Do you have a family pic that's 60 years old or older?

[Bertha Venation]

This is my grandmother and her parents and siblings. My grandma, Florence, is in the front on the right.

[annabanana]

1. Four generations - Grandma's the little girl.

[Bertha Venation]

3. that's awesome, anna

:thumbsup:

[annabanana]

4. I might have one of the teacups in a closet somewhere...

Everything else is scattered to the times.

[Sequoia]

42. How lovely.

Peaceful...tea and sewing.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. I have lots, this one is the coolest, IMHO

1920 Reunion parade of the WWI 30th "Hickory" Division. The old CSA vet out front is my great-great Grandfather, Noah L. Frady.
His son-in-law is the guy at left in the white suit in the rounded doorway. His son, my late grandfather, Max Rhodes is one of the kids running alongside their grandfather.
This was taken on Patton Ave in Asheville, NC facing east... you can see the Vance Memorial in the background.

[lizziegrace]

11. What a great photo!

:thumbsup:

BTW, Asheville is one of my favorite places.

[Captain Hilts]

23. Man, that IS cool! nt

[Sequoia]

43. Neat-o !! Asheville

My childhood stomping grounds. Hey, you know, the Asheville Citizen Times posts old photos such as these and are always requesting them.

[Left Is Write]

5. That's a great picture!

There are lots of family pictures in my mother's possession - many more than 100 years old. I don't have any here, though.

[lizziegrace]

6. The Greek Mafia

My father's father, his parents and extended family at my great-aunt's wedding. My Papoo had 5 sisters.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. earliest known photo of my family

[lizziegrace]

9. Everyone's a comedian

:P


I'll edit...

[Skittles]

7. my mum and grandparents, 1939

[crim son]

10. You can really see the family resemblance in that crowd.

Awesome picture! I have almost all the old family photos and paintings but the only one I've scanned is below, and I've posted it before. I believe this is my great grandfather on my father's side, as a child:

[MajorChode]

12. My Great-Great Grandpappy

[Ptah]

13. From 1917, here are my father's parents.

The youngest woman and the happy gentleman on your right.

[grasswire]

50. where was this? (eom)

[mainegreen]

14. I've got one 150 years old of my great-great-great-etc Dutch Grandma in full on Dutch clothes.

With wooden shoes too.

She looks REALLY FUCKING STERN.

In fact every single one of my the pre-1900 pictures I have of Dutch ancestors looks like they sticks up their arses.

Or maybe 140 years old.
Really old.

She was dead before the 1880s

[Muttocracy]

24. maybe 'cause they had to sit still a long time for the photos?

I don't even know if that's true but I heard that about old photography.

[Love Bug]

63. That is true

Film from that time was real slow to expose so subjects had to sit still for a good minute or more.

[justabob]

15. grandad somewhere in the pacific theater

I have been told the photo was taken on Guam, but I cannot be sure.... some beach in the pacific theater during WWII

[nickinSTL]

16. my parents have all the pics...

if I were motivated enough, I could scan some images from my dad's book - he wrote a book on our family genealogy - there are lots of old family pics...but, I'm not that motivated :evilgrin:

Kind of interesting to look at the old pics, though. Through the pics, I've figured out where my jaw comes from (my dad's great-grandmother, who was from Germany) and the weird, sort of flat shape to my face is the same as my mom's great-uncle, who was Norwegian...but I suspect with some Sami ancestry we don't actually have evidence of.

[baldguy]

17. My grandfather's mother

Taken in 1896 on the eve of her wedding.

[TZ]

18. I wish I knew where it was but

There's one of an unknown female family member that is probably 120 yrs old...but we don't know for sure because the writing on it is in Russian. And since my family came to the US in the late 1890's .....

[rurallib]

19. Somewhere in this mess we have pics of my dad as a tot in Albuquerque

NM in 1917. His parents moved there because of TB. They died shortly after that. Albuquerque was a very small town then. Most of the pics are native Americans who lived there.
Lord knows where they are stored. We're still moving in after 30 years.

[madinmaryland]

20. I have a picture of the town founders which includes my gg-grandfather and my gg-grandmother

from a small town in west central pa. It's actually embedded in a google.book. It is from 1904, when they were near 60. I'm a little too tired to try and link it, as it is on my flash drive.

It's really kind of neat finding other people in your family, even if they are are distant relatives.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. My maternal grandparents ............

This photo is about a hundred years old. I never knew them, but I am told she was a healer of sorts, used plants like medicines, and he was a coal miner, the nicest man in the world. When my father began dating my mother - she had a reputation for ditching the boys who all wanted to go out with the prettiest girl in town - he told her "Don't send this one away. He's nice."

I guess I owe my grandfather a lot..............

[Kali]

26. wow part of it is the height difference but she looks so young

what was the age difference? Some marriages in those days would be fodder for hugh DU flamewars:P

[Tangerine LaBamba]

30. Isn't that creepy?

The difference in their ages wasn't all that much - maybe five years - and I believe she was fifteen when they married. I never saw this photo until a few years ago, and I flipped. One of their daughters was a dead ringer for her mother, the bride. I couldn't believe that wasn't my Aunt Francie as a child. But, no, it is my grandmother.

Oh, this is the stuff that would set DU on fire for days, I know. I hesitated before posting it, but it's such a unique thing, I had to.

They were very respectable people, although they do look a bit like circus folks, don't you think?

[Love Bug]

64. Are you sure that's a wedding pic?

I know it's nervy of me to question your family, but that looks like a First Communion photo. If it were a wedding photo from 1909 or so, her skirt would be much longer. Only girls wore such short skirts in those days. Perhaps it's your grandmother and her father?

[Genevieve]

68. Oh, i just posted the same thing about the dress,

[dugaresa]

31. and your sure that isn't a first holy communion pic?

geez the girl looks so young!! Doesn't look much older than 10 or 11.

[Genevieve]

66. that's what it looks like to me.

like a father and daughter pic - first holy communion.
The dress also looks more like a communion dress
than a wedding dress of 100 years ago.
And she does look to be about 10nyears old,

[texanwitch]

36. One of my Grandmothers was married at 15, she was born in 1896.

It was common back then for girls to marry young.

Her husband my Grandfather was 25 or so, he was a good catch.

He had land.

My Grandmother looked a lot older then 15, she could have passed for 20.

[Barack_America]

22. My great-great-grandmother and family c.1895

My gg-grandmother is the woman standing second from the left.

What freaks me out is how similar I look to the woman standing on the right. It's eerie.

[Arugula Latte]

46. Look how tiny her waist is!

She's probably corseted, but, still ... :wow:

[Kali]

25. I have a bunch but not many scanned

this is from 1918 - the woman in the chair is my Great Great Grandmother, the Man to her right in the vest with the stain on his shoulder is my Great Grandfather. This was taken at the annual picnic held by the community/family for her birthday in July. The location is now exit 318 on I-10. (most of the rocks are still there - heh)

My mother remembered the picnics (in the 30's 40's still going on - they made potato salad in big tin washtubs, and had a rodeo with the fence comprised of everybody's cars parked in a big circle. I have a picture of that too, but not scanned.

edit to actually post the picture :crazy:

[erinlough]

27. My father is the first on the left in 1924

[Sequoia]

44. Cute little young-uns.

[friedgreentomatoes]

52. What a pretty lady! n/t

[buzzard]

28. My mother.n/t

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[Ptah]

29. What a collection you have, Bertha

Bertha Venation's grandmother and family

annabanana's Four generations - Grandma's the little girl.

WannaJumpMyScooters 1920 Reunion Parade

lizziegrace's Greek Mafia

Skittles' mum and grandparents

crim son's great grandfather

MajorChode's Great-Great Grandpappy

justabob's grandad

baldguy's grandfather's mother

Tangerine LaBamba's maternal grandparents

Barack_America's great-great-grandmother

Kali's bunch

erinlough's father

buzzard's mother

[seemunkee]

32. That is a great photo, I love the background

My great grandpa on the far right


My grandpa

My uncle read this at my grandfather's funeral. It's a bit rambling like Grandpa Simpson but I love it

just received my (Peoria) Journal Star papers as of December 8th (1985). The article on the far North really interesting.
The article on John Eskildsen brought back many memories. I was raised on an 80 acre farm which was located on the east side of 80 adjacent to the Mt. Hawley Motel and on the west side of Route 88. I used to hunt squirrels in this area and could hear John playing before sun up. Would stop and talk to him. I even played his violin which inspired me at a later time to take violin lessons for nine years. My teacher was Reynolds, if I remember right. However, I lost my left ring finger in 1925 which ended my playing. An 80 acre farm belonging to the Giles family was sold in 1922 to the Mt. Hawley Country Club for $12,000. I can still hear my mother say it was too much! Picture Ridge Road was a part of my Uncle George's property.
Our home was across the 88 Road from the apartment complex on the east side. There were nine of us children, 5 boys and 4 girls. I still have one sister living. She is Mildred Crabtree who resides in the Proctor Home. We fnally got a phone, the last one on a 12-party line.
In 1917 my father had a heart attack. Prior to that time we did the farming and picked milk up from other farmers in the area and took it to the Martostergarde Plant on Globe Street. He would stop at Thomas and Clark Cookie factory and pick up a wagon load of day-old cookies, then he would stop on his way home at the Keller School and the teacher would let the kids out to fill their dinner buckets with cookies. After his heart attack my brother Joe attended to the farming, but he was kicked in the face by a horse in 1918 and died 4 days later. I was 14 years old so it was up to me to tend to the farm. I plowed with a single blade plow with a team of horses, also disked it and harrowed it and planted it. I was always late getting to school as the farming had to be taken care of, and the harvest in the fall finished. In the winter I would get up at 5 a.m., milk eleven cows by hand, then go to the house and eat a regular farm breakfast, clean up and walk 2 miles to the Keller school.
I can remember many of the families in the area....the Zidons, Pasnicks, Frys, the Hogans, the Doerings, Bibls, Holmes. A single road was paved from Vonachen's Junction to the road at Alta. When younger I used to drive a cart with one horse to take water to the men shucking the wheat and oats...also at thrashing time. In those days everyone raised their own vegetables and canned them in the basement and stored carrots, beets, and turnips buried in dirt. Onions and potatoes were also kept in the basement for winter use. We would butcher hogs in the late fall...and a veal. We had chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys.. there was wild turkeys in the woods. We would put milk in large pans to cool and curn our own butter. Mother always baked on Fridays...8 loaves of bread plus 4 coffee cakes. We and all the people in the area were self-supporing, which the farmer do not do today.
There was a Sunday school at the Keller School. Mother would get us ready. I wore a Buster Brown outfit and shoes which almost killed me as I was barefoot most of the summer. When it was cold in the winter we wore felt boots and long johns. The snow early in winter would drift over the fences and freeze and we would walk over the fences.

After all the crops were in in the fall, the men would bring the wagon down Popplet Hollow Road to Mossville and fish. At noon the women would go down and cook the fish with all the trimmings. We would take 10 gallon cans of milk to the Alta Cheese factory. On the way back home we would drive rather fast and pretend we were Barney Ofield.

Guy T. Yates -
Typed from notes found after his death - read by his son David at his funeral 3/13/1986

[Arugula Latte]

48. That is amazing ...

Wow, what a different kind of life. Those people were TOUGH. And I always think about how they didn't have the types of synthetic fibers we have today for warmth. I'm such a cold wimp -- I get chilled to the bone at my son's evening spring baseball games, and that's when I'm layered up and in a sleeping bag! Lol. I don't think I'd have made it through, back in the day. :)

[Aristus]

33. This pic is my grandfather in his Coast Guard uniform during World War II.

Papa:



Even as a kid, I though he was as handsome as a movie star in this photo. My father confirmed for me that Papa was quite the ladies' man.

[hunter]

34. This is my grandma.

The eighteenth ammendment? Huh? This is Hollywood, we never heard of it.

[seaker]

35. I love this thread

:grouphug:

[Drunken Irishman]

37. Not a family photo, but this is Delia Sheridan Cassidy, my great-great grandmother.

She looks just like my mom.



This probably taken after they arrived from Ireland.

[yellowdogintexas]

38. coming back to this one later tonight. nt

[yellowdogintexas]

58. my dad, in his WWII soldier outfit

[Arkansas Granny]

39. Yes. My baby pictures are over 60 years old.

I don't have any to post right now, but I have some family pictures from the early 1900's.

[JitterbugPerfume]

40. There are pictures of ME

that are over 60 yr old!

[bikebloke]

41. I was told this was my grandmother.

Only it later occurred to me that it's her sister. A sociopathic sibling, who was storing the family relics for my father, since he figured she owed him due playing a free cash machine, trashed into them.

[auntAgonist]

45. my mother is on the left

my aunt Isabella's wedding. She died when I was a baby.

[HamdenRice]

47. About 90 years old -- Portrait of an Ex-Slave, my Great-Grandfather

Actually, the photograph is only 30 years old. As you can see, it's a photo of a photo that, wherever it is now, would be just about 90 years old. I was visiting my grandfather and asked to make a copy of an photo he kept on his wall. So let's say the image is about 90 years old.

The man seated is my great grandfather who ran away from slavery in Virginia to come to Brooklyn. He had been born in 1853. I think the family oral history must have gotten garbled, and I think what happened was that he ran away during the Civil War, when he would have been a teenager, as Grant and Lee rampaged across Virginia (where he was a slave), and most slaves were able to basically walk away.

The man immediately to the right of the seated man was my grandfather.

[Love Bug]

67. Wow -- that is amazing

I take it the fellows with him are his sons?

[Rambis]

49. Reunion 1928

[Silver Swan]

51. Circa 1886

My great-grandparents and my grandfather.

[enlightenment]

53. I have one taken of my 4xgrandmother when she was 90 or 91

in 1874/75. She was born in 1784.

eta: that would make it 134/135 years old, I guess.

[Rosie1223]

54. My grandmother in the Roaring 20's

Just before she was married in 1927.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

55. Here's one of a Dutch g.g.g.g.g. grandfather from the 1700s

He was a rabbi in Amsterdam, and this portrait's in the Jewish History Museum there.

[ChickMagic]

56. Yes, but I don't have it with me

Anyway, it's HUGE!!!! I won it at a family reunion and it's hanging on my wall at home. I don't have a big enough scanner for it, but I suppose I could scan it in sections and composite it. It includes my Uncle Brice who got left at at a covered wagon stop and was forgotten for 3 days. He grew up to be a Brigadier General.

I do have one of my mother's side of the family I can bring up here and scan and you'll think it's a joke. Really. But it's not. I'll bring it tomorrow (if I can remember with my addled brain).

Dang it! I can't spell!!!!More evidence of addledosis.

[Burma Jones]

57. Here's a few......

My Great Great Grandparents


My Paternal Grandmother (1910 - 1995)


My Paternal Grandmother again (on the right)


My Paternal Grandfather (1907 - 1987) and my Dad


Another set of Great Great Grandparents (they look friendlier)

[MrScorpio]

59. My Great Grandmother and my Great Uncle Joe

[Love Bug]

65. Your uncle was Joe Louis? How cool is that!

[TK421]

60. If I posted those, it would probably slow DU down a great deal...the family is so massive

and I'm sure there is a limit, but I'll have to get pictures from my sister. She is the keeper of all of the family pictures. I don't have any

thanks for posting this!

[blaze]

61. What a great thread!!

Hope we can keep this kicked for more photos!!

(Don't have any to share :( )

[canoeist52]

62. my grandmother on her honeymoon

my grandmother on her honeymoon



my grandmother at 5 yrs old in 1905



My great grandmother

[bluesbassman]

69. Here's a couple I dug up.

My mom's 3rd grade class picture. She's the third from the left, top row.


My grandfather on his "West Texas Mule".