Jim VanDyke & Isabella Sinclair

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11/01/2016

Taken around 1880, a grandmother with her grandson.

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Chrissy Ann

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11/01/2016

Yay, a smile!

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Mariaalmeida Spencer

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11/01/2016

hi.my.family

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Oonagh Hickey

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11/01/2016

I love the way the little boy is resting his hand on his grandmothers lap.. there seems to be genuine affection there. Granny looks very proud.

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AncientFaces

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11/01/2016

Yes! And this is a "lost" photo bought at an antique shop - so sad that a family full of affection lost this treasure.

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Oonagh Hickey

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11/01/2016

That's so true. One could try to imagine why he was photographed with her alone.. perhaps his mother died and his grandmother raised him. It's a lovely photo.. thanks for sharing.

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Tony Howard

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11/02/2016

except that his hand is on his own knee which is covered by grannies skirt - but yes granny looks proud indeed

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David Gorman

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11/01/2016

Nice

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Esther Evans

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11/01/2016

I have a photo very much like this, of my Dad and grandma.....

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Annette Friedel

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11/01/2016

How times have changed, ill bet she was young, her hands are unlined.

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Janis Jennings

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11/01/2016

Sweet!!

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Gail Warner

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11/01/2016

Granny is as cute as can be. Little boy too.

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T.c. Johnston

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11/01/2016

I think the boy has passed. It was common in those times to take portraits with their loved ones that pass. Photo were expensive and it was the only time they could usually afford it. You can see the stand behind him and on the floor behind him. It's a beautiful photo.

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Thomas Breen

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11/01/2016

I think you are right, doesn't look like his left foot.

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T.c. Johnston

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11/01/2016

His right hand is also swollen and his left I is barely open.

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Janice L. Rucker-Goodwin Thomas

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11/01/2016

Little James Pratt VanDyke died in 1932.

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Gabriela Albornoz

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11/01/2016

I thought the same T.c. Johnston

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Joanne Fonseca

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11/01/2016

That was not 1932 so he was an OLD man when he died people....They often used stands wind children in the 1800 when this was obviously taken to keep them from slumping as it took a long time..I don't think granny would be so happy if the child were dead His hand might look that way because he moved it..

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