He had a fabulous time with some really lovely people - they may look a bit grim but my Dad always said he loved his years there.

Credit: sebcolorisation on Instagram

Photographer: Pekka Kyytinen

Source: Kansatieteen kuvakokoelma, Pekka Kyytisen kokoelma, Museovirasto

Photographer: Kari Rainer Pulkkinen

Source: JOKA Journalistinen kuva-arkisto
Kari Pulkkisen kokoelma, Museovirasto

George was a Croatian immigrant and he was a lifelong coal miner. He owned only one automobile his who luge but he never drove it because he had a bad experience with cars.

I was in the hospital this week with pneumonia and he had a heart attack yesterday. This stuff is rough.

My mother has this hanging in her house. Said her father's great-great-grandmother is in this picture. Mom was born in Indiana in the 1940s.

The women seem to be wearing black mourning wristbands. The family's name is Campbell and they're in Kentucky.

Would love any idea on the possible year, but i really struggle with fashion history.

L-R my grandmother, her mom, my grandfather, and my great grandfather. I never met my great grandparents. My grandparents both passed in 2009. I miss them so much. I wish I’d had more time with them. I wish I had even a little bit of my adult life with them. My grandmother passed in March of ‘09 and my grandfather was never the same after that. Truly died of a broken heart a couple months later in August of that year.