{"id":3391,"date":"2014-12-05T18:37:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:51:12","slug":"found-film-the-alberts-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=3391","title":{"rendered":"Found Film: The Alberts at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is another post in the series on the photos taken by Raymond Albert in and around Rumford, Maine in the late 1940s and early 1950s (see “Introducing the Alberts”<\/a>). \u00a0I’m guessing this roll is from Christmas, 1951.<\/p>\n

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It’s always interesting to see what’s under the Christmas trees from yesteryear. \u00a0The top photo comes from a different roll than the rest of the photos, and presumably from a different tree – maybe a visit to Grandma’s revealed that Santa had dropped off gifts there as well. \u00a0This year Santa brought dolls and large stuffed animals for the girls.<\/p>\n

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Everyone got shoes. \u00a0The top photo includes a pair of Kickerinos, and a box marked McGregor footwear.<\/p>\n

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And below we have more shoes and boots. \u00a0And a Parcheesi game!<\/p>\n

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And there is a whole series of photos showing the kids inexplicably jumping off the roof into the snow. \u00a0And Dad taking pictures of the whole thing, apparently! \u00a0I can’t imagine a soft landing….<\/p>\n

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The Christmas doll makes an appearance both here and on the sled\/toboggan – whoa! \u00a0That’s a lot of snow! \u00a0And below the full collection of stuffed animals and dolls, all on display.<\/p>\n

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Bunnies were raised in the back yard. \u00a0Do you suppose young Louise eventually had to learn the cold, hard realities of why bunnies were being raised in the back yard?<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to know exactly when these pictures were taken. \u00a0I initially guessed Christmas 1952 but it could equally have been 1951. \u00a0 Winter 1951 dumped nearly 6 feet of snow<\/a> on Rumford, Maine. \u00a0And who can forget the blizzard of 1951<\/a>, in which over 20 inches of snow fell on Portland in a 24-hour period?<\/p>\n

To see other posts about the Alberts, check out this link.<\/a>\u00a0 To see more of Raymond Albert\u2019s photos on Flickr, check out this album.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is the next post in the series.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is another post in the series on the photos taken by Raymond Albert in and around Rumford, Maine in the late 1940s and early 1950s (see “Introducing the Alberts”). \u00a0I’m guessing this roll is from Christmas, 1951. It’s always interesting to see what’s under the Christmas trees from yesteryear. \u00a0The top photo comes from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[856,1],"tags":[1502,625,55,1163,842,1453,1369,1462,1503,805],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-film-vintage-cameras","category-uncategorized","tag-albert-family","tag-black-and-white","tag-blizzard","tag-christmas","tag-found-film","tag-maine","tag-photographs","tag-rumford","tag-snow","tag-vintage"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7119,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions\/7119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}