{"id":3129,"date":"2013-05-12T13:20:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T20:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2013-05-13T06:50:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:50:59","slug":"color-photo-from-ca-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/color-photo-from-ca-1942\/","title":{"rendered":"Color photo from ca. 1942"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1942<\/a>I’ve recently seen a few color photos from World War II, but I thought that must have been a rare, expensive, and exceptional technology. Today I found a small (2\u00bc by 3\u00bc inch)\u00a0color photo of my grandmother, Harriet (Askew) Prettyman, from around 1942.<\/p>\n

The photo is of Harriet (on the right) and an unidentified woman (perhaps Valborg Marie “Vollie” Berdahl) with an unidentified man (perhaps Harriet’s half-uncle and Vollie’s future husband, William Leighton “Bill” Askew) between them, sitting on a sandy beach. The women are are barefoot and are wearing two-piece swimsuits, and the man is wearing trunks, a white t-shirt, sandals, and has a towel over his neck. The two women are each holding a slice of watermelon. There’s a bottle of what is presumably tanning oil next to Harriet’s feet, and a pair of sunglasses to the left of the other woman.<\/p>\n

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There’s no date on the photo, but there are a few clues:<\/p>\n