A recovered photo of my great grandmother

[EYESORE 9001]

I recovered this photo of my great grandmother from the collection of a deceased relative. I’m always looking for pieces of the puzzle.

[littlemissmartypants]

1. I love her dress! ❤️

[EYESORE 9001]

4. She does appear to be a 'free spirit' for the time (1940s)

She operated a mercantile business earlier, where she often wore men’s pants (gasp!) and smoked a corncob pipe (shriek!)

[AllaN01Bear]

12. nice smile.

[Hope22]

2. So beautiful!

💗💗💗🙏🏼💐

[Shellback Squid]

3. reddit has a sub that you can present a damaged image

and they will restore it, I've seen some amazing work

[EYESORE 9001]

6. I haven't tried it yet

but I will

[Walleye]

5. Beautiful. I love historic old photos.

[woodsprite]

7. That's awesome! I love going through old photos.

Unfortunately, since my brother passed sway in July, I’m the only one who knows who a lot of those relatives are. I’m trying to document them, and my daughter has taken an interest in identifying people and locations.

[Delmette2.0]

17. Hint from my sister.

Look at the back grounds, even a single tree can link two photos.

[Diamond_Dog]

8. I also love old photos.

Your great grandmother has a look of happy confidence about her. Do you know the year it was taken?

[EYESORE 9001]

9. Date is uncertain

I’m guesstimating early 1940s - not long after US involvement in World War II began. Note the wheel well of the car on the street.

[Diamond_Dog]

10. Got it! Was this in Ohio or somewhere else, do you know? Just curious.

[EYESORE 9001]

11. I'm thinking Ohio

Definitely not California, where she lived at the end of her life.

[llmart]

13. Both of my parents and grandparents were from Ohio.

Cleveland to be exact. I have many pictures of them.

[Diamond_Dog]

14. My dad grew up in Cleveland too. He played semi pro baseball, he was a pitcher.

[Warpy]

15. I have tintypes, the wedding photos taken of my great grandmother and her first husband in Ireland

He was able to hold a smile (most people couldn't) and is sitting in what must have been the height of fashion in the 1860s but which would put our eyes out today, looking like he just won Powerballl. My great grandmother was posed very demurely, she was tiny (born during the Famine and well under 5 feet tall) but you could tell the grinning Mr. Cionnor had caught a tigress and didn't know it yet.

[EYESORE 9001]

19. As far as I can tell, all of my forebears immigrated before photography became mainstream

The most recent immigrant (that I know of) came from Germany in the 1820s. If photos of him exist, I am unaware of them.

[Warpy]

20. Tintype photography didn't come into widespread enough use

until the 1850s or so, and then it was mostly the middle and upper middle classes who could afford it. Most immigrants paid for the cheapest passage they could find, saving any money and valuables they had to help them start a new life here. They wouldn't have wasted it on photography even if it had been in wider use.

[EYESORE 9001]

21. It isn't tintype

It’s sepia tone, which now leads me to believe it’s from the 30s instead of early 40s.

[3Hotdogs]

16. I'd guess late 30's.

A car like that would be less likely to be around in the 40's.

In the 40's, when I grew up, I recall cars from the 30's. Never saw an from the 20's.

[EYESORE 9001]

18. Lots of 30s autos were still around in the early 40s

As it isn’t California, which they left before the onset of US involvement in WWII.