52 Photos Week 48: Unique

Question

This week's 52 Photos theme:

UNIQUE

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1. reply below, and
2. add a photo that fits the theme to this week's free-space gallery.

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Answer 1

2013 was my wife and my 50th wedding anniversary.  We got a rather "unique" gift from the family members.

The family gather photos of all the family members at the time (there have been some additions since).  

Then they took a couple hundred of them and made sure that everyone was represented.  They reduced them in size.  They then glued them on to a piece of cardboard into the shape of a man and woman.  Last they had it framed.

I thought this was a clever and unique idea and can be passed down to the future generations.

Answer 2

This is a photo taken on 29 May 1955 of Willabel Burke Martin, on the left, and my mother shopping in Dallas. I have always thought Willabel not only had a unique name, but she was unique in many ways. It was her idea for the two of them to drop out of their Oklahoma college in 1941 and move to Wichita, Kansas.  She thought they could work in the Boeing Plant. She was only 5 feet tall, but she figured she and my mother could build B-29s, so they did.

Comments

Great photo Alexis!  Thanks for sharing

Did they live in Dallas or were they just out for a day of shopping?

Ron

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Ron, thank you for your great comment and question. They were both living in Oklahoma City, so they were out for a shopping day in “Big D”.

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Another incredible photo Alexis.   You just keep giving!

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Thank you Peggy, you are so sweet. It is comments like yours that keep me going through my photos. Looking at this photo today, I realized that I have the necklace and earrings my mother is wearing.

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What a treasure to have your mother's pieces of  jewelry!  

Rest assured,  you have an incredible photo library worth preserving.  (It certainly  helps having such a photogenic family.)

I've been watching!

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Gorgeous photo of your mother she is adorable

Thank you for sharing Alexis

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Thank you Susan. I love your comments.

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Love this. They look so glamorous.

Answer 3

Everybody's unique.  (You knew that.) You are unique. I am unique. Here is a picture of the one-and-only ME!

Comments

You are so right. We are all unique, and you were an ADORABLE baby!! So cute!

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What a adorable photo thank you for sharing

Answer 4

From my collection of photos taken at various horse races by Joseph Raymer. 

In this unique photo, his son Johnny Raymer won the 1931 Austrian Derby with his horse, Heinrich. His time of 1:24,7 over 3300 metres was a European Derby Record that wasn't broken until 1971. Heinrich was considered the best Austrian Trotter of all time.  You can see how far behind the rest of the other horses were as Johnny went past the finish line. There was a handwritten note on the back of the photo which I thought I would share as well.

Comments

Thank you for sharing your fabulous horse racing photo and the writing on the back. It is especially wonderful that you know the story about Heinrich’s win and record!

Answer 5

The most unique part of my family has to be the Archers, specifically my maternal great grandmother, Alice R (Archer) Johnson and her siblings. Clara Archer married U. Ambrose Archer and they had Hettie, Samuel, Theodore, Benjamin, Alice and Reba. I had the pleasure of meeting my great-great aunt Hettie, great-great uncles Sam and Ben, and my great grandmother, Alice. They were quirky, unique and wonderful characters.

This is their mother, Clara (Archer) Archer (1873-1944). The photo was taken in Burlington, New Jersey in the early 1940s. She looks like she may have been a very unique individual herself. 

Missy 

Comments

What a photo!   I hope to retain similar courage and dignity.

Answer 6

My Grandma, Amy Porter on a family visit to Llandridod Wells, Wales, to take the Spa Water. I think she looks about 5 in which case it was taken in 1890

Comments

Gorgeous photo of your grandmother thank you for sharing

Answer 7

The parents of my wifes maternal grandmother had 10 children, 9 girls and one boy. He was born as last of the 10 children.

The boy was Richard Kruse (Kruse-1831), so you can say he was unique in this family.

The tragic thing was that this young man was killed in action in Russia on August 2, 1941 at the age of 26.

Answer 8

In 1901, my grandfather Arthur Morley was the model for the baby's head sculptures on the mantlepiece in the Reigate Municipal Building.  Here he is pictured with his parents, William and Martha Morley.  The Public Services Manager for the Surrey History Centre sent me the photograph of the mantlepiece, for which I am most grateful.

Comments

Wow, what a cute baby, and how cool to be immortalised like that!

Answer 9

When I think of unique. I think of my paternal grandmother Patricia J. Stewart. She was the only grandparent that I never met, as she passed away 4 years before I was born. The story goes that she was 1 of 17 children born to William A. Stewart and Myrtle B. Lownds.

Here is a picture of her with my grandfather Robert D. Ward and my great grandmother Mildred L. Defendorf.

Answer 10

This is a newspaper clipping that I found in an album I inherited.  The families of Melvin and his sister, Dorris, took a long family journey from Spokane to Anchorage and back just to see it.  I expect this clipping came from a Spokane newspaper.

Comments

What an adventure! Especially for the 40 chickens! Thanks for sharing!

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Right?  I wonder if the chickens and cow were providing breakfast on the journey, and an occasional dinner.

Answer 11

This unique cameo pin, which has been in our family for multiple generations, was a gift from James Ross Bird to Margaret Stillwell in 1852 on the occasion of their wedding. It is one of a kind.