Two photos, one labeled on the front, "Little Edith Mae and her Grandmama" but I think it’s EULA’s grandmother, i.e., Edith’s great-grandmother, Mrs. Graybill. Second labeled on the back, "Grandma, Edith Mae, Mabel, and Mama." I think they’re in California, but can’t prove it unless someone recognizes the setting. The hats alone are worth the […]
He said the photo was taken with a pinhole camera.
Our grandfather, born in 1882. He looks to be about 40 years old here so we guess this to be from about 1922. He died August 18, 1945 in Dallas. For more details, see these biographical notes.
Santa Monica, California, about 1914.
Frederick "Poppy" Miller (left), his brother Jack, and Philip A. L. Miller, Jr. (right). Philip says the photo was taken in the 1980s outside the Boston Club on Canal Street in New Orleans, where Poppy and Jack were members, as were earlier generations of Millers. Photographs were not allowed inside the Club. Philip said that […]
Picture found at 2820 Throckmorton in Dallas. Identities uncertain. EMM thinks it might be her father and herself. Her father’s name was Zeke Shumway–Eula and Zeke divorced when EMM was very young. EMM met Zeke once and then, at age 20, she attended his funeral. "My mother made me go to the funeral", she says. […]