The Family Car: Just what is cousin Pam standing in front of?
Yesterday I announced that one of the things that I hoped would come out of this blog would be the "Family Car" project, or how pictures with people and cars can help you understand more about what is going on in the picture. So this is family car week, then I'll make Monday's family car day. The image at the top is my cousin Pam - distantly related, but on both sides of my grandfather's parent's family. Pam died in November 2011, and her mother, Lucille, the next day. What the family was left with was a huge box of family photographs, some identified, some not. We know that Pam in the picture, because we all knew her, sometimes, though, the people in the picture are unfamiliar. If we look at just what she is wearing, and you didn't know when she was born, most people would see the saddle shoes and think late 1950's or early 1960's. If we look at the print - a square Kodak color picture, we know its from the 1960's. And if you do...