

The brochure for an Omega DII relates to an enlarger that was discontinued in 1954.
Looking at the Kodachrome movie film, I don't see any sign of any Super 8, which was introduced in 1965.
So somewhere between 1958 and 1965.

 

[Europan]

It’s pre-Kodachrome II which came out in 1961.

 

[chuckroast]

The brochure for an Omega DII relates to an enlarger that was discontinued in 1954.
Looking at the Kodachrome movie film, I don't see any sign of any Super 8, which was introduced in 1965.
So somewhere between 1958 and 1965.

My every day driver is a push up DII with a Zone VI VC cold light head

Nice piece of history.

 

[MattKing]

My every day driver is a push up DII with a Zone VI VC cold light head

Nice piece of history.

You probably don't display a retail brochure for your enlarger though

 

[koraks]

Easily done. Do you have any idea how much time I put into trying to figure out how all of those white blotches got into the sky??

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Oh God, they have landed and you captured it on film! So considerate also of the UFO people to use our flight-dedicated infrastructure.

 

[mmerig]

The brochure for an Omega DII relates to an enlarger that was discontinued in 1954.
Looking at the Kodachrome movie film, I don't see any sign of any Super 8, which was introduced in 1965.
So somewhere between 1958 and 1965.

Thanks to slackercrurster fro such an interesting picture.

The brochure is for the Omega D2 (not DII) that became available in 1955 (as did Anscochrome), so without the 1958 letter, that would put it for sure at or after 1955. The photo looks staged, pushing Ansco, so my guess it dates to 1958.

 

[F4U]

1960

 

[djdister]

Okay, photo-sleuths, have a look at this one and guess the year. This is the Robert Brierly Hobby Shop in Columbus, Ohio.

 

[chuckroast]

Okay, photo-sleuths, have a look at this one and guess the year. This is the Robert Brierly Hobby Shop in Columbus, Ohio.

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The Argoflex E was made from 1940-1948 so the picture is sometime in that interval. Since the store seems well stocked and there is a well dressed fellow behind the counter, it argues for this being post-war, but that's not definitive.

Also, the film tank agitator was made in the mid-40s.

I tried to make out the name of the E-3 surface graded paper on the shelf, but no dice.

 

[Rod Klukas]

Easily done. Do you have any idea how much time I put into trying to figure out how all of those white blotches got into the sky??

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If it was shot through a window, the interrior overhead lights are reflecting...

 

[mmerig]

This ones tougher -- The Agfa Argoflex model E (I guess it's an E) was made from 1940 to 1948 (as chuckroast posted before I finished this). Verichrome film (not the Panchromatic version) was made until 1956, when the pan version replaced it, according to various sources. So roughly 1940 to 1955, assuming that the store would have shown ad posters for the pan version after 1956, but I agree with chuckroast in that it looks post WWII so more like 1948 to 1955.

 

[DDTJRAC]

The letter above the lady's head reads "May 15, 1958" Before seeing that, I was putting it at late fifties, possibly very early sixties, based on her dress.

If the "something rather odd" thing that you noticed, @BrianShaw , was the back to front Ansco packaging, I'm fairly certain its the slanted mirror that makes up part of the casing.
If you saw something else, do tell! I love a mystery. ☺

You guys are good detectives!

 

[DDTJRAC]

I was going to suggest 1958 but noticed something rather odd in the photo that makes me question it's authenticity. What's the source?

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Don't know source. Just acquired from a picker.

 

[MattKing]

The brochure is for the Omega D2 (not DII) that became available in 1955 (as did Anscochrome), so without the 1958 letter, that would put it for sure at or after 1955.

I plead poor eyesight, not poor research!
I swear I read "II" and not "2" !

 

[mshchem]

Anyone notice all the flashbulbs om the shelves?

I don't see any blue bulbs, appear to all be clear. Polaroid roll film.

 

[MTGseattle]

These are awesome!

Somewhere (my folks or my Uncle), there's a slide of my Grandma working at the Kodak counter at a department store in Minneapolis, MN in the 50's. If I can get my hands on the slide sometime, I'll get it scanned and post it somewhere on here.

 

[gbroadbridge]

But what camera and film was used to take that first image?

 

[djdister]

The Argoflex E was made from 1940-1948 so the picture is sometime in that interval. Since the store seems well stocked and there is a well dressed fellow behind the counter, it argues for this being post-war, but that's not definitive.

Also, the film tank agitator was made in the mid-40s.

I tried to make out the name of the E-3 surface graded paper on the shelf, but no dice.

The graded paper on the shelf is Kodabromide. Also in the shop is a B&J Press Camera with Revolving back, a Revere 8 Turret camera, a Ciroflex TLR, a booklet called "Enlarging is Thrilling" (published 1945), a Fed-Flash made by Federal, a Kalart Focuspot and a Kalart Master Flashing Unit, and a Mendelsohn Universal Flash Speed Gun Model E.