Sepia Saturday 781 : 28 June 2025

 

Sometimes all you need is a name. You can be sorting through a pile of old family photographs, desperately trying to work out if the subject is your Great Uncle Joe or Cousin Mabel's young nephew, when you suddenly find a name pencilled on the reverse of the photograph and all your questions are answered. Of course, it is Harold Elk! And then you suddenly realise that you haven't the slightest idea who on earth Harold Elk is, and you have never come across that name before. And then you are back at square one: sat on one end of a plaster bench, lost and alone. Share your old photographs - whether you know who they are or you don't - here on Sepia Saturday. Just post your post on or around Saturday 28th June 2025 and add a link to the list below.

The prompt photographs for July all come from the collection of the US National Archives on Flickr Commons. Here is a preview of the month ahead.

Sepia Saturday 780 : 21 June 2025

 

Sorry, late again. Car broke down on a mountain road. Memo to self - buy a new car!

Sepia Saturday 779 : 14th June 2025

 

"Man With A Chair" is a familiar caption for all collectors of old photographs. If old photographs are anything to go by, the average man - and indeed woman - of the first part of the twentieth century did little else but stand next to a chair and have their photograph taken. There are reasons, of course, for the use of chairs as props in early photographs: shutter speeds were slow and subjects had to keep still for a long time. So this week get out your men standing, your women standing and even your chairs standing. Whatever is standing, post you post on or around Saturday 14th June 2025 and add a link to the list below. And whilst you are standing about, take a look at what is next on Sepia Saturday.

Sepia Saturday 778 : Saturday 7th June 2025

 

For those who like themes, there are plenty of themes in this week's Sepia Saturday image. There are swans, rivers, boats and food. Whatever olkf photograph you are wanting to share this week will probably fit into one of those categories. So share your old images on or around Saturday 7th June 2025 and add a link to the list below. And we have themes a-plenty this week because we not only have the future themes for the rest of June, there is the July collection as well.