Old Family Photo Scan Strut

DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,905 Posts
edited December 2011 in Strut Central
Years ago my mom gave me a few boxes of family photos. Most range from the last 20-30 years, but some go back over 100 years. For my moms birthday I scanned about 300 and put them on a tablet I bought her as a gift.

I thought I'd share a few with the strut. Anyone else have some really old family photos?


This first one I was going to ask the strut for an ID (Since there are some folks on here with amazing knowledge in a wide range of topics).

This is my Grandfather near the end of the WWII (In either Germany or England). My Grandfather has never seen this photo until I showed him it a month back. Does anyone on the strut know what model motorcycle he's on?




This is my Grandmother.




Another Grandmother photo.




This is both of them being frisky.



Love the toy car in this photo.




My Great-Grandfather in the 1900's.




Great-Grandfather again.




This is family before they came to North America. Photo is late 1800's.



Thanks again for checking these out. Anyone with any info on the bike would be greatly appreciated.
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  • eliseelise 3,252 Posts
    Yes! I love this, and was just recently thinking about this. I have a great uncle that was (and still is) really into photography and saved everything..

    My great uncle "photoshopping" back in the day:


    My mother and my grandmother:


    This is called, "Nerdy Family Sunday":


    My great grandparents:


    My grandpa on Christmas morning:


    My great grandfather in pilot training:


    For the holidays:

  • staxwaxstaxwax 1,474 Posts

    terse moments at teh family reunion, 1834


    swept away


    caged fury - stolen passion


    going ham at the family picnic


    got your frisky right here


    if anyone has any info on the bike id love to hear it. Grandpa used to tear shit up on this thing bitd

  • DelayDelay 4,530 Posts
    DOR said:
    Does anyone on the strut know what model motorcycle he's on?

    Looks like a Triumph. they had 3 or 4 models used during WWII. Not sure which that would be from the photo. possibly:

  • mom and sisters



    my pops second from left with friends at a wedding


    grandpa, grandma, uncle, uncle, aunt, pops


    sister


    pops


    mom and sisters


    mom


    sister's birthday party


    mom

  • DOR said:

    Great-Grandfather again.


    love this

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  • Edith, everyone in your family is really good looking.

  • DelayDelay 4,530 Posts
    edith head said:

    pops
    wow! you look sooo much like your dad!

  • This is awesome. I'll be home for Christmas and will definitely be going through old photos.

  • DB_CooperDB_Cooper Manhatin' 7,823 Posts
    sabadabada said:
    Edith, everyone in your family is really good looking.

    It's not screepy because he's married.

    I've got some, but not scanned. Mayhap over teh Christmas?

  • DB_Cooper said:
    sabadabada said:
    Edith, everyone in your family is really good looking.

    It's not screepy because he's married.

    i don't think it's creepy - i agree! i love the family portrait on my dad's side. they look like a clan your house doesn't want to mess with

  • Possum Tom said:
    edith head said:

    pops
    wow! you look sooo much like your dad!

    bigtime. when people tell me i look like mom, i'm like uhh wanna see a pic of my dad. and then i show them and they freak out.

  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    edith head said:


    I'd love to know what that giant tube behind your Mom is?

  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    DOR said:
    Does anyone on the strut know what model motorcycle he's on?

    Looks like a Triumph. they had 3 or 4 models used during WWII. Not sure which that would be from the photo. possibly:

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    Either that or a Norton.

  • Rockadelic said:
    edith head said:


    I'd love to know what that giant tube behind your Mom is?


  • DelayDelay 4,530 Posts
    DOR said:
    Does anyone on the strut know what model motorcycle he's on?

    Looks like a Triumph. they had 3 or 4 models used during WWII. Not sure which that would be from the photo. possibly:

    [/img]

    Either that or a Norton.
    nah man. headlamp's a giveaway. too bad it's not a knucklehead


  • my grandfather playing football for notre dame just after newt rockne. then he went into the army taught at VMI and rutgers

  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    DOR said:
    Does anyone on the strut know what model motorcycle he's on?

    Looks like a Triumph. they had 3 or 4 models used during WWII. Not sure which that would be from the photo. possibly:

    [/img]

    Either that or a Norton.
    nah man. headlamp's a giveaway. too bad it's not a knucklehead

    ??

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/albertsbite/3864983945/

    Either way you needed a kidney belt with those suckers.

  • DelayDelay 4,530 Posts
    DOR said:
    Does anyone on the strut know what model motorcycle he's on?

    Looks like a Triumph. they had 3 or 4 models used during WWII. Not sure which that would be from the photo. possibly:

    [/img]

    Either that or a Norton.
    nah man. headlamp's a giveaway. too bad it's not a knucklehead

    ??

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/albertsbite/3864983945/

    Either way you needed a kidney belt with those suckers.

    see how much bigger it is on the norton? that and the gas tank. either way i would love to ride one of these just once:

  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,905 Posts
    Awesome! Many thanks Delay & Rock on the subject.

    These photos are great. Thx for posting Elise, Edith, Crashcourse.

    Saba, why did you take your pic down? It was a good photo.

    Edith, your sisters seem to have the handbag game on lock!



    And thank you for your input to staxwax. Your family is just as I would have imagined.





  • Golfing at Lake Placid sometime in the early 1920s, left to right, Judge John McInery (with sons), Saba's Grandfather (holding club), Governor Al Smith (center), Judge W.F. Haggerty and Senator J.J. Hoey.

  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,905 Posts
    Thx Saba.

    Socks are nice!



  • Opening Day 1927.

  • jjfad027jjfad027 1,594 Posts

    great great ones circa 1950s



    great granpa somewhere inbetween Raleigh and Durham. Mid 50s



    Gramps before Pearl Harbor



    Gramps goofing off in the desert


    Grandma chillin on a leopard that her step mom blew away on safari


    Great aunt posing with my granpas gut bucket


    Mom and uncle


    parents

  • I like 50's Grandma's house and furniture. Is that a paint brush. I bet she read Henry Miller. Scandalous.

  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,905 Posts
    edith head said:


    my pops second from left with friends at a wedding

    Wicked photo. That pic could be from today taken with instagram or something!

    And Tarantino does rip everything off!


  • billbradleybillbradley You want BBQ sauce? Get the fuck out of my house. 2,914 Posts

    My grandfather is the taller boy on the right.

    some my wife scanned of her family in the early 1900's in El Paso, TX.







    and these weren't family members but were in one of the photo albums





  • this. and the shadow of the head with hat at the bottom. a nice contrasty shot though for an old picture. i miss black and white photography. The fact that the sky has some texture to it, and didn't just wash out white in the print.

  • bassiebassie 11,710 Posts
    jjfad027 said:


    parents

    I love her outfit.

  • Great pics everyone - keep 'em coming!


    DOR said:
    For my moms birthday I scanned about 300 and put them on a tablet I bought her as a gift.

    That's a great gift dude!
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