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:
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.)
Linking to Sepia Saturday 769
Very nice to see the pretty clothes and hats! Good that you know (mostly) who is who. I salute whoever came up with the direction of linking their arms...it does make the photo more interesting. Once someone put on a hat, (at least for most women) they wouldn't remove it without a mirror to straighten up their hair-do, whatever it was. The men, maybe, but probably had much shorter hair then...these days there is "hat hair" which might happen.
ReplyDeleteBarbara, I know "hat hair" only too well... I myself wear some kind of hat or cap outdoors almost all year round these days! In winter because of the cold and in summer as protection from the sun... ;-)
DeleteThat is a really nice photograph & like Barbara, it makes the picture just that much more interesting with all of them linking arms. Yes, good old hat-hair. Years ago we had a certain director for the Pine Cone Singers who wanted everyone to wear Santa hats for the second half of the concert. Some didn't mind, but those of us with actual hairdos weren't happy with the idea. Besides that, it's hot up there under the stage lights & those hats didn't help anything. At least we didn't have to wear them for the whole concert & only the 2nd half. Once the concert was over & we were up the aisle & out the door we could whip them off & cool our poor hot heads in the cold air. Ahhhhh!
ReplyDeleteA very neat match for our Sepia Saturday theme. I concur with how their linked arms make it a better photo, but I also wonder if it was a safety issue because the grass was wet and slippery or even had a little slope. Photos of people with hats are always a problem, even with modern digital cameras.
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