Old Photos

[ardeegee]

Originally Posted by dreams

I love the large family photo and, if I am understanding correctly, it was taken before 1895?

Yes, that date taken from the death date of the man identified in the photo. I don't know when before 1895, just that I'm pretty sure he wasn't sitting up there Weekend at Bernie's style.

I really need to get mine scanned before they deteriorate even more and we lose our picture into the family past.

The one I have is an 8x10 print made from the older photo, not the original. Don't know when that print was made, but it had to be before my great-grandfather died in 1964. What you really need to do is ask your oldest relatives who they can identify in the old photos while you still can.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

I come from several long lines of shutterbugs and married into a family of them. Being one myself, all of the family albums eventually came to rest at my house. I had full albums dating back to the 1910's.

It took me a solid year, but I scanned them all. Evenings, weekends, whenever I had a few minutes. Over 9,000 photos. They were saved to CD's and remained safe in my strongbox during the tornado. YAY!

One of my best work friend's maiden name is Gay. (no jokes, please) My mother's father's mother's maiden name was Gay. We knew it must be related, because they were in the Selma, Ala, region back in the day. She was able to match one of my photos to the people by the same name in one of her mother's albums. So we turned out to be long-lost cousins or something. Astonishing how small the world really is!

On my dad's side a few generations back, we were Strange. It was originally Le Strange, but they Americanized it. All they could come up with was Strange.

So my blood is Gay and Strange!

Oh, I'm so glad the photo CDs remained safe! And Bellatrix is your long-lost cousin? Seriously, Le Strange is a cool name. My Fallon greatx2 above married a fraulein, Clara Weingart. I love that last name. Fallon is a cool last name as well. Sadly, I have neither, my actual last name is just one of those very common, old-English trade surnames.

Anyway, I was jazzed to find this photo. Unlike most of the photos I have, this one is identified. In fact, there is a lot writing on the back giving her exact name and age at the time of the photo. She was Amelie "Amy" Borde, my great-grandmother's first cousin. She died in the shipwreck La Bourgogne with their grandmother (my greatx3) and Amy's mother (my great-grandmother's aunt) only a couple years after that picture was taken and she was already 1/2 an orphan. Her father, Dr. Borde, died months after she was born. Anyway, that is why that family tomb has weeping angels on a sinking ship on top of it.


This and this are that great-grandmother who saved all these pictures and my grandfather.

[ardeegee]

Here's another one of my old photos that I've digitized. That's my grandmother and mother in 1942, when my grandmother was 22. The photo is printed on a postcard, and it seems to have been made by one of the street photographers that used to go around photographing people on the streets of cities. I think it is a great shot.

http://s313.photobucket.com/albums/l...ent=ml0006.jpg

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by ardeegee

Here's another one of my old photos that I've digitized. That's my grandmother and mother in 1942, when my grandmother was 22. The photo is printed on a postcard, and it seems to have been made by one of the street photographers that used to go around photographing people on the streets of cities. I think it is a great shot.

http://s313.photobucket.com/albums/l...ent=ml0006.jpg

It really is a great shot! Here are a couple of my grandparents as young people before they married 1939-1941, taken by such street photographers in NOLA. The one of Grammy is particularly good and look what 23-yr-old girls work to work in 1939.

http://twitpic.com/52xk3x

http://twitpic.com/52xjrk

[jgaiser]

Someday I need to finish scanning an old album of my paternal grandparents, but I've got a couple I did do online.

My Grandparents wedding picture. At the turn of the century (1900)

http://www.gaiser.org/MarriageLarge.jpg

And a picture of my Grandfathers Supply House in Touchet, Washington (east of Pasco). Taken late 1910 or early 1911. My Grandfather is at center, leaning on window sill.

http://www.gaiser.org/TouchetLarge.jpg

[vivaldirules]

I recently spent an afternoon watching and rewatching an Edison film from 1901 of Morecambe. The images, probably together with the narrator's voice and accompanying music, kept drawing me back. I couldn't keep my eyes off the faces of the people, paricularly the SHUMS but also the man twirling his umbrella (or parasol), the one-legged man with his crutch, the ladies pushing their strollers, one guy in the crowd who looked like he was amused and probably had some interesting comments to make. It's just really interesting to see this slice of life 110 years ago. So then I had to go to Google Maps and locate it. I then also had to go to the street level view and travel the same route virtually today. It's curious to see not nearly so many people there now but it was a little startling to see another man on crutches. I paused when I saw the WWI memorial near the jetty and realized that the cute little SHUMS in the Edison film likely would have fought in the Somme or somewhere fifteen years later.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

Someday I need to finish scanning an old album of my paternal grandparents, but I've got a couple I did do online.

My Grandparents wedding picture. At the turn of the century (1900)

http://www.gaiser.org/MarriageLarge.jpg

And a picture of my Grandfathers Supply House in Touchet, Washington (east of Pasco). Taken late 1910 or early 1911. My Grandfather is at center, leaning on window sill.

http://www.gaiser.org/TouchetLarge.jpg

Very nice and I love the old store! Here is one of my grandfather as a baby and his aunt (in 1915).

http://twitpic.com/4hghgu

Originally Posted by vivaldirules

I recently spent an afternoon watching and rewatching an Edison film from 1901 of Morecambe. The images, probably together with the narrator's voice and accompanying music, kept drawing me back. I couldn't keep my eyes off the faces of the people, paricularly the SHUMS but also the man twirling his umbrella (or parasol), the one-legged man with his crutch, the ladies pushing their strollers, one guy in the crowd who looked like he was amused and probably had some interesting comments to make. It's just really interesting to see this slice of life 110 years ago. So then I had to go to Google Maps and locate it. I then also had to go to the street level view and travel the same route virtually today. It's curious to see not nearly so many people there now but it was a little startling to see another man on crutches. I paused when I saw the WWI memorial near the jetty and realized that the cute little SHUMS in the Edison film likely would have fought in the Somme or somewhere fifteen years later.

Whoa! That is amazing. Thank you very much for posting it.

[dreams]

DixieGal - that is so great that your photos were saved!

ardeegee - beautiful photo (she is so young and innocent looking). I love the background store front of the time.

VR - I loved that clip! I ended up losing a ton of time watching a bunch of others by BFfilmes. I even viewed the great walking races and "women riding bicycles" (in long dresses!). Thanks for sharing that.

covingtoncat73 - isn't strange to actually think about grandparents as young and carefree people, instead of what we remember them as? Your grandmother looked like she was full of fun.

jgaiser - men actually wore those sleeve protectors! I know they are something I have always related to Charles Dickens' time period, but to see them being worn by real people was great.

[ardeegee]

A new old photo-- found it in a cousin's Facebook albums with only a suggestion to the family name. I checked my genealogical database, and the number of children was right, the sex ratio (4 male, 7 female) was right, the apparent age range was right... yep, I was able to confirm the IDs and the year of the photo.

The last group photo I posted was from my mother's mother's father's side of the family-- this one is from my mother's mother's mother's side. The third girl from the right with her hands on the shoulders of the younger girl is my great-grandmother at the age of 15 in 1910, 2 years before she married my great-grandfather.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...yenhansed.jpg/

[dwig]

"Old Photo Addicts" should avoid Shorpy (http://shorpy.com) at all costs. A visit there could send your simple, manageable addiction into overdose.

I'm afraid that I'm a hopeless case as I visit the site at least one a day...

Shorpy's main blog is mostly historical images and there is a Member's Blog section that is dominantly old family images. Which reminds me ... I haven't visited the site in the last few hours ...

[AJ Starr]

As a researcher of my own family genealogy I have tons of old pictures. But this pair really made me perk up.

The first picture of the old man is from the, I believe, Smithsonian collection. He is positively identified as Old Tom Starr. Who, by the way, is my great, great grandfather.

The second picture is posted on a "genealogy cousin's" site as an unknown man. Note the abundance of guns he is carrying.

I took the two faces and put them side by side and compared items like hair, ear, nose. I think it is the same man. Old Tom Starr as a young man.

What do you guys say....

AJ

BTW, if you don't know who Tom Starr Sr is, just Wikipedia him, he is quite an historical Cherokee.

[AJ Starr]

Another old picture I actually have the "tin type" plate for, is this. I think they may be a couple of the Starr brothers, but I do not know who they are.

AJ

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by AJ Starr

As a researcher of my own family genealogy I have tons of old pictures. But this pair really made me perk up.

The first picture of the old man is from the, I believe, Smithsonian collection. He is positively identified as Old Tom Starr. Who, by the way, is my great, great grandfather.

The second picture is posted on a "genealogy cousin's" site as an unknown man. Note the abundance of guns he is carrying.

I took the two faces and put them side by side and compared items like hair, ear, nose. I think it is the same man. Old Tom Starr as a young man.

What do you guys say....

AJ

BTW, if you don't know who Tom Starr Sr is, just Wikipedia him, he is quite an historical Cherokee.

ummmmmmmmmmmm

and Belle too?

[crich70]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

I only have the gg grandfather one scanned so far.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/AnemicOak/WM.jpg

He came to Texas from Nassau (now part of the state of Hesse, Germany) with his parents in 1845/46 and later served with the 36th TX Cavalry in the Civil War.

Interesting. I also have an ancestor who came from Germany. He was born in 1800 (christened at Worms Cathedral) and emigrated to the U.S. in 1814. I don't have a picture of him though. Might be one somewhere I imagine as he helped found Mason City Iowa. He bought land from the Government and sold plots to people who were Masons, hence the name Mason City.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by dreams

DixieGal - that is so great that your photos were saved!

ardeegee - beautiful photo (she is so young and innocent looking). I love the background store front of the time.

VR - I loved that clip! I ended up losing a ton of time watching a bunch of others by BFfilmes. I even viewed the great walking races and "women riding bicycles" (in long dresses!). Thanks for sharing that.

covingtoncat73 - isn't strange to actually think about grandparents as young and carefree people, instead of what we remember them as? Your grandmother looked like she was full of fun.

jgaiser - men actually wore those sleeve protectors! I know they are something I have always related to Charles Dickens' time period, but to see them being worn by real people was great.

They used mustache cups as well back in the day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moustache_cup Now you usually only see them in museums (at least that's the only place I've ever seen any). Getting your photo taken back in the day must have been an ordeal. You had to stay still so the picture came out properly and people didn't smile in the pictures because they'd have to hold the same expression for several minutes while the image was imprinted on the plate, and holding a smile that long would be painful after a while (so I understand) not to mention getting a picture taken was expensive as well.