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November 28, 2008 |
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For Tom
FOUND by Emi
in Ohio
Found while cleaning a house for renovation. I believe the previous owner died but the house was still full of things no one claimed. I saw this picture and couldn't bring myself to throw it away. The back reads: "Aunt Jessie and Terry / Martha - went to Goucher & her brother Tom / WWII - his dog tags were found"
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
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Oooh, I like it. It looks a bit staged, but still warm. The kitty in the middle is a nice touch.
My sister went to Goucher. It used to be a women's college in Delaware, but now is coed. I don't know what his dog tags would be doing there.
I meant Maryland, not Delaware.
It seems nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
This is a good find, though......
I like the lamps and the cat. I wonder what other things were left unclaimed in the house.
I always wondered what became of good ole Aunt Jessie. Wheter she still wears her hair like that is anyone's guess. And what about Terry/Martha (I could never decide on what to call her) - did she eventually finish those socks she was knitting?
This looks like a picture staged for a Christmas card, though I don't think they did things like that in the 1940s.
Nice tabby kitty.
Father just made a very witty remark.
Mother is trying not to roll her eyes at Father.
Brother is watching the cat.
Sister is cute.
I like the photo, and I wonder whatever happened to all of them. (except Tacos- I don't care much about the cat)
At first, I thought they were listening to one of Roosevelt's fireside chats.
What are the odds on that cat being real? Please, please tell me it's not a taxidermist's work...But would a cat sit there like that long enough to be photographed? With no camera on show, perhaps, but in my experience the moment they see a camera they're off.
(Yes, I know about ICHC, but that is today, not in the days of the box Brownie which is what was most likely used here.)
Brother's cheesy smile was probably caused by that terribly uncomfortable and unnatural pose (who puts their arm round a radio, for goodness' sake? Is he in love with the Andrews Sisters?) and that suit. Just so you know....*no one* looks good in a double-breasted suit unless they are 7 ft tall and skeletally thin.
Her brother Tom must be the dude up the back, depressing to think that only his tags were found after the war. And that cat is definitely a taxidermy job, it just looks too unnatural to be real.
Great find, i love it.
What a fab find. I feel sorry for Tom though.
My first thought was that it was a publicity shot for some 1940's warm family comedy, which makes the thing about Tom's dogtags particularly jarring.
You can get a cat (particularly a young one who doesn't know any better) to hold still for a photo by getting their attention with a toy or treat. The magnify option doesn't work for me, but it appears the cat's paw is slightly raised, which makes me think Dad has the toy hidden on his lap. So let's not hear anymore about the cat being stuffed. Tom's dogtags are depressing enough, and this is supposed to be a comedy.
All you Yanks enjoy your leftover pumpkin pie for breakfast!
I absolutely love this fidn...and then all the comments dismayed me, y'all are so hardened! I think it's a really warm, cosy photo of this nice family. And okays, stop with the slagging the clothes and the hair, that as what the fashion was then.
Hmm maybe I'm being too picky, but ooo just always disappointing when people rip a find to shreds. :(
I've never met anyone else named emi (spelled that way) so it caught my eye...
"Emi in Ohio" is an anagram for "Robert Keim in upstate New York".
And we could never figure out why the tom cat wore dog tags. We didn't ask; he didn't tell.
thanks for your service, tom.
I love this.
Reminds me of an old movie still.
oh, it is absolutely killing me that both pictures in the room are not hanging straight! i am going to have to invent a time machine and go back and straighten those.
@ librarian, thanks for the belly laughs.
I think that is a movie still - isn't that Col. Potter... I mean Harry Morgan? No, maybe not. And that's not Andy Hardy in the back, but at first I thought it was.
I still think it was Col. Mustard in the library with the iron pipe and the kitty claw.
remindes me of back in the day when i used to sit with my family in a circle around our cat. oh the good ol days.
"Holy Smokes Aunt Jessie! Your dang cat, Kleatus, tooted again!"
That's Aunt Jessie with her children Terry (boy) and Martha (girl) behind her. Uncle Tom is the older man in the foreground. Don't see the dog tags though.
You should add this picture on http://ifoundyourcamera.blogspot.com/
This does look staged - the buy by the radio has his leg posed in a way that most folks wouldn't do in a casual snap.
Also, the radio guy looks like the character Pete Campbell from Mad Men:
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/photos
Is it me or does this cat look .... stuffed?
Oh for heaven's sake. The cat is fine. The guy on the left is patting the side of his chair with his left hand to get its attention, possibly trying to get it to come sit on his lap. The cat is mildly interested in the hand and considering whether it's worth the trouble to go check it out. A taxidermist would have put it in a bland, generic pose, looking either straight ahead or slightly up, with its ears standing straight up. This cat's head position and ears clearly show that it's focused on the man's hand.
If it makes you morbid folks feel any better, all five beings in this picture are probably dead now.