Everyday Women of the Golden Era

[SayCici]

Everyone has posted wonderful photos, I especially love the family pictures! I really need to take some of my own and find a friend with a scanner.

Lady Day - I hope you've gotten the chance to sit down with your grandmother, or make the book! You should make it so opposite of each picture there is a blank page of paper to make notes on. I wish I had gotten the chance to do that with my grandmother!

 

[dhermann1]

I posted these in the Family Photos thread, but I though I'd share them here, too.
Here's a pretty silly picture of my mom around 1948.

My dad did magazine layout and advertising art, so I suspect this is actually a professional model. I have no idea who she really is. I suspect this was taken right after the war, maybe late 1945 or 46. I wish the resolution was better!

 

[Inky]

This is my husband's mother. She passed away when he was three and a half years old, in 1976. Unfortunately we don't know exactly when this photo was taken.

 

[scotrace]

Dover, Ohio, 1937

From a film shot at the time.

 

[CherryRed]

The wedding of my great Uncle. My grandparents are in the back row on the right. I think my Grandmother looks like a young Barbara Stanwyck

My grandmother with her brother and 3 of her sisters. (the little girl is my aunt)

My great aunt Grace as a teen and then on her wedding day.

 

[December]

This is my Grandma and Grandad on their wedding day in 1955

 

[zendy]

This is my grandmother and my dad 1947

 

[Amy Jeanne]

From Square America

I love her dress and I love Boston Dental's art deco windows.

I know she was posted earlier in the thread, but does she have no top on under those overalls?? They look like the EvaDress ones we're all making! lol

 

[Ada Veen]

I think I may have posted one or two of these before a while ago in the family snaps thread, but here are my grandad and grandma in everyday garb:

And here is a portrait of my grandma. I just love her hair. We have very, very straight hair in my family and if I am correct I think she had a perm back in those days:

 

[Ada Veen]

This is my grandmother and my dad 1947

I just love this dress. So simple and such a beautiful shape.

 

[December]

Ada, your grandma was beautiful!

 

[goldwyn girl]

They are all such wonderful photo's

 

[Shirin]

This one is my favorite. I really like the whole fun care free look of the photo. Everyone looks so happy on that day. The bride and groom photo is lovely too, such a cute couple.

 

[December]

Everyone looks so happy on that day.

Except the kid who looks angry at the dog! lol

 

[MissAmelina]

I just spent a nice weekend with my Grammy over her 91st birthday....and I snagged some famliy photos from the 40's!

My great Aunt and mom's first cousin:

My Grammy and my Grammy with a friend in Idaho:

It was so nice to visit with her. She laughed when I told her she and Zsa Zsa Gabor are the same age.

There will be more on my blog soon!

 

[buddy5909]

Family

This is a picture of my in-laws in 1968

My Great Uncle Bob

My Great Aunt Virginia

 

[Amy Jeanne]

A plethora of photos of "regular folk" up to 1960!

http://www.duryeapa.com

There is so much inspiration there I don't even know where to begin....here is a small sample:

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I could go on.....

 

[Lady Day]

Oh man, I bet this woman had some stories!

LD

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I love her!!! I love her dress!