Old Photo - Early Model T With Smartly Dressed Family

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Monday, November 25, 2013 - 11:14 am:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Monday, November 25, 2013 - 11:17 am:

Always amazes me how big the T looks in old images like this. Folks must be bigger now as I don't believe Lizzy has gotten any smaller.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. Gustaf Bryngelson on Monday, November 25, 2013 - 11:33 am:

As a collector of uniforms from this period, I can say that people were indeed smaller then, it was partly due to diet, especially during gestation and infancy. Remember that food preservation was not that good then, and diet was seasonal, based primarily on what was currently available.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Coiro on Monday, November 25, 2013 - 02:40 pm:

A lower camera angle will always make a car appear bigger and the occupants, smaller.
If you shoot from the prone position, any car will look gargantuan.


Conversely, the higher angle from which you shoot, the smaller the car will appear until, at first
glance, you can't tell whether you're looking at a Matchbox toy.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Monday, November 25, 2013 - 02:53 pm:

Without a chin strap, or a ton of hat needles, I don't see how the ladies well appointed hat would stay on her head once they took off on the road.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tim Wrenn on Monday, November 25, 2013 - 07:29 pm:

Gee, should we be wearing goggles when we drive our Tees?? Yep Erich, I think folks now are a lot bigger than then. Looking at the drivers shoulder span, about that of todays women!
Looks like they're on their way to church. Certainly all decked out.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Thomas Mullin on Monday, November 25, 2013 - 07:58 pm:

How come he's the only one in a duster? Don't the others get dirty, too?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Andrew Deckman, Ogden Utah on Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 11:17 am:

bump


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By G.R.Cheshire on Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 11:29 am:

Taking into account the long exposure times for film in the day the car most likely was not running and it was probably posed for a mantle family photo. (Grass needs cutting)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Saylor on Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 11:36 am:

Whoa. That Packard 30 is no midget, either.


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