Sabrina Nelson

John Wilson Moir and Helen Alice Levine Fowler Moir

A photo of my maternal Grandmother, Anna Byers McNally. with work place friends. She emigrated with parents and sibs from Germany in 1882 when she was 6. They settled in Penn. and got into the silk mill business. Anna was evidently in charge of a processing room from a picture we have.She met my grandfather, Ernest V McNally,from Conn. who also was in the mills . Married on 07 and moved to Belding, Michigan where the Belding Bros mills were set up. My mother, Helen McNally was born there and her brother, Valentine was born in Penn.After the silk Mills closed in the early 30's the couple managed the Hotel Belding until it closed in early 40's.Don't know the theme of the photo.

Harry Worley, wife Etta O'Dell Worley holding their youngest child, Melvin Arlen Worley (born 1932), living on the street following a 6.3 earthquake in March 1933. Child and woman on the right are unknown, but no doubt friends of the Worley's.
People in photo include: Melvin Arlen Worley

A photo of Carrie, Louise (my grandmother), Ruth and Ella Rennie.

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.

A photo of Melinda S Cushing

A child playing with Howdy Doody, the main character of "Howdy Doody", an American children's television program. The series was created by E. Roger Muir and produced by NBC.

Had to post this adorable picture I found in an antique store. From Springtown, Ohio circa 1880's - 1890's a little boy in his Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit and hair looking like he wished the photographer would take the picture already! Just love it!

Sailors decorating the graves of their comrades who were killed at the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Names of the sailors unknown.

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, U.S. Navy

A photo of William Henthorne

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.

A photo of my grandfather, Elmer Szafranski, who is the 4th man from the left. My mom says it's from his "tour of Germany" he helped liberate Dachau concentration camp
People in photo include: Elmer Szafranski

A photo of the sons of Charles Swain: Kneeling Robert Edmund Swain (1858-1915)
Sitting Charles Daniel Swain (1853-1927)
Standing George William Swain (1856-1928)

This photo was purchased by me at the flea market in Dayton, OH

Who is this woman, and who is the man in the photo in the broach she is wearing?

My great-great grandmother Elisaveta Markova, her children, and her 15 y.o. daughter's guests.
People in photo include: Elisaveta Joannovna Markova

A photo of Ralph Hadlund. It was popular in the 1920s to put children in small tubs and take a picture.
People in photo include: Ralph Louis Hadlund

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.

A photo of Alvin Lutz as a baby
People in photo include: Alvin Lutz

A photo of Ione (or Jone) Wood as a little girl
People in photo include: Ione Wood