Old Photographs from the 1900s

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His tilted hat and sailor shirt.

Somebody's great great grandfather.

How I would love such a photo of mine.

 

 

 

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A few tattered notebook pages found in a box with some mix-matched trinkets. Photographs are plenty at the French brocantes so I shouldn't be surprised by them any more than seeing all the discarded antiques, but I am. Old photographs that were most likely stored and left upstairs in the attic or on the top of a closet shelf. Families come and go and with it, some things were left behind or were displaced after the war.

 

 

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The pages contain various sizes of black and white photos of one family over several years in starting in 1907.

 

 

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This photo feels like a painting. I love the shadows playing on the clothes.

Renoir!

 

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A young woman in a beret runs behinds a horse-drawn carriage. A trunk sits on top of the carriage as someone leans out to say good-bye. The note below reads, "1906 Leaving for England."

 

 

 

 



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8 responses to “Old Photographs from the 1900s”

  1. I wonder if it would be worth the effort to ty via Ancestry or another genealogy site, to locate descendants of the family. I know of one lady who found a quilt and after tracking someone down via a name sewn on the quilt was told it had been their grandfather’s quilt and mistakenly been thrown out. They were delighted to get it back!

  2. What a wonderful story, Martina!

  3. Chrisophe

    Corey (et. al.), I don’t know whether you are aware of this Facebook page but there are some really wonderful photos that have been posted: https://www.facebook.com/bsqtchris/

  4. One of my favorite posts; I just love old French photos, especially weddings!

  5. Iyes….the pictures are great…the two women definitely look like a painting… The last one is fantastic….Leaving for England! This picture looks like a great cover for a book about just that!

  6. I just spent over a year scanning thousands of photos from my 97 year old mother’s closet. I sent copies on thumb drives to all my ten brothers and sisters. I also am taking the hard copies and storing them in my closet when Mom has left us. I did this exactly because of what you are showing here. I would go to flea markets and see all these family photos and wonder why nobody cared to keep them.

  7. Thank you for rescuing these precious photos and sharing them with us! Oh, what a wonderful fictional story you could write about this family. Or, as Martina suggested, find the family if there’s a last name. I too, immediately thought of a Renoir painting of the sisters!

  8. Debra Paper

    This are haunting . . .especially the mother and child photo. Sad the families lost these pictures.

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