Tchapman

Ha. yes the tractor is sharp edges no doubt, I'm speaking more about the car and cat pic that seems to have left to right shake.

I have looked at the Brownie Hawkeye, it has a view finder on the top so you would look down onto the viewfinder. But for a lady that had maybe never taken any pictures before, is it possible she could have borrowed a Hawkeye and aimed it from eye level and taken the photo without the viewfinder? These photos seem to have some effort to center the subjects so I lean towards someone looking in a viewfinder. These photos do all seem to be taken from face level. Camera shake is evident as noted earlier.

Thanks for all the ideas. No one is living to ask directly. At this point the only people related to the likely-suspect friends would be grandchildren. Probably going nowhere with that effort but it's fun trying to understand the story of what was going on back then. Outside of the yearly school pics, there ONLY exists 6 images of my mom until after graduation. So the few badly shot photos are a curiosity.

Good info Kmac! I am uploading the originals, and yes the face is very blurry. I looked at a sunlight - shadow site for this area, the car photo was about 8am during the summer based on the shadows. I added the tractor photo from a mile away location, more like 1948-52 range. It has been cut but was originally the same print size as the car image. Tractor image definitely looks like it was taking by an adult at face level. My mom's parents did not own a camera, that's confirmed, it had to have been a friend of her parents. That's what I'm trying to track down to see if they had negatives or other images of her as well. It would have required 25 mile drive 1 way to take to the developer to drop off, then another trip to pick up which was a big deal.

Thanks for the suggestions. That is interesting to consider the height perspective of the shot as far as the camera type and the height of the person taking the pic.

Hello Hello I am trying to identify what camera was used for these pics of my mom dated 1955-56 era. I don't think her parents had cameras so this is a mystery who took them, this was 25 miles from the nearest city that would have had film developing. Not many photos were taken in this town during this period and farming area, cameras would been low end type. Any ideas on what these photos were shot on? The paper has Kodak Velox Paper on the rear