Vintage Photos on eBay

Yesterday I went to eBay and searched on the string "vintage photo." I got 417,368 hits. The first item in that catalog is reproduced above. So many of the subsequent ones were almost as bizarre.

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Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 04, 2012
Category: Eccentrics | Photography and Photographers | Nineteenth Century | Twentieth Century

Comments

I was impressed to see a picture of Marie Curie. Bunches of muscle men at a gay beach pics which surprised me.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/04/12 at 11:14 AM

I filtered the category by "nude" and "-gay". And spent a half-hour there. Sort of like a cheapskate's Playboy.

I gotta go have a lie down now...

Posted by KDP on 10/04/12 at 11:54 AM

My maternal grandmother was a hoarder of photos. After both my grandparents died we dug through those pix many of which look like these.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 10/04/12 at 02:00 PM

Speaking of vintage photos and people....
Betty White is still sexy and was way back in the day too:

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/terminal01/2011/1/26/12/betty-white-vintage-nude-photo-nsfw-28858-1296063411-35.jpg

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 10/04/12 at 04:02 PM

http://www.ebay.com/itm/W-A-Bentley-Original-Vintage-Snowflake-Photo-/310394202620?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item4844efa9fc

3k for a snowflake anyone??

Posted by ROB on 10/04/12 at 06:22 PM

...and of course the ancester of all facebook cat photos... http://www.ebay.com/itm/LION-IN-CONVERTIBLE-Great-Provenance-VINTAGE-/300596854750?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item45fcf7ffde

Posted by ROB on 10/04/12 at 06:34 PM

Betty White was a beautiful woman, and as you said, she is still quite lovely.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/04/12 at 10:04 PM

If you like vintage photos, this series by Lewis Hine on child labour in the US of A a hundred years ago is pretty stunning: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/

No Betty Whites in there.

Posted by Harvey on 10/06/12 at 07:50 PM

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