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A century of children!
Picture above is #1
Who can you identify? What can you remember?
This is NOT the final exam, just the summer finale! It's Labor Day weekend, afterall. The idea here is not to stump everyone - this will. I will be really surprised if any one gets all these correct, though some may come close. Afterall, these pictures span more than a century!
The idea is to show a lot of family members (not everyone, though) in pictures taken when they were all five years old or under. Among other things, I think this reveals family traits. So you might keep an eye out for similarities. Any look like the present generation of children?
Please treat this as more than an identity quiz. What I hope is at least one picture sparks some recognition in you and you can share with us something about that picture. (Remember the comments form below the pictures!) In other words, don't get hung up if you can only identify one. Let's hear what you can identify and what - if any thing - the picture recalls for you? Anything special in the background? Any special memories associated with a photograph, or little extra tidbits you might add that connect to the photo, if only vaguely?
Do me one favor - when you comment on a photo, refer to it by number. But do comment. (Oh - and do be patient. This page has a lot of pictures on it, so it will take a while to load.)
#2
No I didn't get everyone in here. maybe I should have tried. Frankly, these pictures show up in odd corners in different albums and most in no album at all - I'm only now starting to get them organized. So I just choose a few that fit the theme of children five or under.
#3
Yes, many of these pictures were taken in Barrington, RI.
#4
Yes, all of them come from the collections of Owings and Margaret Stone.
#5
Yes, they do represent the history of photography. One is a Daguerotype, the first popular photographic form.
#6
Another I suspect uses collodion and is printed on paper coated with albumen, which replaced the Daguerotype starting about 1850. Very surprising, really, given who it is, but entirely possible.
#7
Here's a big hint for those of you who know about such things. One image was hand-clored by someone who is pictured in another image!
#8
One image has huge pine cones in it that I remember well from a trip I took with my parents when I was a teenager.
#9
One has something in it that I believe was made by Alex Hirst, Bren's father, and painted by my mother. But this object is NOT in image #9 necause when #9 was taken, Alex was still in England.
#10
Another has a cat in it that if I remember correctly, could really stomp loudly.
#11
Hmmmm... were all these pictures taken in Rhode Island and Maryland? Maybe. Maybe not.
#12
One has "Happy Birthday" written on the back of it.
#13
Another says: "Sent to Grandmother Elizabeth Hammond Downey Gillilean (sp?) Christmas 1934. And another just says "Spring 1963" or "May '66" while yet another says "March 10, 1910."
Well, I recognize me, Sarah, Hilary, you, Pop-pops and Jess (I still think Jess looks more like Pop-pops), Lisa, and maybe Daniel with the cat and Owings with the birthday cake.
I have the vaguest memories of the garden and patio and I remember that horse in the garage. I have a rocking horse painted in a similar fashion. Now that I don't have to worry about lead paint, I should pull it out!
The best thing about these pictures is the expressions on the childrens' faces, because many are universal. Hilary is delighted, I think, to pet the little dog.
Owings (?) is spellbound by the candle, simply frozen.
Pop-pops and Jess's expressions are especially funny, because whatever the person off to the right is doing to get them to smile, Pop-pops finds amusing, but older brother Jess is dubious.
Maggie
Posted by: Maggie at August 30, 2003 10:51 AM#1: Margaret. I don't remember that particular wooden horse, but I do recall the painted wooden rocking horse that had all of our names written on it. And whenever I see so many daffodils in one place, I always think of Nana and her gardening.
#2: Sarah. The baby almost looks like Catharen
#3: Greg? And with another horse!
#6: Dan with our cat Bow-bow, who liked to sit on the fridge and whack men on the head. I'm not sure whether it was because the men were taller and he could reach them, or whether (as Mom said) he just didn't seem to like men. Note the holey shoes again -- Dan ran through shoes!
#7: Geez, looks like me but is obviously an earlier generation. My dad?
#9: Must be Owings and Jess -- but I agree with Margaret, I see more of a family resemblance between our family and the taller boy! Though of course the younger is still a little pudgy around the face.
#10: Lisa in the house in Barrington
#11: Could this be me? Funny but I have a black and white polaroid of me at my other grandparents house where I'm sitting on the floor looking directly into the camera. An arm and hand on the left is holding a plate with a cupcake and a single lit candle.
Posted by: Owings Stone at August 31, 2003 12:05 PM#1 Margaret on one of her more successful pony rides !
#2 Catharen
#3 My Dad riding an interesting horsey contraption
#4 Don ?
#5 Thank you so much for sharing this lovely photo of me posing as a garden imp !
#6 Dan...loving his cat
#7 ????
#8 also ?????
#9 Owings and Jess. Jess looks unhappy with the outfit he was dressed in for picture taking.
#10 Lisa
#11 Owings enjoying his first birthday
#12 Nana
#13 ?????
Even I knew the first one was Maggie. But posing Sarah topless (#5)--you'd risk jailtime trying to get that developed these days. The cat in #6 looks very happy, doesn't it?
Posted by: Mike Mahoney at September 4, 2003 04:14 PM