Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Another photo-editing miracle

The original of this pic is 3 X 4 inches--about the size of a cel phone--so it was hard to see who the people might be.  Yeah, Grandpa Janson always stood that way, like a leaning tower, so it was probably him.  But then, what about the others?

The old black & white photos don't distort when they're enlarged because there's so much info stored on them, so we can see that this is probably the Anton Janson family...but hmm, not quite.  The littlest kid would have been Reinhard, at maybe 4?  Then this was 1925, and Loretta (with the elbows) would have been 8, and Linda, 10.  The woman in back would have been Margaret, my grandma, but I question the photo.
(For ease of reference, lets name these figures, ok?  The woman in the black coat is Big Girl;  the woman reaching out we'll call Woman;  the girl in white is Elbows, and the little kid is LK...lol)

Another thing we have to consider is who the photographer was.  Who did they know in 1925 with a camera?  Well, Ida Naber, and we know they visited each other fairly often.  That summer,  Ida was 23, and her sis Walburga was 27.  If they were visiting, taking pictures was a given. 

But at 10, mom wouldn't have been as tall as 'Big Girl' in the photo, and would have been dressed more like 'Elbows'...so maybe the 'Woman' was grandma Margaret, and 'Big Girl' was Walburga...and at this moment, Linda was still combing her hair or something.  Was it the day this ▼ pic was taken?   And, which farm was this?  The Janson farm in Buckman, or the Naber farm in Bancroft, Iowa?

(Yah, it's also possible that 'Big Girl' was a 'Hired Girl', but that's not as fun as speculating !)

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