I'm posting at Sepia Saturday today.
This week's challenge is:
165 23 February 2013 : The photograph is called Group Portrait Of An Unknown Family. We all have some unknowns in our collections and this is their special week.
I know that the man on the right (in lighter gray suit) is my paternal grandfather Thomas. I don't know who is standing beside him, but I am guessing it might be his brother as there is a strong resemblance to my Uncle Tommy named after his father, my grandfather.
I wish I knew where this was taken in Dublin.
Both my grandfathers were named Thomas.
I will have to take the time to restore this photo some day.
Here is my Uncle Tommy as a boy he is on the left. I don't know who is on the right so two photos with unknowns!.
10 comments:
They are lovely, and such a nice record of your family to keep. I have a photo of my grandmother taken at the end of the 19th century, and I really treasure it. I've been taking pix of an artwork at a nature reserve http://goo.gl/7FE3e
The man on the left in the first photo looks like he's talking to the photographer - maybe offering encouragement or telling them to hurry up!
Your paternal grandfather is a broad shouldered guy.
It looks as though you have saved these photos just in time. I am sure there are lots of clues there about locations and dates waiting to be discovered.
Well done on finding two! It looks like you have quite a restoration job on.
Too bad the first photo has so many creases. It looks like it would be very hard to restore.
I don't have the skills for restoration. Good luck!
Restoration away- good luck, they are worth working for a cleaner image to protect and keep.
A lot of restoration work to do, and a hard job it will be with the originals not quite in focus. I wish you better success than you've had with identifying the subjects.
I wonder if they had a fight and one of the two brothers crumpled up the photo. Take that.
Nancy
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