I asked my mom to get some old family things together so we could talk about them. There was a big silver platter from the 1800s, a few photo albums, a book of stamps, and a few leather notebooks with land documents and newspaper articles.

Her grandmother had already organized the photos in one album, and there were still many loose photos, so she put them in a new album. This is a video of her talking about this album.

- Photograph of Joseph Zimmerman reminds her of his diaries from the 1860s.

- Postcards her grandmother sent from mexico in 1909.

- Photograph of 4 Generations of women

- Photograph of her grandmother’s house in Weatherby, Missouri

- Postcard of the same house in South Texas made from a photograph

- Photographs from grandmother’s time at University of Missouri

- Photograph of a man  “This is her friend, and I think he went to World War I and was killed.”

- “Then she started a career in Houston.” Photograph of the corner of a building and a tree

- Photograph of tombstone where woman from one of the photos at the beginning of the album is buried

- Her grandmother worked with the Red Cross, (ex. photo of Duluth, Minnesota fire rubble)

- “and then she’d come home and visit her relatives, and these are pictures of her family.”

- “and we have this chair today, that little baby chair” pointing to a picture of a toddler on a chair

- “this is my mother as a baby and my father as a baby”

- “and these are the negatives that go with that picture, we still have those.”

- “this is a picture of their front porch in oklahoma on the farm…. they took a trip to kansas city”

- “picture of a living room, the way they decorated it in the early 1900s”

- “more pictures from kansas city… they lived in kansas city a while”

- “and they took some trips to washington d.c. in 1929″

- “and you can see the fashions of the day” pointing to a picture of a person in knickers

- “mount vernon… places they visited… princeton university” pointing at pictures

- “new york city 1929……. so then they visited some relatives in kansas….. and that’s the end of the book”

daguerrotypes

http://preserve.harvard.edu/daguerreotypes/

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