Here's a neat series of midcentury slides that I stumbled upon in a friend's antique mall booth the other day. It appears to be the same man and woman featured in a variety of service attendant / customer situations: gas station / mechanic, waste removal, TV repair, leg inspector, etc. I super love the interesting array of background scenery detail, vintage cars, work uniforms, and most notably the highly fashionable wardrobe, hair, and make-up styles on the woman. Boy, with all of the hard work that is clearly on display here, I do hope she remembered to tip him well, too!
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How cool are these? I guess someone was working up a commercial photography portfolio? This seems too serious to be a lark but too staid to be a fetish. Man, I love the look of Kodak color positives.
Nearest I can date them--in the ten minutes I spent online--is based on that Philco TV. 1958 product catalogs list a model 4016-L 21-inch color TV (with the exclusive finger tip tuning system), which are a very close match. But the screen is squarier on the TV in the slide image, and the cabinet has opening for the speaker on the side, something I'm not seeing the Philco catalog from fifty-eight. So it might me a year or two on either side.
I wonder if these slides were created by an advertisement agency to show potential clients samples of their work.
While the pictures were staged, we get a glimpse of the late fifties early sixties Americana.
The last slide features the model taking a nap after a hard day of posing for the photo shoot, at least I would like to think so.
Thanks once again, Karswell, for sharing these images with us.
These are amazing! I have sooo many questions!
Haha, I believe I have a few questions of my own as well!
The last photo was not part of this slide set but it was included in a separate stack within the same boxed collection. I’ll look this over again next time I’m there to see if I can find a more definitive date when these slides were produced. Thanks for the comments! :)
Yeah if I was to take a wild guess, I'd say this was paid for and not a sampler because that's a lot of locations and a lot of different clothes / uniforms / times. There would have been a pretty big cost associated with that, but I could easily be mistaken.
The last very candidate and probably secret shot just screams the time more than the other folders. Wood, everywhere. The bed frame is the same wood! And that lamp fixture!
Dug around and found some info:
Advertising photos for The Cleveland Overall Company, a prominent manufacturer of industrial work clothes, was a significant industrial entity in the mid-20th century, particularly during the 1950s. Founded in 1915 by Samuel Rosenthal, the company specialized in garments like bib overalls, coveralls, pants, shirts, and shop coats.
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