Vintage Family Photos

Andy Kibber

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Family photos taken by you or someone else, over 20 years old.

Both taken in Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick, 1979:
 
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Andy, it took my friend Florence Tiger a couple of days and several phone calls to get me halfway comfortable using my scanner and posting the pix on my blog. She's been promising to teach me how to post here. I'm not joking either! I have epilepsy, and either due to brain damage caused by the seizures, or due to the fact that the anti-seizure meds make me moderately stoned all the time, I have a devil of a time learning new procedures. My long term memory is fine. Just don't ask me what I ate for breakfast. Most days I couldn't tell you IF I ate breakfast.
 
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Sometime just after the First World War (1919 I think). The old couple in the middle are my Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother. Also included: my grandmother, grandfather, father, 1 uncle, 1 aunt, 2 great uncles, 1 great aunt and a few that come under the heading "ain't got a clue".

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Picture of my grandfather, taken a few years before 1905 not by myself but by a cousin of his. Scanned from the glass negative (6x9cm).
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it pays to be old :*)

it pays to be old :*)

not quite 20 years, but of my son and his dad and made by me; Desert Storm Homecoming 1991

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me and my mother (holding the baby), and two of my brothers in Deadwood, SD circa 1955; the other woman in the photo was our "hired girl" (aka nanny and housekeeper in modern terms)

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summer 1971; my three boys... the youngest (aged two) would NOT keep his closthes on; I've altered it for web viewing given the number of voyeurs on the web; made by me

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what a great idea for a thread.

Thanks. I find family photos pretty fascinating. At the risk of sounding a bit snarky, it's refreshing to see photos of things rather than photos demonstrating lens, film or sensor characteristics. I mean, those are fun too, but not nearly as interesting.

I'm currently trawling through seven of my father's slide carousels from 1976-1990 or so.
 
My father and me, Summer of 1949. Picture taken with a Voigtlander Brillant TLR.
 

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Thanks to everyone for posting so far. I especially like the ski bunnies.

Yours truly on the right, circa 1987:
 
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not quite 20 years, but of my son and his dad and made by me; Desert Storm Homecoming 1991

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me and my mother (holding the baby), and two of my brothers in Deadwood, SD circa 1955; the other woman in the photo was our "hired girl" (aka nanny and housekeeper in modern terms)

38097337.jpg



summer 1971; my three boys... the youngest (aged two) would NOT keep his closthes on; I've altered it for web viewing given the number of voyeurs on the web; made by me

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Summer of 1971, great. I have many like this too. Here is one of my daughters, 1971-2:

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Great stuff by everyone. I'll have to dig some old prints out and scan them.

john, I think I've seen and commented on these two before, but I liked 'em so much, I'll comment again: great work charjohncarter pere!

 
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Last summer my mom passed away. While preparing for her funeral I went through boxes of old photos of her. This one is when she was in the second or third grade. We always thought she looked like "Scout" from To Kill a Mockingbird in this photograph.

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My mom holding her little sister. It was taken during the winter of 1933-34, exact date unknown
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scanned from the original 116 or 616 (you can't tell without the spool or camera) negative.
 
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This is quite possibly the first, and most probably the best, photograph I have taken so far.

HIs name was "Scamp". The snap was taken around 1962 or 3 with an Agfa or Ilford something or other.

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