Every Friday The Psychogenealogist shares a "Pic of the Week." The intent is to encourage thought and imagination about the spaces where psychology, genealogy, and history converge.
This #foundphoto is interesting to me more for what is on the back than what is on the front. This probably early 1950s photograph has a bright red lipstick imprint on the back.
One the front are three children, probably siblings or cousins. It looks like they might be standing on a lakeshore with some tall grass or brush behind them. Or perhaps it is just a field or pasture.
I don’t know anything else about the photograph, other than it came in a random lot of photos from eBay that was labelled “kids”. It does not appear the the photos in the lot were related to each other.
I would love your thoughts about some of these questions:
Who are these children and what are their stories?
Whose lips are imprinted on the back and why?
Was the photo sent to someone, perhaps a father and husband who was away?
What do you think, feel, and wonder about as you look at and think about the photo?
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This 1951 Jeep Willys Station Wagon has a unique history in our family. For many years it sat, unused, in the garage of the Leaning Tree Lodge, a family cabin on the Au Sable River in Grayling, Michigan.