Photos of my mother Doris, my aunt Mary V and their brothers Mershell and Howard Graham. My grandparents bought the house on Theodore in 1923, before my mother was born. They lived there until 1968 when they moved into a two family flat with my family. Here are some winter photos taken in the back yard.
Mershell Cunningham Graham 1921-1927
D – DORIS Graham born 1923
Mary V. Graham Remembers Christmas – 1929
Baby’s First Photograph – Feb. 9, 1929
Loved seeing the children, and their outfits! Such a fun fuzzy coat on your aunt in the first shot. At least the 1927 photo had kids with mittens, otherwise some bare hands in the snow must have been cold! So glad someone caught your mother and the baby in the window in the last photo, it makes an extra depth to the family. Hope you and your loved ones have a very happy holiday season!
I think Mary V has on gloves in the 1929 photo. They don’t look like they were out there playing. Maybe a Sunday.
The mother in the window with baby Howard was Mary V and Doris’s mother, not mine. I wasn’t born until 1946 🙂
Love these pics. What is your aunt wearing in the first one! (It looks like Santa’s beard!
I too love that photo of your grandmother in the window with the baby. We have one like that of my mother and her siblings playing out in the street with my grandmother in the window.
It just hit me yesterday that the 1920s are now a hundred years ago. And yet they are very much in our memories as the decade in which our parents (both of mine and at least your mother) were born.
I don’t know what that coat is made of! In 2020 I did my A to Z on 1920. My aunt Mary V was born in 1920. My mother in 1923. My father was born in 1911.
Amazing how the older we get, the closer 100 years becomes.
Very nice match for our theme. Children playing in the snow must be one of the classic images of Christmas time. But as parents well know the fun only lasts ten minutes until kids are back inside complaining about having nothing to do :—) Strange how the snow in sepia tone photos looks deeper and colder than in modern pics in color. I wish you and your family a happy holiday with lots of joy.
I don’t remember me or my kids being back in the house so quickly. Maybe because winter lasted so long in Michigan and the snow used to last all winter. Now it seems to melt and freeze and rain and snow. But then, piles of snow that had been plowed up lasted into March or later.
I wish you a happy holiday too!
Great match for the promotion and I love that coat in the first photo- what was it made of? fuzzy yarn? I wish I had photos of my parents in the 1920s but sadly no.
I think some kind of fur? She was wearing it the year before in 1924 but no snow in that one. I’m lucky to have so many photos of my parents and grandparents back in the early 1900s.
That snow got pretty deep at times! Cute pictures of kids having a good time in the snow. Until I married my forester husband, I didn’t live in the snow. After that it was snow every year & I loved it. Really gets you into the season’s spirit. Have a lovely Christmas & a hopefully positive New Year! 🙂
I’m doing my best to get into the spirit! I’m in snowless Tennessee, but with family and that makes it festive.
Great photos. The winter coats, especially the fuzzy one, delight.
I wonder how warm it was.