Category: Photography

Genealogy, Photography

More Old Photos

Shelly

I don’t even know how I missed it when I was scanning these negatives, but my grandpa Mert’s family had a Boston Terrier when he was a kid. That top photo is of him and his horse, Queen, and their family’s dog.

The middle photo is of Fritz, the dog my grandma Jeanne’s mom had when she was a kid. So both my grandma and grandpa had Boston Terriers when they were growing up.

The bottom photo is another one I didn’t really register, when I scanned it. It was with my grandpa Mert’s dad’s negatives. I’m pretty sure it’s of grandpa’s mom’s parents, Clarissa Perry and Homer Charles Lord. It was probably taken in the late 1930s.

Homer Charles Lord and Clarisa A. Perry Wedding Portrait 1897
Wedding Portrait 1897
Homer Charles Lord and Clarisa A. Perry, about 1915
about 1915
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bigger photo from my journal entry, 1930s?

Genealogy, Photography

Grandpa Mert

Shelly
img025a I don’t think I’ve shared this one. I was going through some of my Flickr albums, because I realized I’d restricted the privacy on them when I didn’t mean to. I love this photo of my grandpa Mert. Those cheekbones! I think this had to have been taken sometime between 1948 and 1950.
Genealogy, Photography

Old Photos

Shelly
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I love this photo. The man in the middle is my great grandfather, Logan Louis Thompson. He and his friends are day drinking in Miami in 1925, so it was the height of Prohibition.

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He’s on the left, here.

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Left to right: Sterrett Pooser and Margaret Basquill, Nell Basquill and Logan Louis Thompson.

Margaret was my great grandma Nell’s sister, and Sterrett was Margaret’s husband. I feel like they all knew how to have fun.

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Margaret Basquill in Florida

I absolutely adore that photo of Margaret.

All of these came from scrapbooks Margaret and Nell kept. The last time I visited my grandma Jeanne, before she died, I scanned all Nell and Margaret’s old photo albums, and then I sat down at the kitchen table with grandma and went through them with her. I wish I’d asked more questions and taken better notes, but I’m grateful I was able to record what I did.