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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Two From My Archives
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 15:17:06 -0600
Thanks for looking, Chris. Some days, I choose to reflect rather than go out and search for new images.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 12/7/2015 3:08 PM, ChrisB wrote:
Those are lovely bits of history, Jim.  As I grow older I appreciate such 
history more.

Chris

On 7 Dec 15, at 20:52, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In 1980, I was shooting with a Polaroid SX-70.  This is an edited scan, showing 
my late wife and our first grandchild.  He is now a doctor with a successful 
practice in Internal Medicine, and has four children of his own.

http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Rob+and+Grandma+1980.jpg.html 
<http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Rob+and+Grandma+1980.jpg.html>

Among the family history keepsakes that my wife had was a studio photo of her 
great-grandparents and their family, typical of the studio work of the early 
1900s.  Her grandfather is the young man second from the right as you view the 
photo.  There are some stains from the years that show if one looks too 
closely.  I did not attempt to remove them.

Her grandfather went on to build his own trailer incorporating a Direct 
Positive studio, which he and his wife used at fairs and celebrations to 
provide income during the 1930s.  His younger brother, in front, organized a 
crew that toured the West offering to convert family pictures into curved-glass 
covered portraits.  Though most such crews were honest, there were some 
dissatisfied customers, resulting in signs telling portrait salesmen that they 
were unwelcome and might be shot.

The young girl in front lived to be 101.

http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Orr+Family+Circa+1906.TIFF.html 
<http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Orr+Family+Circa+1906.TIFF.html>

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