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Memories Kept In A Vintage Album

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A collection of photos of landmarks most in Australia, photos of limestone and mountain gorges. All in a found vintage photo album.
A collection of photos of landmarks most in Australia, photos of limestone and mountain gorges. All in a found vintage photo album.

I found a dusty album tucked away on an antique store shelf. It’s the kind of piece you almost overlook— until you open it.

As I started flipping through the pages, it didn’t take long to realize this was more than a handful of postcards — this was a collection of someone’s memories. The large pages contained photos and postcards of places visited and moments kept — quietly built over time.

Closing an old album found at an antique store in Pennsylvania USA. It contains travel photos and postcards collected abroad. The cover is brown and it holds six postcards/photos per inside plastic sleeve pages.
Photos and postcards gathered that have been pulled from an old vintage album that I found at an antique store—ranging from famous Parisian landmarks to Venetian streets and allegorical lakes—show the eclectic taste of the original traveler.

You can find random postcards in just about any vintage shop — but this was different. I felt I needed time to look through it more closely, so I brought it home.

A photo of a postcard reproduction of a image of a Floating Maenad from the House of the Ship, Pompeii. A 1st-century Roman fresco depicting a follower of Dionysus in mid-dance, holding her symbolic thyrsus staff. This was one of many postcards and photo memories added to this vintage (found) album.
From the album — a vintage postcard of a Maenad in motion, from a fresco in Pompeii.
A photo I took of landmark postcard reproductions in a book of memories found at my local antique store. Show here is a page from the book and one postcard pulled from the pages of the grand architecture of Italy, featuring the rusticated walls of the bell tower of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore and a hint of the Palarro Pitti in France.
From the album — vintage postcards of Palazzo Pitti, Florence, and the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italy.

Between these postcard-filled pages were a few photographs of a couple. Nothing labeled or explained — just enough to suggest a life moving through these scenes.

I found myself wondering who they were and the order of their travels. The album seems to move through Europe first, and later Australia, though it’s hard to know for certain.

It likely came from a home that was cleared out. There’s a quiet sadness in that—a collection once kept close, now finding its way into someone else’s hands.

I felt the need to share some of it here, so perhaps a few of those memories can carry on.

One of the postcards that I added to this already rich album of photos and travel postcards from someones trips and memories abroad. Here I took a a photo of a postcard reproduction titled Le Lac Mystérieux, originally created by Adrienne Ball-Demont sitting among the collection in the book.
From my own collection — a postcard reproduction of Le Lac Mystérieux by Adrienne Ball-Demont.

A while back, I bought some postcards from a seller in Turkey. This stork scene was one of the cards in the pack. It’s not a part of the original album, but I can easily imagine it finding a place among the pages of this book.

Collected — essays and visual studies gathered over time.
Star divider used has two hand drawn lines with a star in the center, used as a content break and signals new or different content below. This doodle style illustration is in a medium charcoal gray.

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Hatbox turned side table with metal hairpin legs. This feature photo shows the wooden hat box painted white with a stencil: Antiquities Rue Lafayette on it in a flea market booth style with french style mugs and a small ornate ceramic white jewelry box.
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Square Feature image of a DIY three tiered organizer made with scrap wood and 12 vintage round and scalloped tart tins. There are four on each tier and they hold beads, small jewelry and bracelets with tags for sale in a vintage antique booth.
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Scene of small trinkets including a vintage horse in ivory plastic cake topper, a small porcelain teacup with floral in red, green and blue with a gold 4-leaf clover and babys breath in the teacup. in front is one multi-sided amber die with 7 at the top and a vintage brass charm with an ivory glass feather.
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