I’ve always thought the portrait of my maternal grandparents looked more like paper cut-outs than the kind and warmhearted people I knew when I was a child. Grandpa died when I was only 5 years old, Grandma four years later.
When my mother died I took care of all of the pictures she had. That’s when I got an explanation to why the picture seemed so fake…
This is the studio photo used to make the formal portrait – on the back it says “12 cabinet-copies. The two girls to be removed.” The picture was probably taken around 1946 when my two aunts were 13 and 18 respectively. I love seeing their hands – I rarely if ever saw my Grandpa idle – except when he and Grandma lied down on the kitchen sofa to rest after dinner… Grandma would lie in front of him with her head on his arm.
It is so sad that you lost your grandparents at such a young age… and such a treasure to now own these photographs. So interesting that they had the ability to do that to pictures back then!
Comment by Karen (formerly kcinnova) — February 6, 2013 @ 6:16 am