My grandparents wedding pic. Hand painted over B&W from 1930.

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1. Do you think she actually had leaf images on her dress..

or that they were painted on!

I love old photos like this. The brides seem to alway have those long trains which they arranged flowing at their feet in the studio pictures.

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2. The leaves were on her dress. Thats what Ma always told me.

She made the dress herself. This was in 1930, the great depression, and material may have been scarce or expensive.

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3. Here's a 140 year old Bean Pot.

From my Irish side of the family. I was told that it came over during the potato famine.

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4. Here is my parents' wedding photo..

I've only seen it in sepia tones, altho my mother may have had a larger one that was hand painted. One of her sisters wore the dress after she did at her own wedding.



This is my favorite old family photo. It's a picture of my favorite aunt, I assume on her first Communion day, probably around 1920 or so.They emigrated from the Balkans six months before WW1 broke out, or otherwise I wouldn't be here, since I'm sure my GF would have been conscripted into the Kaiser's army had they stayed. My sister & I had the photo professionally restored several years ago, since she was our favorite relative.She died in the 1980's.

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5. These are faboulous pictures you guys have posted.

This is a picture of my grandfather as a child, top Center, and his siblings. He died before my dad turned a year old when he was 29. I have no adult pictures of him and I don't believe my father ever saw a picture of his father. I got this after my fathers death.

This was about taken about 1910.

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8. LOL It looks like one of their parents was behind the photographer..

yelling look this way!

We have very few photos of my grandparents on either side.
Here is my father's family. He's the little guy with the 'deer in the headlights' look in the middle - he grew up to be pretty good looking I think - and Bonnie is the girl in the communion photo.George is my father's best man in their wedding photo.

Winifred tragically died in her late twenties from pneumonia while 8 1/2 months pregnant. No EMS back then, unfortunately.

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9. great picture. Too bad about Winnifred.

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6. what a treasure those wedding pics are!

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7. Here's my old picture.

The boy is my dad, the baby is my uncle Tim, and the woman is an aunt of my dad's. This is at Tim's christening circa 1955.

There also exists a picture of some ancestors of mine from the mid 1800's! But I don't have it on my computer.

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10. bow tie and all. :)

Okay found out:

When was photography invented?On a summer day in 1827, it took eight hours for Joseph Nicéphore Niépce to obtain the first fixed image. About the same time a fellow Frenchman, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre was experimenting to find a way to capture an image, but it would take another dozen years before he was able to reduce the exposure time to less than 30 minutes and keep the image from disappearing… ushering in the age of modern photography.

Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, inventor of the first practical process of photography, was born near Paris, France on November 18, 1789. A professional scene painter for the opera, Daguerre began experimenting with the effects of light upon translucent paintings in the 1820s. In 1829, he formed a partnership with Joseph Nicéphore Niépce to improve the process Niépce had developed to take the first permanent photograph in 1826-1827. Niépce died in 1833.

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11. There were a few other successes before Daguerre..

including some by Henry Fox Talbot a few years earlier. He eventually patented a process called the 'calotype'.

http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/hillandadamson/calo.html

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12. If you have very old family photos, and your parents are still alive..

you should ask them to identify who the people are on the backs of the photos! I've found that I have quite a few interesting photos without any clue of who the people in them are. On my dad's side, there is only one remaining relative in his generation, who now has alzheimers.