This is a photo of my great-grandparents in Stockholm, Sweden. From left to right - Hulda Maria Lenea Wearn Svedberg, Jonas Kurt Frederick (none to me as Uncle Fred), Stig (my uncle), Eric Svedberg (my great-grandfather), and Sonja Hulda Lenea Swedberg Morey (my maternal grandmother). this was taken circa 1914.
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...