As someone with an extremely large family history, I feel I need to memorialise my interest and my acknowledgment of that in some way. We have a confirmed history of one line of my family back to the 1400's, which is quite something really. This idea came to me when my nan asked me to scan some old family photographs into her computer for her. Most of them were pictures taken in the late 1800's to the early 1900's, and they were mostly postcards as well. I found this notion very interesting as I'd never thought of family portraits being taken as postcards. However during the 1800's and 1900's it struck me that Britain were at war a lot, defending the empire and such, so of course it was natural. Here are a few of the postcards in question:
Taken between 1894 and 1901.
Date unknown. Taken in a photography studio in Commercial Road, Portsmouth.
Date unknown. The adults are my Great-Great Grandparents and the child with the attractive glasses in the front is my Great Grandmother.
I am fascinated by things like this. Just knowing what they looked like, knowing who they were makes me excited. To memorialise this, I recreated a family photo by superimposing myself on to the background of one and printing it as a postcard. Here is the picture I was using as a reference:
And here is my take on it:
Front:
Back:
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