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President John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) in March 1843, taken by Philip Haas. It was the first known photograph of a US president in history.

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hollydolly said:
Home Relocation San Francisco 1919

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I wonder if this was one of the "refugee shacks" built after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake? I have a book about small homes and cottages in the SF bay area and they show pictures of them and state that there are houses in SF that were built from several of these "shacks" being put together. They are of coarse on the historic register if this can be proven and cost a fortune today.
 
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My mother's family had this family portrait taken Aug. 10th, 1922 - exactly 100 years ago today.
My mother is the baby on her mom's lap. Their father (Ralph) died 5 years later from TB. That threw the family into poverty pretty quickly and not long before the great depression era. The 2 boys (my uncles) had to quit school & find jobs and my grandmother had to clean houses to try and scrape together enough money to survive. My mother cooked and cleaned for the household. It was a tough life in the northern Ontario mining town of Timmins.
 
Sassycakes said:
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My Dad when he turned 13yrs old. He is on the left of the picture, His parents made him quit school so he could help support the family. They continued to have more children and my poor Dad had to help support even more kids. I think my grandfather should have just gotten a second job.
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The same was true for both of my parents. Once they completed 6th grade, they both had to leave school to help support the family. My mother was a nanny and my father worked as a butcher in his parents' shop. Today, it seems hard to believe that such young children worked full time jobs.

I have a very similar picture of my father's family. He was the only male child. He had four sisters, but the first-born child died of a heart problem at age ten after having scarlet fever. Perhaps our grandparents were hoping for another male child? Boys did have better earning potential. /-;
 
Pink Biz said:
That is Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. They were 'Hollywood Royalty' of that era.
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Thank you, if my late mother-in-law had been alive she would have told me without hesitation. Like most of her generation, she was hooked on the silver screen. When a new release came out, rather than ask what it's about, mother-in-law would ask, who is in it?
It was Mary Pickford that really surprised me, she looks so young in that picture, you would be forgiven to assume that she was still at school.
 
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