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For my old photo collection, I found these two antique real-photo postcards in a mixed bin at a small antique shop. They were $1.50 each. I just could not pass them up! Under what circumstances were these photos taken? And who felt the need to make them into postcards? And why this strange duplication/enlargement treatment?

They have names written on the back in pen. Please meet George McEntyre! (This one also says “mother’s half brother” interesting.) What is going on with that tie?? It must be some style I’m not familiar with. Or maybe he just caught it in some sort of machinery and ripped half of it off, and then decided to have a portrait! lol

This, I assume, is George’s wife, Millie McEntyre. I wish I were there when this picture was taken. I bet there’s a smile in there somewhere. I’d get it out. These have no dates on them. Hard to judge when they might be from. Evidently, a time when they didn’t smile for photographs. There’s a bit of a little house showing behind Millie. Looks rustic.