Greetings from the Past
from the early 20th century.
2024-07-20
On the Beach - Sepia Saturday 733
2024-07-10
At the Seaside - Sepia Saturday 731-732
Postcard sent to my dad in August 1943, from his friend Olle.
Dad was 12 years old in 1943, so presumably Olle was around the same age.
Hello! Thanks for the letter, I was so happy to get it.
It's raining just now when I'm writing this.
I will be going back home from the summer holiday soon.
I'm swimming a lot, would you believe it -
I'll soon be beating Björn Borg*.
Greetings from your friend Olle
match for Sepia Saturday 731...
2024-04-06
Two Together - Sepia Saturday 718
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Tage & Mattis |
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Gustaf and Sally, 23 September 1930 |
2024-03-24
Easter Cards from 1914 - Sepia Saturday 716
As Easter is coming up next weekend, I thought I'd share some Easter Cards sent to my great-uncle Gustav Ekman in 1914, when he was living at Backa, Brålanda (Dalsland, Sweden) in 1914. Easter that year was 10-13 April.
I have shared these cards before, but not for Sepia Saturday.
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G.067.02 |
from Carl Emanuelson
(Gustaf's older brother)
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G.067.03 |
(Gustaf's younger half-sister -
my grandmother, 14 years old in 1914.)
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G.068.01 Hildur Söderberg (*) |
Norrköping, 11.4.1914
(another older brother)
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G.068-02 |
(his step-sister, 22 years old -
half-sister to Sally on their mother's side)
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G.069-01 |
(Could be his stepmother's sister
and her husband, but these were
common names, so hard to be sure.)
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G.069-02 |
(Unknown to me, but I just checked the name
Fridenslund, and there is/was a farm by that
name in the same village as the farm Storegården,
where his brother Carl and his step-mother and
younger half-siblings lived.)
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Hildur Söderberg (*) G.070.01 |
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G.070-02 |
Vi skulle sända pengarna till dig Gustav, men vi vet ej vart vi skall sända dem, så om du ville vara snäll och sända mig ett kort vart du är så vore du snäll, då skall vi sända dem strax.
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G.070.01 |
2024-03-16
My Mum as Teacher - Sepia Saturday 715
My mother, born 1930, graduated from teacher training college in the spring of 1952. Here she is on her graduation day together with her parents. Her father was a school teacher as well. Her mother, before she got married, had had a secretarial job.
In the autumn of 1952, my mum moved to a small countryside village for her first teaching job. It was a very small school. From the few photos in her photo album, it seems her pupils were all ages, from beginners (7 year olds) to their early teens. (Rather reminding of Anne of Green Gables or Little House of the Prairie kind of schools.)
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The school house |
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"My children" |
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"First year" |
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"Break" |
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(Drawing by my mum in her album) |
The school house from another angle. Photo taken when my dad (then her boyfriend) and his parents came to visit. My parents with my grandmother Sally + my grandparents' dog Zepp (a collie). Photo taken by my grandfather Gustaf. (My parents got engaged at Christmas that year, 1952.)
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"View from my window" |
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"Winter break" |
At the end of the spring term 1953, she took the older of her pupils on a school trip to Gothenburg.
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Photo from tourist boat 'Paddan' in Gothenburg |
Linking to Sepia Saturday 715