This is a real photo postcard from 1923, featuring an image of a lovely, curly headed boy and a religious sentiment. Love in Born! Love that light’neth one and all, Love that shines through tiny eyes, Love that transforms Bethlehem’s stall. Christ-love, lighten, transform, call Us Thy children. O arise In childlike hearts today. From …
On the back of this was written 1928. Unfortunately, without any more information this is a difficult name to track down.
This tiny photo was probably cut out of a real photo postcard based on the weight of the paper. On the back was written “Daughters of Claire Allison Land Pederson, Dulcy, Gerry & Dorthymae, All 3 Lewandowski (Land)” The original writing was in pencil then later copied over with ball point pen and a …
Recently, site reader Ray Jackson shared this photo with us and our good friend Iggy and I found that there were two Horace Joneses living in Arcade NY, both born in 1840, both serving in the Civil War, both with mothers named Sophrona/Sophronia. It was quite a mystery and I contacted the Arcade Historical Society …
For this week’s Sepia Saturday I have a photo from the 1970s of my mother carving a turkey. From the perspective I believe my sister or I took the photo because she is looking down at the photographer, i.e. a little kid ha ha. Her note on the back of the photo says the turkey …
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