Schu Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 ^ Nice... Masonaries are cool! what a great idea for a OT thread... My Great Grand Father Harry Brown. His company did the lighting and electrical engineering for many holly wood movies around the teens and twenties... most notably The Hunchback of Notre Dame. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Morbius Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Your great grandfather looks a little like Ray Walston the actor - especially in the 2nd pict. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizRotus Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Your great grandfather looks a little like Ray Walston the actor - especially in the 2nd pict. You're correct. Martian? Schu's avatar? Coincidence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schu Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Your great grandfather looks a little like Ray Walston the actor - especially in the 2nd pict. Lol.. it does. Fancy that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang guy Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Me in the first grade. Bottom right, green shirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Me in the first grade. Bottom right, green shirt. Whats that row of letters on the banner above the kids. Anyway great photos and great thread folks keep em coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted August 25, 2014 Author Share Posted August 25, 2014 This is my maternal grandmother (in the plaid dress) with three of her older sisters. The two on the right were twins. Often called 'sin twisters' instead of twin sisters. Bruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T2K Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Thanks all for posting the pictures. Keith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 (edited) This one is a puzzle. I have a book of photos, with a few of my maternal great grandfather. There is also a clipping from a newspaper in it and photos from the same family but I can't find a connection with my family yet. I think this is from Safford AL, probably during WWI. Looks like a blood drive being held at someone's home. Edited September 1, 2014 by Marvel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JL Sargent Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Interesting picture. The 20s and 30s were the first years the American Red Cross started collecting blood by voluntary donation for storage. Sodium Citrate was discovered to prolong the life of collected blood in the late teens. I'm thinking that photo is mid 20s or so. Just a few years after the discovery of blood types and still 20 years before Rh blood group was discovered. A blood transfusion during this time was wrought with all kinds of danger and you didn't want a transfusion unless it was your last chance to live. Whatever blood born problems your donor had you likely acquired. With WWII came the idea that blood transfusions were really "life saving" procedures. Even during WWII these were whole blood transfusions which are rarely used today, in the US anyway. My mom struggled for 7 years with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Many blood transfusions, platelet transfusions, etc. kept her going for a while. At the end of it all though, I learned you cannot live on the blood of others (donors). Once you get sick enough that you no longer produce healthy blood cells its just a matter of time. It is interesting to me how mankind has learned so much about blood/medicine since the photo above, yet we still seem to have so much to learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 I'm thinking that photo is mid 20s or so. Just a few years after the discovery of blood types and still 20 years before Rh blood group was discovered. I hadn't thought enough about the time blood drives were initiated. You are probably correct about the '20s. Bruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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