My grandpa was an amazing guitar player. He use to play & sing to me all the time. He was my father figure until he passed when I was 9. He was on an oxygen tank. His bladder burst & had congestive heart failure. He is laid to rest next to my grandma. If tear drops were pennies was one of his songs. He was from Georgia.
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...