Category Archives: Vintage Photos

US Orthopaedic Doc in Eastern Bloc 1958 – 1960. Part 3: Hungary

Posted on 9th Apr 2018 by petegrafton

US Doc in Eastern Bloc 1958 – 1960 __________________________________ Photos from the petegrafton collection Part 3: Hungary summer 1959 & Spring 1960. The Background We have, at the moment, no idea how it was that the American Doc, believed to … Continue reading →

Posted in Hungary, People, Vintage Photos | Tagged 1960 colour photo, Arpad Fejedelem utja, Budapest Medical University Surgical Clinic 1960, Central Budapest street 1959, Danube Budapest 1959, Dohany Street synogogue Budapest 1960 colour photo, Dr Andras Peto, Dr Pal Rubanyi, Dr.A Seyfried, Fisherman's Bastion Budapest 1959, Grand Hotel Margit Island Budapest 1959, Great Synagogue Budapest, Hungarian Uprising photos, Jack Esten photographer, Margit Gardens 1959, National Institute of Motor Therapy Budapest Hungary, Obuda, Orthopaedic practice Hungary, Palatinus Strand 1959, Szechenyihegy railway station 1960 colour photo, Szent Istvan Bazillika | 5 Comments

US Doc in Eastern Block 1958 – 1960. Part 2 Czechoslovakia

Posted on 19th Mar 2018 by petegrafton

US Doc in Eastern Bloc 1958 – 1960 ______________________________ photos from the petegrafton collection Part 2: Czechoslovakia Summer 1959. The Background We have, at the moment, no idea how it was that the American Doc, believed to be Dr A … Continue reading →

Posted in Czechoslovakia, People, Vintage Photos | Tagged Alexander Dubcek, Charles Street and Bridge Tower 1959 Prague, Colour View of the Pilsner Urquell brewery 1959, Czech hayfield in colour 1959, Czech Press Agency archive, Dr.A Seyfried, Edvard Capek Bazar colour photo 1959, Inside a Czech orthopedic clinic 1959, Jiri Menzel, Ladislav Bielik, militarycarclub.cz, Miroslav Vopata, Na samote u lesa, Orthopaedic practice Czechoslovakia 1959, Otaker Svec, Pilsen, Pilsner Urquell, Plzen, Plzenske Pivorary, Plzensky Prazdroj, Prague, Prague Spring, Praha 1959 in colour, Prazdrop Restaurant, Professor Miroslav Jaros, Pubmed Seyfried A, Restaurace Prazdroj, River Vltava, Rokcany, Seclusion Near a Forest, SFU, Stalin Monument Prague 1959, The Powder Tower 1959 Prague, Universita Karlova Klinika pro Orthoepedickov, US 2nd Infantry Division | 1 Comment

US Orthopaedic Doc in Eastern Bloc 1958 – 1960. Part 1: Poland and Bulgaria

Posted on 25th Feb 2018 by petegrafton

US Doc in Eastern Bloc 1958 – 1960 _________________________________ Photos from the petegrafton collection Part 1: Poland & Bulgaria Summer 1958. The Background We have, at the moment, no idea how it was that the American Doc, believed to be Dr … Continue reading →

Posted in Bulgaria, People, Poland, Vintage Photos | Tagged Acta Biochimica Polonica, Bulgaria 1958, Carpathian Mountains house 1958, Committee for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Darek Machaj, Dr Kowalski Zagorz, Dr Seyfried A, Dr.Seyfried, Gaz 21 Volga 1958, Gaz MZO Pobeda 1958, IFA Club, Lovech bridge, Lovech Bulgaria, Middle ages wheelbarrow, Orthopaedic practice Poland 1958, orthopedic photos Poland 1958, Orthopedic practice Poland 1958, Poland, Poland 1958, Polish men in traditional costume 1958, Polish Secret Police SB, Polish women and girls 1958, Polish women in traditional costume 1958, Reumatologia, Simca Vedette Versailles, Warsaw, Warsaw stadium 1958, Warszawa, Warszawa M20, Zagorz 1958 | 5 Comments

Photo Exhibitions – 1/60th sec on a wall.

Posted on 15th Nov 2017 by petegrafton

Photo Exhibitions – 1/60th of a second on a wall or Looking at Ourselves ___________________ Photo Exhibitions of the following photographers Brassaï (Gyula Halász) 1899 – 1984. Hungarian. Paris based. _____________________ Robert Doisneau 1912 – 1994. French. Paris based. _______________ … Continue reading →

Posted in England, France, Germany, People, Scotland, Vintage Photos | Tagged Albert Watson exhibition, Brassai exhibition, Hayward Gallery, HCB Foundation, Horst P Horst exhibition, Izis exhibition, Kids at Place Hebert, Lee Miller exhibition, Martin Munkacsi exhibition, National Portrait Gallery London, Odeon Renfield Street Glasgow, Olympus RC camera, Robert Doisneau exhibition, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Willy Ronis exhibition | Leave a comment

America at Home 2: The 1960s Kodachromes & Ektachromes

Posted on 19th May 2017 by petegrafton

America at Home 2: The 1960s. Kodachromes and Ektachromes. The 1950s, in some ways, were the high point of amateur Kodachrome slides (transparencies) taken in the United States. Things were changing in the 1960s. Foremost was that the US Government took Kodak … Continue reading →

Posted in People, USA, Vintage Photos | Tagged 126 Instamatic Ektachrome photo 1965, 1959 Sunbeam Alpine photo, 862 Medical Group US Air Force photo 1967, Antelope Valley Fair 1963 photo, Audrey Tatou film poster photo 2010, De Vrais Mensonges film poster photo 2010, Eagle River photo 1969, El Cariso Memorial 1961 photo, Fabian photo 1959, Florida State Fair 1967 Tampa, Forest Rangers El Cariso Park 1961 photo, John Moses Memorial Hospital 1967 photo, Kodachrome 11 box, Kodachrome photos, Kodachrome:The American Invention of our World, Kodak Ektachrome, Kodak Instamatic camera, Les Petits Chevaux du Moulin Rouge photo 2010, Tampa February 1967 photo, VW Beetle US photo 1964 | 2 Comments

America at Home: 1950s Kodachromes

Posted on 24th Apr 2017 by petegrafton

America at Home 1: 1950s Kodachromes Kodachrome: The American Invention of our World was the inspired title of a collection of professionally taken Kodachromes edited by Els Rijper and published by Delano Greenidge Edition, New York, 2002. Colour transparency photography had … Continue reading →

Posted in People, USA, Vintage Photos | Tagged Agfa Reversal film, BJP, Coral Gables Florida, Ektachrome, Fuji Provia, Fuji Sensia, Fuji Velvia, Gene Autry, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes record, Grand Hotel Macinac Island, Grand Hotel Mackinac Island, Hotel Riverside Frankie Laine, Houston Geophysical Club Thanksgiving, Houston Zoo entrance 1958, Hugo Jaeger, Ina Mae Spivey, Kodachrome, Kodachrome Daylight, Kodachrome Type F, Kodak Retina, Lake Huron, Leica, Niagara Falls Kodachrome 1951, Pete Grafton, Photo of Ladies White Only, RIP Kodachrome, Riverside California, Rolleiflex, Tyler Texas, Walla Walla College photo 1950s, Washington D.C., Zeiss Ikon Box Tengor | Leave a comment

The German Experience 1937 – 1972 & The Arran Series

Posted on 31st Mar 2017 by petegrafton

From the Pete Grafton Collection The German Experience Photo-snaps from The Third Reich to the Munich Olympics Breslau: following the end of the Second World War, and national boundary changes, Breslau became part of Poland and is now known as Wroclaw. … Continue reading →

Posted in Germany, People, Scottish Rural, Vintage Photos | Tagged Atika brand cigarettes photo, Baltic Beach chair 1950s photo, Braunschweig 1950s, Camouflaged German Army quarters Eastern Front, Das Gewissen Steht Auf Mosaik-Verlag 1954, Flensburg Hitler Youth, German army butcher, German soldiers with bottles of beer in wood, Heimat The Good Years photo 1, Heimat The Good Years photo 2, Injured German soldiers in hospital, Isle of Arran, Lochranza, Lochranza black and white photos, Munich Olympics motorcade 1972, Plon Germany 1943, The Nemesis of Power by Wheeler-Bennett, Zum Beispiel 42 Deutsche | Leave a comment

A 1950s Scottish Photo Album + Soho London 1966 & 2007

Posted on 24th Feb 2017 by petegrafton

A 1950s Scottish Photo Album + Soho London 1966 & 2007. (Two Worlds) ____________________________________ A 1950s Scottish Photo Album Photo captions: Pete Grafton. A selection of photos from a Scottish photo album, bought in Innerleithen, Scottish Borders, 2007. The black and white and … Continue reading →

Posted in England, France, Germany, People, Scotland, Scottish Rural, Vintage Photos | Tagged 11 Air Formation Signal Regiment, 127 film, 1950s Scottish photos, BAOR, Caffe Nero Old Compton Street, Compton News, Dirty White Boy Old Compton Street, Dundee tenement, Ford Anglia 1948, Ford Consul 1951, Ford Prefect 1953, Frank Norman, Harold Macmillan Never Had it So Good, Jeffrey Bernard, Lina Stores Brewer Street, Moulin Rouge 1957, Parmigiani Figlio, Police Internationale 1957, Purma Special camera, Queens Theatre Soho, Soho 1966 photos, Soho 2007 photos, Soho Books Old Compton Street, Soho London 1966, Soho Night and Day, Tony Abbro | 1 Comment

Girls and Young Women 1914 – 2006 + Scottish Rural: Carnwath Agricultural Show

Posted on 18th Nov 2016 by petegrafton

Girls and Young Women 1914 – 2006 & Scottish Rural: Agricultural Show, Carnwath ______________________ Girls and Young women 1914 – 2006 All photographs are from the pete grafton collection, except as detailed. ____________________________ The two … Continue reading →

Posted in England, Germany, Scotland, Scottish Rural, Vintage Photos | Tagged Calla Carnwath, Carnwath Agricultural Show, English Public Schoolgirls 1930s, Falconhall Schoolgirls Edinburgh 1916, FCUK Top High Street Edinburgh, Flensburg, Garry's Disco Van Carnwath, Ginestri's Ice Cream, Girl Scotland 1940, Girl with straw hat England 1914, Prize Rabbit, Scottish Country Dancing competition, Sheep shearing competition, Shepherds Crooks, Sisters 1920s Flensburg Germany, Swimwear 1930s, Texel sheep judging | Leave a comment