Who are these children? I have no idea...
While exploring a re-sale shop last week end, I came across the photo.
I picked it up and saw that it was $8.95...a little pricey for me, especially for someone I didn't know.
The longer I was in the store, the more I thought about their sweet little faces. I just couldn't leave them behind.
She is a precocious sweetheart with natural blonde hair, who, today, is probably in her 90's.
Look at how he is posed with folded hands...such a gentleman at an early age, if only for the few minutes of the photo.
So, I bought the photo and am now looking for the right frame. Who knows, maybe someone will see it on my blog and recognize the family.
The photographer was Fred Jorns from Girard Illinois. The clothes tell me it was probably taken the early part of the 1900's.
Have you ever been tempted to purchase a vintage photo?
I'm wondering how it traveled all the way to Texas from Illinois.
Meggie Mac
I was gripped by the haunting eyes of the other boy standing in back. They are winsome children.
ReplyDeleteI also thought about the other boy. He must be the eldest. The three younger ones look alike, everything from hair color to the shape of their facial features. I wonder if he might have a different mother.
DeleteIntriguing it is indeed ! If only photos could speak ... like they do in Harry Potter movies :)
ReplyDeleteThe photo actually did speak to me....I think that is why I brought it home.
DeleteI couldn't have left it either. The little blonde girl with curls is adorable! Jx
ReplyDeleteI thought I needed to claim this family and place it in a proper frame. Love your latest post....some very beautiful photos.
DeleteEven the BABY has her hands clasped like all the other children. And, honestly, doesn't the little girl - with those eyes, that tilt of her head, here expression - look like Bette Davis? The boy in front looks so thoughtful and serious. I, too, would have brought them home, too!
ReplyDeletethe hubby loves antique shopping so i c lots of similar photos .... not purchased one as of yet though. so fun. ( :
ReplyDeleteI have often perused antique shops and stopped to go through vintage photographs. Like you, they intrigue me and I imagine the story that goes with the photo that makes me smile. Wouldn't it be remarkable if someone did recognize this on you blog...stranger things have happened, XOXO
ReplyDeleteOh, Meggie - it always makes me SO sad to see old photographs in antique shops. I always wonder how they got separated from their families...
ReplyDeleteAh 8.95 is too much for me. I collect old photos and hope to reunite them with family on my Forgotten Old Photos Blog. This one is charming, it is a Cabinet Card from around 1900, perhaps a bit before that. Cabinet Cards traveled well and some even came in special envelopes to mail. It was one way for relatives to keep in touch. So sad that someone didn't mark it on the back:(
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