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Recently, a pal of mine (hi Gary!) gave me a small packet of old BW negs and what look like contact sheets of some of them. It is a “Hold-Pat Snapshots” album, without evidence of prior ownership or provenance. I think Gary said he picked them up as a flea market in the States a number of years ago.

Here is all the textual detail i can glean from the packet and backs of the prints:

Hold-Pat Snapshots and Film Negative Pocket
The Baldwin Studio
St. Louis, Mo.
Summer 1945 – 25ยข
(printed on Kodak Velox stock! – loved that paper when I printed fibre versions of it in the darkroom an eon ago)

And here are the images, scanned from the negs: