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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2017-02-01 02:51 pm

Granny's Photo Stash 5

My granny as a little girl, with her brothers (presumably) There's a note on the back that says "Tuesday afternoon" but doesn't give the date.

[identity profile] pondhopper.livejournal.com 2017-02-01 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
A very interesting staged portrait. It reminds me somehow of the portrait of Christopher Robin Milne or from around that time.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2017-02-01 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I don't suppose they were always so well behaved.

This'll be rather earlier than the Milne pictures. I don't know the date exactly but I'm guessing c. 1890. These children were all young adults when the Great War broke out.

[identity profile] halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com 2017-02-01 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
so tell me, does the carpet cover the rabbit hole? For your Granny looks very much like Alice, to me.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2017-02-01 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Doesn't she just! :)

[identity profile] athenais.livejournal.com 2017-02-01 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I love this! What a great photo. They look so Victorian.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2017-02-02 09:09 am (UTC)(link)
I guess it must have been taken c.1890.

[identity profile] lora-diary.livejournal.com 2017-02-02 07:34 am (UTC)(link)

Great photo. I love it.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2017-02-02 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

[identity profile] puddleshark.livejournal.com 2017-02-02 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
So formal!

I love photographic portraits from this period.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2017-02-02 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
Long exposure times. If the kids hadn't been sitting still they'd have been a blur.