|
Picture Stories
|
We have found that the best part of researching our family history is the pictures, that is pretty much where the name for this website came from. Even when we are searching for dry dates and records, just seeing an image of the actual record makes it more interesting for us.
We have noticed that our relatives will let us go on longer about our "finds" if we have pictures to show them.
But most of all, when ever we are trying to tell a story, if we can find an illustration, it is so much easier, or even if we can't think of a story to tell, looking at a picture will make us think of one.
|
|
Tuesday, 20 July 2010 04:55 |
|
This festival brings together all of our favorite past-times, we love to travel and our favorite mode is by train, we just love the old stations, and my wife loves postcards. She likes to jump off the train at stops and run into the station to mail postcards and snap a picture of the station while shes in there, yes, we have had some close calls. In Sacramento once, I had the conductor....Read more...
|
|
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 July 2010 16:25 )
|
|
Monday, 31 May 2010 00:00 |
|
Memorial Day 2010 Update:
It's already May 31st! Where is the time going? I'm way behind on this page...but all our websites were invaded a couple months back and we are slowly getting them back online. I have added only a few new pictures to the page this Memorial Day. Recently I was given a picture....
To see our Military Remembrance Page with this years changes: "Click Here"
|
|
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 July 2010 12:43 )
|
|
Sunday, 30 August 2009 15:14 |
|
The theme of Postcardy's August Scavenger Hunt is "My Funniest Postcards", this one was the funniest one I found in our collection, Postcardy's are much funnier.
(Tichnor linen)
Click on pictures to enlarge
I guess to a youngun' like me, it seems "funny" that my elders could be risque.This postcard was written to my Great Aunt Iva Pringle Howell in 1950? (the postmark is hard to read)
In 1950 she would have been 55 years old and had been married to her childhood "Sweetie Pie" for 32 years. I wonder who sent this, I think a girl friend.
|
|
Last Updated ( Sunday, 30 May 2010 17:13 )
|
|
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:59 |
|
Me and my wife,Lei, both enjoy postcards, so when I saw a new blog carnival, Evelyn Theriault's A Festival of Postcards, I figured that would be an easy one to write a post for. It has been a little more difficult than that, when I saw this editions theme, "Water" and the rules: it’s time to get out those postcards depicting bodies of water, boats, bridges, fish – or anything that contains liquid! And please feel free to interpret the theme as liberally as you wish. I thought I had it - but when I found the postcard ....
|
|
Last Updated ( Sunday, 23 August 2009 17:31 )
|
|
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:59 |
|
Me and my wife,Lei, both enjoy postcards, so when I saw a new blog carnival, Evelyn Theriault's A Festival of Postcards, I figured that would be an easy one to write a post for. It has been a little more difficult than that, when I saw this editions theme, "Water" and the rules: it’s time to get out those postcards depicting bodies of water, boats, bridges, fish – or anything that contains liquid! And please feel free to interpret the theme as liberally as you wish. I thought I had it - but when I found the postcard ....
|
|
Last Updated ( Sunday, 23 August 2009 17:31 )
|
|
Monday, 10 August 2009 15:34 |
|
When I was a little girl, one of my favorite "special" things to do was play with my mom's jewelry. I would get to sit up on my parents bed and go through her jewelry box. As I put on each piece, I would go show my mom how beautiful I looked. She had a story for each one, where dad got it, how he gave it to her, what she liked about it. I think I enjoyed hearing those stories as much as I did wearing the jewelry. The jewelry box, and most of the jewelry is from Japan. Some of the pieces came from Siam and India. I remember thinking the box was just the most beautiful and special thing I had ever seen. It was black and red lacquer painted in the typical Japanese scenes. After you opened the lid, there were two compartments that you lifted and slid to each side, doing that opened a larger area that had more gems inside! It played a dainty Oriental tune. I would keep winding it up so it would play over and over, I would pretend I was in some exotic foreign land and that I was a princess admiring all her jewels. I can't remember when my mom gave me the box, and unfortunately it was lost in a move or ultimately in our fire. I found this picture online, similar to the one my mother had.
Dad was in the Navy. He was a flight engineer on the "Super Connie", a plane in the 'Airborne Early Warning Wing of the Pacific', during
|
|
Last Updated ( Monday, 17 August 2009 04:47 )
|
|
Sunday, 19 July 2009 15:49 |
|
One of my passions is remembering and honoring those who have sacrificed so much, so that we can enjoy freedom. An article caught my eye yesterday morning, so I thought I'd share it. From the BBC News, "Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen,
|
|
Last Updated ( Sunday, 19 July 2009 17:35 )
|
|
Friday, 10 July 2009 16:56 |
|
My Great Aunt Iva was born in 1895, Iva Fern Brown, to William Brown and Ella Pringle, either in Michigan or Ontario. She married George Henry Howell in Genesee Co., Michigan in 1917. I may have met her but I don't remember it, I just remember my Grandmother's many fond stories. I have ended up with her box of memorabilia and pictures.
My wife and I think of her and Uncle George as
|
|
Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 August 2009 18:41 )
|
|
Monday, 25 May 2009 00:00 |
|
Memorial Day 2010 Update:
It's already May 31st! Where is the time going? I'm way behind on this page...but all our websites were invaded a couple months back and we are slowly getting them back online. I have added only a few new pictures to the page this Memorial Day. Recently I was given a picture....
|
|
Last Updated ( Monday, 31 May 2010 13:04 )
|
|
Saturday, 02 May 2009 10:32 |
|
Pinewoman has a story in the Military Picture story area that definitly qualifies as a Photo Mystery, Please go over there and see if you can help.
|
|
Last Updated ( Sunday, 24 May 2009 06:47 )
|
|
|
Sunday, 12 April 2009 14:26 |
Approx 1915 Clio or Davidson, Genesee County, Michigan area? Who are the kids?
The Lady holding the horse on the left is Ella Pringle Dutcher, the second child on the horse from the left with the big bow in her hair is My Grandmother, Daisy Dutcher, born 1908(appro. 7 yrs old). I think that the girl next to her with the horse that is shaking his head is her sister Vivian, born 1905. The other kids are unknown.
Again, aside from Daisy and Vivian Dutcher I don't know who these kids are. The one boy on the left is interesting, he looks like he is in a fancy riding outfit. The Dutchers are very poor farmers, I can't believe that they have rented these horses for a a kids birthday party, but that is sure what it looks like. Also this is circa 1915, all these kids have grown up with horses, it doesn't seem like a pony ride would be that big of a deal to them? My grandmother always talked about how much she loved horses, but, that was about 60 years after this picture was taken and probably 50 years after she last had a horse.
|
|
Last Updated ( Sunday, 31 May 2009 09:24 )
|
|
Tuesday, 24 February 2009 11:13 |
|
This is my GGgrandfather, George Wesley Dutcher, 1855-1926 his son's step daughter Iva Howell was a camera buff. I have always wondered about this picture. George looks like a fun guy to hang out with. My grandmother talks about fishing with him when she was 5 years old. That chair or loveseat or what ever it is looks like it has been in that spot for awhile. Was it in the process of being thrown out? Maybe it was the dogs bed and George just decided to join him? Did Iva have it there because that is where the best sunlight was? I have alot of Iva's pictures and I always picture her with one of those old box cameras. Remember the days before flash cameras? no, neither do I, but I remember when my parents would run out of flash bulbs or flashcubes.
|
|
Last Updated ( Sunday, 24 May 2009 19:56 )
|
|
Friday, 02 January 2009 10:32 |
This is a picture of my father George (Gus) Gustafson, the sailor. He looks pretty young so my guess is that it was taken between 1942-45. It looks like he was at a USO club maybe. I have no idea where though. He was stateside for most of the war as a Aviation Machiist's Mate - Insturctor. His duty stations were: Dearborn, Michigan, Dec '42 - Apr '43; Norman, Oklahoma, Apr '43 - Feb '45 and San Diego, CA, Feb '45 - May '45. He then was aboard the USS Savo Island (CVE78) from May '45 - Dec '45. He received a "Pacific Theatre" medal, so I assume that is where the ship was at the end of the war. Sadly my father passed away when I was 18, so although I remember him talking about his war years I don't really remember specifics. I am trying to do a military timeline with pictures, as a rememberance of my dad's service.
To me the picture looks like all the USO publicity photos of the war years. Does anyone recognize anyone in the picture? Please click on the written by line, if you're a member, to contact me with any information and/or ideas of how I could find out who the other people in the picture are and/or where and when it was taken. If your'e not a member please leave a comment below.
|
|
Last Updated ( Sunday, 31 May 2009 07:54 )
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
WWII USO Photo
Postcard Scavenger Hunt #6 – E...
Postcard Scavenger Hunt #6 – E...
What a fantastic postcard. Thank you for sha...
1915 Birthday?
.jpg)
