May 30, 2015

A Closer Look (Part 36)


Bridgeport, Chicago, Illinois, 1924. This is Mr. Irene's maternal Aunt, Martha, at the wake of her sister.

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1 comment:

edutcher said...

Getting a kid to age 5 was a real accomplishment in those days.

And having to learn about death, particularly that it came to the young as well as the old, must have made people either quite stoic or more appreciative of the preciousness of life.

Again, we don't know how lucky we are.