From automobiles, inclined planes to boats, hot-air balloons, barrels of fun, or fake Niagara Falls, Balanced Rock,... Here is a hilarious photo collection from Alan Mays that shows what souvenir portraits looked like in the early 20th century.
Aren't You Also on the Pig |
Aboard the Airship Noll |
Atlantic City Life Boat |
Aunt Lora and Uncle Will Are Coming Home |
Braving the Whirlpool Rapids at Niagara Falls |
Coming Towards Home with Lena Under the Seat |
Daddy on the Deck of the F-6 Submarine |
Driving and Relaxing |
Driving the Red Devil Away |
Fahrt ins Blaue |
Father and Son with Alligators |
Flying Family |
Flying High in Colorado |
Flying High in Pittsburgh |
Garden of the Gods, Colorado |
Going Dutch on the Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J |
Going Some with the Humdinger of Seattle |
Grinning on Airship Pickens |
High over Zurich |
High-Flying Fivesome |
Holding a Bucket Under Niagara Falls |
I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm Happy on My Way |
I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm on My Way |
I'll Eat Oranges for You - You Throw Snowballs for Me |
Inflight Infant in an Early Biplane |
Man and Dog with Alligators on the Beach |
Man in a Biplane |
Men in Bowler Hats |
Mother and Son at Niagara Falls |
New Orleans Jail |
On a Slow Train through Arkansas |
On an Airship from San Francisco to New York |
Out for a Drive |
Paddling Their Own Canoe at Olcott Beach |
Seeing Blackpool |
Soldiers Aloft |
Spirit of St. Louis |
The Jolly Crew of Atlantic City Life Boat No. 5 |
Three Dapper Gents in an Airship |
Three Guys in a Plane over Paris |
Tiajuana Tipplers |
Too Many Places to Go and Too Much to See |
Two Cowboys and a Policeman at Brother Jones' Gin Mill |
Two Guys, Two Bottles, and a Paper Moon |
Two Men and a Wheelbarrow |
We Are Having a Fine Time |
You Are the Gorilla My Dreams |