Photo Restoration

[JPSmit]

My Brother in Law who teaches Electric Shop (and various tech add ons) Had his students doing photo restoration. Yesterday I got this - the work of one of his students.

The youngest child in the pic (pink dress) is my grandmother (my Mother's mother) and the man is my great grandfather (whom I never met) He had 6 children by his first wife. She died, he remarried and had 6 more children. The picture is his bakery (Amersfoort Holland) where his daughters worked but if any of the male bakers paid the daughters too much attention they would be fired.

 

[Gliderman8]

Wow, what a treasure. Very nice.
I guess the male bakers never said “nice buns”

 

[Basil]

What a nice piece of family history. Do you have the original picture that was used?

 

[Basil]

The youngest child in the pic (pink dress) is my grandmother

I can't tell which one is youngest. Is it the little girl in front on the one behind (who appears taller but is standing on a step)

 

[NutmegCT]

JP - what a great story there. Interesting also to see "Parisian Bakery" in a Dutch city. Looks like they also sold lamps?

Thanks.
Tom M.

 

[mikephillips]

That is great to have. I've been going through lots of old photos going back into the 1800s myself, identifying people and making copies for my brothers to eventually give to their kids. One thing I've been trying to do is completely identify everyone I can meaning full names, maiden and married for women as well, plus location. Hopefully 100 years from now someone as yet unborn will appreciate the effort...

 

[JPSmit]

I can't tell which one is youngest. Is it the little girl in front on the one behind (who appears taller but is standing on a step)

I beleieve she is the one on front.

 

[NutmegCT]

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[JPSmit]

JP - what a great story there. Interesting also to see "Parisian Bakery" in a Dutch city. Looks like they also sold lamps?

Thanks.
Tom M.

I suspect it is decor but, you knew I was going to ask if you had ever shopped there - so you might know better than me.

 

[NutmegCT]

Nope - never shopped there. But my grandson painted the window.



Sign for an outdoor bathing spot: "A bath strengthens; alcohol weakens"

Take a close look at the right of the photo:

 

[mikephillips]

Actually we have used Ancestry, my youngest brother did one of those DNA matches with his daughter. My dad was adopted and we knew the birth mother who was a cousin to his adopted mom, but never the birth father. Surprise, he got a match to a lady who is the daughter of one of three brothers and one of them we all agree is the father. Everyone who would need to be checked to narrow it down is long gone, but she kindly shared photos of the brothers and their parents, along with hers and her kids/grandkids. So additional branches found.

The photos I've been doing, not so difficult identifying most folks, main thing is the sheer number of them and writing it all on the back of each so it doesn't get lost. Finger cramps.... Plus dozens of letters from my maternal grandmother to her parents as she went though college and was away, as well as from my mom to her folks growing up. Not to mention others going back to the Civil War period. My maternal grandmother kept everything like that she got her hands on..