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I visited my parents this week and spent some time scanning old family photos. The couple in this photo are my Dad’s great-aunt and uncle (circa 1900). They owned a farm in Wisconsin. You can click on the photo to enlarge.
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Oh how FUN! I love this.
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What a lovely couple. Life was so hard for most people back then.
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What a dashing young couple they are. I love the lacy dress and the flowers in her hair, so pretty!
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I love these old photos! I’m going to scan the one of my maternal grandparents around the same time period…the clothes and poses are very similar! The men always seemed to be sitting, while the wives stand. But maybe to show off their clothes?
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I think you’re right about why the man is usually sitting and the woman standing, Laurel-Rain.
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I love these old photos too! Your great-great uncle? kinda looks like TBG’s grandfather. He has a pic of his grandparents where they are posed in a similar fashion but his grandmother is nowhere as lovely as your Dad’s great aunt. Shhhh, don’t tell him I said that.
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Wonderful moments captured in that photograph!! They are long gone but that moment still lives…
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Is that their wedding photo? I find it interesting that he’s sitting while she stands. The picture is gorgeous!
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Kathy, yes, it’s their wedding photo.
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How gorgeous. I was at a play last night, Jane Austen type, and these outfits remind me of those costumes.
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You definitely do not see wedding dresses like that these days!
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I love old photos like this! Is that a piece of lace/backdrop on the wall upper right corner?
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Good question, Wanda. I’m not sure.
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I’m loving the old family photos. Photography was such a formal event back then. That does look like a wedding dress. In the photos of my grandmother from the same era she was always wearing something dark.
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This is an absolutely wonderful photo. I love it.
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Love archival photographs! What a dashing mustache!
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I think that this is one of the nicest photographs on Saturday Snapshot.
It is so romantic.
Lovely.
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I love old photos…thanks for sharing this one!
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Oh wow! That photo is indeed wonderful, and I just love that dress! They certainly don’t make wedding dresses like that anymore!
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They look absolutely lovely! On one hand I wish that we still dressed fancy like the old days, on the other I’m so glad to be able to walk around town in shorts and a tank top any time I want to. 🙂
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I love old photos – what a lovely dress she had. Makes me want to go to my mom’s house and scan all of the old family photos.
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I love old photos! The clothes back then were amazing. I wish I had some old family photos.
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What a gorgeous couple. I’m a nut for old portraits! In fact, I collect them. It doesn’t matter that I have no idea who the people in the pictures are, I’m just fascinated by them.
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I love old photos! The dress is gorgeous.
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Old pictures are wonderful to look at. What a handsome couple. I’ve often wondered why they seldom smiled in pictures back then. Beautiful picture, Mary.
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What a beautiful picture. I love the detail on her dress. He seems really tall – even sitting down he look tall.
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This is an amazing photo!! when I lived near Shipshewana I used to visit a few antique stores there and picked up several portraits similar to this just because I’m fond of the style and formality of it all. Gorgeous photo!
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What a beautiful photo! You are so fortunate to have access to these old family photos (and smart to scan and preserve them)
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Love it! Wonder if we could be kin–my dad’s family is from Appleton, my mom’s from Durand
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Their farm was near Alma Center 🙂
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I LOVE old photographs. After my father died earlier this year, and I had to clean out his house, I took all the old photographs, framed them and hung them up in my re-decorated guest bedroom. I love going in their and looking at all the photographs of my parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents!
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I love vintage photos and genealogy! This is great!
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I love going through old family photos. It used to be one of my grandmother’s thinngs to do when I visited because I share her love for family history. She can’t see well enough now 😦
What a good looking couple. Their wedding photo?
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