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From: "Charles H. Dyess" <>
Subject: Re: [ALCOFFEE] Picture Frames :What is in them
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:04:15 -0500
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I have been in the photography and picture framing business for 25 years.
It is not unusual today, for a family to come to the studio to have the
family portrait made and want to hold a picture of a deceased child, sibling
or spouse. Only one time was the request to include a picture of a deceased
parent, and that customer wanted a Five Generation portrait. I have been to
the funeral home and done a family portrait of the family standing at the
head of the casket with Grandmother .!! "Talk about waiting until the last
minute"!!
I doubt your picture was used as a simple prop. Now days we simply
superimpose the image into the photograph, however that technique did not
exist in the 1800's on a large scale.
Chuck Dyess
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Subject: [ALCOFFEE] Picture Frames :What is in them


> I have 2 different sets of great great grandparents and in the women hand
> they are holding a picture frame.What is in them?Did they, back in 1800's
take
> picture with the ladies holding picture frames?Since it was the woman
holding
> them,would it be something to do with thier family line?My great great
grand
> parents Elijah Morgan and Sophia Lanier is on my mother line in Crenshaw
Co and
> Martha Bowden and Matthew Maddox is my father line in Coffee Co.Does any
one
> have an ideas on this?
>
> Debra Maddox Wilson
> Greenback,Tn
>
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