Old photographs: Remembering the past

[AlbertP]

Photography's greatest gift to us may be in that it allows us to look back on the past with more than memories or words. Let's use this thread to dredge up some old photos with character. I'm not talking about five years or 10 years ago. I'm talking memories of bygone times...the photos you have in your shoebox. How about it?

[photosbymorgan2]

OK,

Here is my submission. This is my Grandmother (deceased) when she was a little girl. She is sitting on the tricycle that she won in a contest.

[ohenry]

Here I was at age 9 (on the right)...Birmingham Alabama 1961

[Kevin Barrett]

Well that's me a little over seventeen years ago. Taken by my wife with a Canon T90 and Tamron 28-135 Zoom lens.

[Paul Shields]

This is a picture of my grandmother taken in Liverpool, just before the 2nd world war. Unfortunately she was not very well and didn't live much longer.

[dc2]

I will see what I can find in my old shoe box but in the mean time its a great idear and think it maybe worthy of its own corner. Hope so
Well thought of AlbertP

[edawn]

This a fun thread! I love to see old photos. Here's one of my grandma (now in heaven) at about the age of 2 (around 1919?).

Elaine

[ellette]

Well Elaine, it is easy to see where your hair came from!

These are great pictures. I would love to share some, I'll have to gry to find them, but it will be quite a while, too much stuff, too little time and energy to get to it. : :-[

Sara

[Uncle Frank]

One of my favorites is this photo I took of my girlfriend in 1970.*



We married the following year, and I used the self timer on my Minolta SR-101 to take this picture on our wedding day.



But my favorite is this photo of my daughter, taken 29 years ago.

[Patzt]

This is my Granddad who emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1899 and this was taken before he left Scotland!

This photo is printed on tin or some kind of metal and scanned from that.

[Patzt]

And this is my Dad when he was courting my Mum in the late 1920's

(Poor quality photo but was rescued from a flooded basement many years ago)

[deluco]

I gotta say, this is an incredibly moving thread. I wish I had photos of my grandparents. I don't remember them. They passed away when I was very small. Actually, I'm still small, but you know what I mean.

[Paul Shields]

Yes, it is an interesting thread, and well done to AlbertP for coming up with it. Maybe one day in the future shots of me or you will be posted in a 'remembering the past' thread - just one facet of the power of photography in capturing memories.

[deluco]

By the way, you can really improve some of these photos you're scanning using something like Photoshop. Can get rid of the creases, etc. The labs will also print true black and white now. (digital)

[Patzt]

Originally Posted by Jim DeLuco

By the way, you can really improve some of these photos you're scanning using something like Photoshop.* Can get rid of the creases, etc.* The labs will also print true black and white now. (digital)

Yes, I plan on doing some work on my old ones. But this will be done when I have some free time. LOL Actually, my brother is doing a lot of photo restoration work with the family photos so I might just let him do it. HAHAHA! I have Paint Shop Pro and like it a lot.

I'm enjoying this thread a lot too.

[kris10]

This is a photo of my grandpa from his military days.* He flew B-17 bombers (I think that's what they are called... :-\) and I later found out that he had been a POW after getting shot down over enemy territory.* I thought it was neat to hear him tell us about it.

[CamelToe]

An image of my grandmother on my mothers side, (I'm Japanese/Scottish American) Miyoko Iwase. Before her tragic death in 1954 at the young age of 39 she gave birth to 8 children and now has 42 or so grandchildren. She's much loved and missed...



...and a pic of the family after the funeral (my mother was only about 6 at the time)

[Patzt]

CamelToe, what an emotive photo!

It's so nice to see your grandmother's photo and the school photo. I can't imagine 42 grandchildren. I really enjoy these old ones.

Do you have any more?

[Patzt]

Jared, how precious a photo is that!* Just look at those gorgeous gowns on the girls! What work and what love went into the stitches! I also do a lot of sewing and I sure appreciate the hard work that your grandparents' family accomplished.

Thanks so much for sharing with us.* I must look up some more as I also think that this is one of the nicest topics.

[Mr. Pickles]

Some nice photos. I don't know if I have any from that long ago. I think my sister does, so I'll have to steal some of them. I like how these folks were all dressed up too, but a lot of them were dressed similar to that in their daily life. I mean like the old cowboys. Ever really think about all the clothes they wore? And how now we have people that wear half a shirt, or them cargo pants, no belt so they can ride down keeping the butt cool, and all that. THere are people now who turn the AC on when it is 75.