This old-timey store photograph shows a tailor in his shop with two boys, possibly his sons. I believe it to be a photo of Joseph S. Pati (1894-1981) and his sons, Samuel, and Mario of New Kensington, Pennsylvania.
Flo Muir and Mary Miller standing behind the oval glass of the door to Miller & Miller - The Woman’s Store in Logan, Kansas around 1914. Here is Flo’s story.
The Dresden Rose Stitchery Collection was owned and operated by mother-in-law who, you recall, comes from a line of talented needleworkers. Her store was in business from about 1988-2004 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Of the hundreds (thousands?) of family photographs I’ve gone through (multiple times) this one struck me this week because I don’t recall ever seeing it before. It shows my paternal grandparents, Michael John Hanley Jr. (1924-2015) and Betty Grace Hanley Sears (1924-1981).
This beautiful dress was made for “Granny”, Muriel Joy Gregory Petit (1930-2014), my wife’s maternal grandmother. Elegantly framed, the dress and its story have been lovingly preserved by my mother-in-law. It now hangs in our home.
Two Civil War photo colorizations of U.S. Sharpshooters. This was a unique collaboration between us and Military Images, America’s only magazine dedicated solely to the study of portrait photographs of Civil War soldiers.
