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Vintage 1949 Family Women Children Funeral Lot 3 Photos 3x4 B&W Gelatin Orig
Original vintage 1949 black-and-white gelatin-silver snapshot lot featuring three views of mid-century American family life.
One photograph shows a woman and man in coat and suit standing arm in arm at a flower-covered grave in a cemetery, framed by trees and monuments in the background.
A second snapshot depicts a young mother on the end of a living room sofa holding two small children while five more children sit in a row beside her, capturing a domestic interior with patterned couch cover, armchairs, and plain walls.
The third image presents a large group of women gathered around an older woman on a sofa for what appears to be a home celebration, with several figures holding glass bottles and one woman in the foreground serving a frosted cake on a plate.
All three are small rectangular prints on photographic paper with scalloped white borders; the backs carry a circular photographic paper logo, vertical \"LETTS, INC\" credit, blue-ink sequence numbers \"095\", \"096\", and \"967\", and black date stamps reading \"MAR 25 1949\" and \"OCT 7 1949\" along with handwritten blue-ink notes identifying family members by name, including the phrases \"Grandma\'s funeral\" and \"Marlene\".
The photographs are offered together as an unmounted and unframed lot of three original prints only, with any brass stand or handwritten information card visible in the listing images used solely for scale and presentation and not included.
Actual Measurements: ≈ 3\" x 4\".
Condition: Original vintage 1949 black-and-white gelatin-silver snapshot lot of three photographs with typical light handling and storage wear from age and use. Image surfaces show light overall age toning with faint surface scuffing, a few tiny specks, and small marks including a couple small beige stains along the margins of two prints but no tears, hard creases, or paper loss. The group of women celebration scene has a small brown stain and slight handling crease near the lower right margin, and the children\'s sofa scene print shows a subtle bend and tiny nick along the lower edge.
