A tale of two families, The Norwegian side of my family and the Swedish side. I have decided that the children in the first picture, the Norwegians and including my Grandfather, were rounded up from the fields and hastily dressed.

A man and his kitty.

My Irish Great Grandfather with his mixed race children (story in comments)...

Teenagers listening to records, 1944.

My grandpa in the early 60’s. He’s 98 now.

Two women and a boy at a water pump in a poor area in Stockholm, Sweden in the 1890's.

George Spinny sits with his around his pet bulldog "Joan Gold" at the Middlesex Hospital Open Championship dog show at the Crystal Palace, in London, England, March, 1926

These all work in Hosiery Mills, Cleveland, Tennessee, 1910. Photo by Lewis Hine [4787 x 3369]

My mother in the 50s, now 91.

Granny (2nd from left) and her besties rocking 1960s hairstyles, Turkey

Found this stunning little tintype photo at a flea market in a bin with others. She is nameless but striking in clarity and expression. Thought that you all might like to see her

My great-grandfather in the late 1920s

Coal breaker boy eating lunch. Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pennsylvania, 1890.

Christmas, 1955

1929 Highschool Yearbook

A very distant relative of mine. Born 1888 and Died 1956. Love this photo.