Sometime in the 1920s my grandmother, Mary Willis McSwain Rambo, arranged to have her youngest sister, Lottie Lucille Willis (b. 1906, KY), admitted to the National Jewish Sanitarium in Denver for the treatment of tuberculosis. Lottie's roommate at the sanitarium was Frieda Freed. Frieda remained friends with my grandmother and (great) Aunt Lottie for the rest of their lives. I do not know that this is the same Frieda, but Lottie (1906) and Frieda (1908) were almost the same age. I have put up four pictures of Frieda, two with my grandmother, Mary Willis McSwain Rambo. My Aunt Sue said that Frieda "later moved to California and nursed at City of Hope." I believe the photos were taken during a sailing trip to Avalon, Catalina Island, but I don't have a year, unfortunately.
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...