This arrived in my email today. It is my great-grandmother at twenty-three, in Sacramento, CA. I love to get these gray glimpses of what came before me, here in this ever-changing state of my birth. And... I like her swirly hair.
I wonder if she would've liked The Grateful Dead? Very pretty lady!
I have lots of old family photos, and large portraits in fancy frames of my great-grandparents up on my living room walls. I like having that bit of connection.
jo~1896 was the year. she was born in mobile, al., and moved to calif. later on. she and my paternal great- grandfather met this same year, and raised their family in s.f. bay area.
tree~ not sure she would have, though her grandson/my dad did! i love the ancestor connection too...always have.
mrs.g~i've heard that she turned out to be stern and strict(and mean?).like most parents then, i'm sure.)later pictures of her tell the tale.
I've only seen photos of one of my great-granmothers when she was already very old. It's so cool to see this one of yours when she was young. One great-grandmother came to this country in the 1870s, the other never made it out of eastern europe.
This arrived in my email today. It is my great-grandmother at twenty-three, in Sacramento, CA. I love to get these gray glimpses of what came before me, here in this ever-changing state of my birth. And... I like her swirly hair.
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How beautiful and elegant. Do you have any info as to what year this was taken? Did she travel across the US to Sacramento?
I wonder if she would've liked The Grateful Dead? Very pretty lady!
I have lots of old family photos, and large portraits in fancy frames of my great-grandparents up on my living room walls. I like having that bit of connection.
She looks far more pleasant than my grammas - they all seem to have dressed in dark colours and looked very crabby!
jo~1896 was the year. she was born in mobile, al., and moved to calif. later on. she and my paternal great- grandfather met this same year, and raised their family in s.f. bay area.
tree~ not sure she would have, though her grandson/my dad did! i love the ancestor connection too...always have.
mrs.g~i've heard that she turned out to be stern and strict(and mean?).like most parents then, i'm sure.)later pictures of her tell the tale.
annie, i SEE the family resemblance, I do!
What elegant portraits we used to take...when they were rare and special. How great to have a photographic history of your family.
i would love to have met you at folsom street. we could of got really drunk and crazy.
I've only seen photos of one of my great-granmothers when she was already very old. It's so cool to see this one of yours when she was young. One great-grandmother came to this country in the 1870s, the other never made it out of eastern europe.
Beautiful photograph! That it has survived all this time is fantastic!
When you think that photography was only about 50 years old when it was taken...
alan
a beautiful steel magnolia...so lovely...wow...
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