Laura Emily de la Torre Bueno is a longtime friend with a better eye for the bizarre than even my own, and more basic wit than anybody you're likely to meet. She has occasionally sent me images she found in her travels, and they need their own space. Her 1963 persona should also be appreciated.

Some are just ever so Goreyesque:

but this one is tragic:

This one is likely a photograph of a parlor enlargement, originally probably a tintype:

Parlor enlargements were done by specialized artists, and almost always were memorials for family members who had died.

There are millions of new-baby pictures, most secure in anonymity, but this one is labelled 'Sadie Brown' on the back:

This one is simply demented:

Sometimes the Fates grant us entrée into a while life, in this case via a box of snapshots and portraits covering about 30 years. Here are two to get us started:
Joe Wilner in about 1935

Joe Wilner in about 1960
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Joe Wilner needs a page all his own

This one looks like a character from Deadwood:

On the back it says "Mr. Winance who I was engage to." Clearly a lucky escape...

I don't know whether it's better to take this seriously or privilege its frivolity:

I didn't know the name of the process for blue prints until MrWaterslide denominated them as cyanotypes, but the knees are pretty eloquent: