I Love Old Photographs...

[rogerballard]

My Dad, 16 years old in 1933. He was not a gangster. Love the frame.

[Rhiannon12866]

1. That's beautiful! My grandmother had photos in lovely frames on her dresser

Including her wedding photo which wasn't really in a frame, it was a photo on an oval that stood up. And they weren't wealthy, they were both immigrants from Poland. My mother has it and the photo has kind of separated from the backing after all this time, I should see if it can be repaired. Is that the original Felix? Handsome young man!

[rogerballard]

2. That is the original Felix...

My dear Godmother, Yula Mae Dobski, I will never, ever forget her. She always gave me a gift.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. You're so lucky to have it!

Was your Godmother Polish? Both my maternal grandparents emigrated from different areas of Poland in the last century - they were both still in their teens - and eventually met here and married. Polish was my mother's first language.

[rogerballard]

7. My Godmother was polish...

Dobski...

[Rhiannon12866]

8. That's what I figured!

My grandmother was the eldest in her family. She came here at 15 and never returned home. But for her entire life she sent money and things like clothing back to her family in Poland.

[montana_hazeleyes]

3. I love old photos too.

Very handsome young man.

[pansypoo53219]

4. i started collecting old b/w photos from estate sales. i have quite a collection now.

then i got a few vintage color pics accidentally found in an old thesaurus i bought, so i grabbed a few old color pics. i call them saved moments, saved time. my uncle's wife was gonna pitch her families pics. i saved all the old ones.

[rogerballard]

6. Share, one of your favorites... N/T

[CaptainTruth]

9. Awesome! What a handsome fellow. And I love the art deco patterns.

I have some beautiful pics of my mom & dad ... my favorite is dad looking sharp in his army uniform (on 2 weeks leave, from WWII) with my mom as a senior in high school. Thankfully they're still with us, dad is 96 now, mom is 93, & May will be their 75th wedding anniversary.

Wow, 75 years married. It's hard for me to even comprehend that, & I love them both more than words can say. 😎

[rogerballard]

10. Share one...

That is so cool ! 75 years is a long, long time. My Dad would be 101 !

[Cryptoad]

11. I love those old photos too- my Grand father 1898

[rogerballard]

12. Amazing...

Guns, at the ready...

[IrishEyes]

13. I have a photograph of my great grandfather in his police uniform around 1900.

While researching my ancestry, I found a picture online of my great grandmother with her seven sisters and my great great grandmother. It is labelled with everyone's names. Everyone had an old fashioned name like Esther, Prudence and Mabel. Both of these people died in the 1930s.

[hibbing]

14. Cool

I have some from my grandfather in WWI and after my father died I found one of him from one of our vacations, for some reason it resonates with me so deeply, he looks so relaxed and so young.

Peace

[csziggy]

15. Here is one my sister titled "Baby Daddy" - my Dad as a toddler

About 1924. Scanned from a negative we found among a whole stash of negative Dad had stored away.

[rogerballard]

18. Oh my, that is a great photo...

of your Dad ! Thank you for sharing. One of my Aunts passed this picture along to me, I am so lucky to have it. My Mom, 1923. I figure around 2-3 months old.

[csziggy]

19. That is adorable!

We don't have as many photos of my Mom as of my Dad since her family was not as well off and mostly lived in rural Alabama. I wish I had one of her as an infant but we do have her school photos.

Dad's father was a camera buff and we have pictures from when he was in college at the Michigan School of Mining, when he was working in New Orleans after college (levee breaches and rebuilding levees), when he was in the Army Corp of Engineers in WWI (in France), and tons of pics of Dad and his brother as kids. Of course, grandfather is not in most of those since he was taking the pictures!

[Aristus]

16. I love them, too. I enjoy looking past the old fashioned clothing, the hats, and the hairstyles,

and just looking at the faces. Seeing the human beings that they were. It brings it home that they were not just old, mouldering, black-and-white photographs. But people. Real people.

He was a handsome man.

Put a backwards baseball cap and a sports jersey on him, and it's like he could be from today...

[hunter]

17. I collect photos I find in thrift and antique stores.

I've got some really old photos, tintypes and such.

It sometimes makes me wonder how the photos got lost, separated from their families.

Here's one of the newer photos in my collection of found photos:



The back of the photo is dated 1941, and from other photos I found with it, some of the same women in uniform, I determined they were Army Nurses.

One can't help but wonder how they fared in the war.

[csziggy]

20. My sister buys old photo albums

Some are for me to use to store our family's old photos rather than for the pictures. I use the big scrapbook type albums to store the negatives and prints - and make "contact sheets" with PhotoShop to quickly see what is in each pocket

One album was filled with old photos from the 1950s to about mid-1970s. Lots of first names, no dates, no surnames. No way to find the family whose memories they hold.

I would bet that many of the old photos and albums belonged to people who have passed, whose remaining relatives just don't care to keep any mementos. It's sad.

Your Army Nurse photo reminds me of some of my Mom's photos from her time in the Navy Nurses. Mostly while she was in California, stationed at Rancho Santa Marguerita now known as Camp Pendleton.