Dimitra Cudd

A photo of Mrs. Christine Fisher, 103 yrs old. She was born at Connelsville, PA ? May 11, 1796. Oldest living of five generations. Kodak picture taken by Mary D. Sinclair, January 1899. She is anxious to live into 1900 and will have lived during three centuries and during all Presidents' times. She reads her Bible that is on her lap often.

Thanksgiving maskers were children who dressed up on the last Thursday of November and begged for fruit and money. (This was before Halloween was celebrated.) There was a large uproar about this practice - newspapers denounced parents who allowed their children to follow this "hooligan" practice. These children look like they were having fun!

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Bain News Service

A photo of my fourth great grand-father, rabbi Dow Ber Meisels, born in 1798. He was Chief Rabbi in Krakow, Poland. He supported Polish Independence for which he was persecuted by the Russian government.

This is a photo of my dad, Sol Baum, age 10, with his older half-sister, Lilly Baum Broza, daughter of his mother (my grandmother) and her first husband. Lilly was born in Austria, I believe, and was left there with HER grandmother for a few years, while her mother (my grandmother, Fannie Apfelbaum), came to New York. There, Fannie met and married my grandfather Abraham (who also had been married before), They had one daughter, named after my great-grandmother, Devora. This little girl, Deborah, died at a young age. My middle name, Diane, is to honor her. (As her name, Deborah, was to honor Devora). My father was born a few years after Deborah died.

Sigrid Hartvigsdatter Lunde, born at Senja in Troms county of Norway january the 5. 1883. This photo is taken in the early 1900, possibly in the US. Sigrid loved traveling and traveled first to Jamaica and then to Charleston, but went back to Norway where she married Erik Andersson Brenden.