A 'Swenglish' journey through family photos, notes and postcards
from the early 20th century.

2025-04-05

People Wearing Hats - Sepia Saturday 769

From an envelope marked Tvärred (the name of a place where friends of my grandparents lived; cf my previous post for SS 768), I pick this photo as the closest match for today's Sepia prompt:


The photo is rather blurry, which may be one reason why it never ended up in one of the albums. I imagine they took it because they themselves found it rather funny that they were all wearing hats! I would date the photo to around 1927-28, as it includes (I think) my grandmother's older brother Carl, who died in September 1928 (which makes the preceding summer the latest possible time for it).

No 3 from the left (the man with the biggest hat!) + the man furthest to the right, must be the brothers Evert and Anders Andersson (also featuring in last week's post).

  
No 1 from the left must be my grandmother's brother Nils (born 1902), and I think the woman next to him may be his future wife Carin. Just like my grandparents, they did not get married until 1930, but had been "dating" for a few years before that (I'm not sure exactly for how long). 

As all seven people are holding on to one another here, the relationships between them are not all easy to sort out just from this photo, though!


No 4 is my grandmother Sally, No 5 (I think) her older half-brother Carl, No 6 her sister Hildur, and No 7 I think is their friend Anders. And behind the camera was most likely my grandfather Gustaf. (I know from at least one other photo that he and Sally were officially a "couple" before Carl died, even if they did not get formally engaged until 1929, and married in 1930.)