Do you have a favorite family photo to share this week? [closed]

Question

Do you have a favorite family history photo to share this week?  Copy and paste it as an answer here to start nominating for this week's round of Photo of the Week!

Selection criteria is subjective. There are only a few guidelines and rules:

• The photo needs to have been uploaded to WikiTree and have a privacy setting of Public or Open.

• It should be a single, non-cropped photograph that includes a person or people.

• It should be an original family photograph. It should not be scanned from a printed source or copied from another website.

• The quality of the image is important. Many photos are wonderful but they weren't scanned at a high-enough resolution. The height or width should be at least 500 pixels. More is better.

• There cannot be copyright disputes. This does not mean that the photo is in the public domain. Copyright holders don't give up ownership when they upload images to WikiTree, as they are required to do on many other websites and most wikis. Uploaders give WikiTree a "license" to use the image. If there's a reasonable question about whether the uploader had the right to give this license the photo will be disqualified.

If you have any information about the photo or a great story to go along with it, be sure to include it in the comments section on the photo's page for others to see. 

The nomination period will go through Tuesday night.  Wednesday morning the 10 nominated photos with the most upvotes will be posted in a new thread for everyone to vote on their Family History Photo favorite for the week! The voting period will be open until Friday morning 10 am EDT. 

Be sure to follow the tag photo_of_the_week so you don't miss out on nominating and voting.

Here's last week's.

Here's the full archive of winners.

Step by Step Instructions on How to Add the Photo to the G2G Thread

Answer 1

Emma Jane Smith

Comments

Emma Jane, you are a peach! Your storehouse of canned goods looks like it will withstand any event that might happen during the next decade. (And we know now, that 1949 was just about the beginning of the atomic age. Computers, still in their infancy would have taken up a room quite a bit larger than Ms. Emma's larder.) But, not to worry your pretty and practical head about the future, Ms. Smith! it will all unfold in good time…like about now!

August 1, 2015 Best Photo of the Week? Could happen!

Answer 2

Three generations - Bernie, Win & Emma

Comments

Bernie, you are such a lucky lad to have both mom and grandma doting on you. They have high hopes for you, perhaps they are already stashing away funds to help get you through medical school. One thing that they probably could not know is that you are:

Selected as a possible Wikitree photo of the week in August 2015…

Moms and grandmas have hopes and dreams but they aren't quite psychic!

Answer 3

Clyde Land

Comments

This gentleman looks a lot like my grandfather.  He seems pretty relaxed :)

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"Mr. Clyde Land, come on down…"

"Wikitree, Photo of the Week is probably the only contest you've ever entered, but I doubt that you are terribly worried. In fact, I suspect that you are rarely worried…just s guess!

Answer 4

My wife's grandmother, Iona Stokes, with her mother & grandmother c1912 in Atlantic City, NJ.

 

Comments

Look at this wonderful family grouping. Stopped by the photographer's booth while on an outing to Atlantic City, I'll wager! The era is captured with the grouping, the clothing, the innocent but open smiles of this happy trio.  A definite "thumbs up!:

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http://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Stokes-969-2

Answer 5

Margaret (Madge) Allsop (b.1894)

Comments

In the last few days, "royal" portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Prince William have been released, showing the Royals from different angles.

Today's wonderful photo, taken around the turn of the century (the last century, that is…) has the same timeless quality. Two girls (one the mirrored image of the other,) a porch, Victorian garb, reminding us that in 1900, life could be gracious, gloriously beautiful, and full of promise…another terrific choice for Wikitree's photo of the week!

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Wonderful photo!

http://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Allsop-11

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Absolutely beautiful!  Thanks for sharing.

Answer 6

(My uncle) Ivor Jones on enlistment in the Australian Army, November, 1917.

 

Comments

In a perfect world, I would have been born in about 1900. I would have waved goodbye to the man of my dreams as he went off to boot camp in the Australian Army. He would have been young, proud, and incapable of showing fear, at least as he departed. Perhaps just beyond his family's sight he would have turned around and waved a furtive reply. (I'll always believe that he intended this gesture as a silent farewell to me…)

Now he's back. At least in a photograph.Ready to resume his rightful role as Wikitree Photo-of-the-week Heart Throb. (I can only hope he'll remember the girl he left behind, at least in passing…)

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http://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Jones-8620-1

Answer 7

http://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Chadwick-1022-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

Henry,

Chadwick-1022 is classified as "Private", so images will not display here on G2G.

If you change the privacy to Public or Open, you should then be able to link the image here.

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I don't know what I am doing wrong. I have changed the privacy setting and reloaded the picture, but it still seems to be wrong somehow.

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Henry,

The profile of Chadwick-1022 is still showing as Private (Yellow padlock).

Click on the "Privacy" tab and change to a Green (Public) or White (Open) padlock and save the change.

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Hi Henry, the privacy setting is still private so we won't be able to use this one this week.  Once you get it fixed, (as Peter mentioned), feel free to nominate it again.  Thanks!

Answer 8

Anna Margaretha Adelheid PeperKorn (née Wehr) with her daughters Anna and Louisa.

Comments

Her beautiful obituary reads:
''In the early days she befriended many in both town and settlement. Her friends were numerous and her passing was mourned by all who knew her, for she possessed a loving heart, and had great sympathy for those in distress. She was a wonderful needlewoman, and she leaves behind her some beautiful work, considered by many to be unique in quality.''

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Thank you for sharing that Barry :)

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Wow, what a lovely tribute :)

Answer 9

John Meadows

Answer 10

Davies-4171-1.jpg

Answer 11

Henry Yonker