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The Velox Girl (Infrared Edit)

A girl.
A smile.
A camera.
Click.

Later:
A black-and-white print
(No name, no details).

Much later:
The black-and-white print
On eBay.
Sold.
(No name, no details).
The girl -
Who knows?

Note:
I bought the original photograph on eBay. It was printed on Kodak Velox paper, a very slow printing paper producing a blue-black image suitable for contact printing. As the original print measures 3.25 x 4.25 inches it is reasonable to suppose the negative came from 118 type roll film such as a Box Brownie might need, or a Kodak Model 3 or a Hawk-Eye. All this helps to date the photograph, but the best indicator is on the reverse which has a repeat motif of ‘Kodak/Velox/Paper' in three lines. That dates it to sometime in the 1950s or 1960s, unless the developer was using old stock. Kodak discontinued that paper in 1968.

Kodak advertised Velox as ‘the only photographic paper made exclusively for amateur negatives’. The imperfections on this particular print indicate it was not made by a laboratory striving to maintain a business reputation.

Collections of photographs which once meant something to somebody are a staple of house clearances. They are bought in auctions and sold online.
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4 comments

aNNa schramm said:

ein schönes Portrait ***
7 years ago ( translate )

Steve Bucknell said:

I Googled Velox girl and got: “Want to meet eligible single woman who share your zest for life? “ Zest for life is overstating it a bit.
7 years ago

The Limbo Connection replied to Steve Bucknell:

Well, I'm just a modern guy
Of course, I've had it in the ear before
I have a lust for life.
7 years ago

raingirl said:

photo print sold on ebay? well done. the human face (any face really) has such appeal. direct eye contact, even through the ages, draws one in.
6 years ago