A photo of Knut Paul Ourom at Stræte school where he was living with his family, and where his father, Bjarne worked as a teacher. Våler i Solør, Hedmark, Norway, probably in the late thirties
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...
The 1930's were a decade of severe stress: the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, the rise of Nazism. But it was also the end of Prohibition, the beginning of the change of land management (poor farm ...