{"id":490,"date":"2012-08-27T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T00:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2012-09-02T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T15:35:08","slug":"gertrude-scott-and-her-little-sister-eva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/blog\/gertrude-scott-and-her-little-sister-eva\/","title":{"rendered":"Gertrude Scott and her little sister Eva"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This will be a quick post\u2014no mysteries to solve, no histories to relay; just a touching photo I found on my most recent trip to my grandmother Harriet’s house (late August, 2012). When I first saw the photo, it was part of a photo collage made by my grandmother Harriet about 30\u201340 years ago.<\/p>\n

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The glue that Harriet used to make the collage had become old and brittle in the three or four decades years since the collage was made, and the photo was easily removed from the poster board backing without any damage to the photo (NB: there was one small area\u2014about 2 cm\u00b2\u2014that was not easily separated from the poster board, so I left that area attached to the surface of the poster board pending later conservation<\/em>).<\/p>\n

When I removed the photo, I discovered that it was not just a photo, it was a photo postcard. \u00a0Even better, a caption for the photo had been written on the back of the postcard. \u00a0To top it off, it had been written by my great grandmother herself!<\/p>\n

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Until now, I had never knowingly seen a photo of my great grandmother as a young woman. \u00a0Nearly every photo I have of her is from her 40s to her 80s. \u00a0And then along comes this treasure, opening a window onto my great grandmother’s young adulthood.<\/p>\n

The caption on the back reads:<\/p>\n

Mrs Mina Arbuckle<\/p>\n

Deer Creek<\/p>\n

Minn<\/p>\n

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Dear Mina<\/p>\n

Here is a card of Eva and I and it is for you and Mildred because I [have got] another one. \u00a0It is so very good. \u00a0Hope you are all well. \u00a0Tell all the folks hello.<\/p>\n

Gertie<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There isn’t much on the back of the card to date the photo (although I wonder if the area still obscured by the poster board covers the second half of a month and year). \u00a0I’m not confident in my abilities to estimating the ages of people, but I’d guess that Eva (the younger of the two) is about 3-6 years old here. \u00a0Eva was born on May 17, 1907, so that would place the date of the photo around 1910\u20131913. \u00a0Gertie was born on July 9, 1897, so a date of 1910\u20131913 would make Gertie about 13\u201316. \u00a0Gertie looks more like 14-15 here, so I’ll tentatively place the date of this photo at 1911\u20131912, with Gertie being 14\u201315 years old, and Eva being 4\u20135 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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