My mother has been redoing the floor to ceiling bulletin board in her kitchen - rearranging photos, deaccessioning some, adding others. It's a work in progress, a place to give family photos - old and new - a place to shine. The grandchildren love it: Look, there's me as a baby! In a pile awaiting pinning is this photo of herself with the family dog, taken in 1937. At the time, my mother was just shy of 2 years old, and the scottie in the picture appears to be bigger than she is. The dog, named Sandy, may or may not be the dog that once bit my mother on the face, scarring her for life - or so she says.
Also in the waiting stack is this charming, slightly blurry photo of her - same vintage - walking across the grass with a paper umbrella. Where was she going? What's she holding in her other hand? If I didn't know better - hey, 1937 - I'd think she was holding a telephone to her ear.
17 February 2008
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Those pictures are absolutely priceless. I love them!
How wonderful!
it seems unusual to me that a photo like that (the naked bum in the backyard) would be taken in 1937. i know i will miss the sight of MQ's little naked bum.
Those photos are so charming. And yes, her posture in the umbrella one does remind me of someone with phone to ear.
Those are both incredibly charming photos! I love the magic of old pictures, I really do.
those are so so precious!
Magpie - THOSE are truly amazing.
I just adore old photos. There is something so magical, beautiful, haunting and lovely about them.
These are wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
those are great photos!
i have one of my dad when he was close to 1 [holding onto a chair and about to take off toddling], looking for all the world like most of his kids and grandkids at the same age.
Lovely pictures.
What beautiful pictures!
My kiddo looks so much like me that sometimes she insists that childhood photos of me are actually of her. This wouldn't be so strange if I wasn't so much older than her in these pictures.
-andi
Absolutely fab.
I love old photos like this one. You're so lucky to have it.
I love old photos like this one. You're so lucky to have it.
It breaks my heart a little bit to think of all of those thousands of years of little beautiful children, beloved and forgotten to time. Such sweet pictures.
ah, face-biting terriers. had one of them myself.
this was a good reminder that I wanted to go over to my parents' and borrow the photo album for a scanning session.
Wow, what fantastic photos!
What great pictures!
So sweet, both of those.
You know, we gave my grandmother a digital photo frame for her 80th. So I was thinking, since grandkids love it, reproducing the board in each of their houses isn't too bad with some digital frames and a judicious application of a scanner. Which you clearly have already started on. :)
It awes me how much kids enjoy seeing pictures from the past, especially those of their grandparents who seem even further removed from ever being children.
I love these pictures. Thanks for sharing them.
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