Circa One Hundred Years ago

1904 Catalina Island, So. California

In the last one hundred years, moving away from the Victorian Era, we have become more at ease in our (Western culture) dress. During the period pictured above people would wear something appropriate for getting wet but, not what you see here. The family whose life was documented in an album of images I bought at a garage sale was not a poor one. They lived in a nice house, travelled to Catalina Island (a luxury), dressed well, and apparently had money to document themselves in photographs over a five year period with good images, names and dates, and locations.

My family photos don’t go back that far in time. The older ones I have are from the 1920s-30s. Most of them are from the 1940s. My father and his older brother were avid photographers and took lots of family pics. Between them we can provide a pretty good documentation of our lives in Ohio and California. I was never good at family snapshots but, I do have some from 1959-64 that I’ve recently searched through, and made prints from. I told me aunt in Ohio I would send her some pics, including her pregnant with her youngest daughter. Of course, I didn’t take that picture. 🙂