My favorite portrait of my grandmother taken sometime in the 1960s by my granddad. Jane Turner, 1919-2015. She was a schoolteacher and a dance instructor. She was known to walk on her hands around the house. She celebrated her 90th birthday by choreographing and performing a tap dance routine in her assisted living center’s talent […]
This is my great grandmother Amanda Louise Creach Hunter in the 1910s. She was 14 when this portrait was taken. Louise understood pain and loss. I can see it in her eyes. She was born in 1903 to a prominent family outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Her mother was diagnosed with TB. She called seven-year-old Louise […]
Vintage vibes aren’t limited to Throwback Thursdays. Since nostalgia never goes out of style, everyone enjoys a daily dose of vintage photography! From abandoned Polaroids found in thrift stores to old family pictures unearthed during holiday gatherings, there’s a bevy of vintage photographs just waiting to be discovered. Here are three instagram feeds to follow […]
We all love a good mystery. But when it comes to identifying and preserving vintage family photos, one little mystery can consume us for weeks or months! Have you ever discovered an old family photo and wondered, “who’s this guy and how’s he related to me?” That’s a common mystery for families when working on […]
Caption: She was an explorer, a hunter of the strange and wonderful. There were times when her adventures were fewer and farther between, but during the summer of 1939, she couldn’t stop moving. Everyone knows the old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words.” And it’s popular because it’s true! When we look at […]
1977. Me and @portraitsounds with our great-grandmother “Omi” in Jerusalem. We didn’t speak a word of Hungarian, she didn’t speak a word of Hebrew, but it didn’t matter. My great-grandma raised my mom while both of her parents worked. In her nineties, Omi was still well enough to help my mom when my brother was […]
“In the end, we’ll all become stories.” – Margaret Atwood From left to right: my father (the nerd) my grandfather, grandmother, and aunt. My uncle took the photo at their cabin. I had a couple photographers in my family, so I have some really good photos from as late as 1860’s. But of all the […]
What memories make you proud of your family? This photograph of my late Grandma and my cousin was taken in 1973 in a small town called Greytown in South Africa, where my father and his four siblings were born and raised. My Grandma was a single mother who worked at a boarding school laundromat until […]
This is my great-grandpa taking a selfie, circa 1910. It probably was one of the first in California! 🙂 My great-grandpa’s name was Heber Clewett Senior and he grew up to serve in WWI. ~shared by @stephanie.m.collins View on Instagram →
Have you ever stumbled across a box of vintage photos at a flea market or antique shop and wondered, “Who were these people? What kinds of lives did they live? What were their stories?” Well, we have too! That’s why we think you’ll love these two projects featuring found photos that will inspire you to […]
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