Ancestor hat pics

frussell · Dec 11, 2009

Great Grandmother's family portrait

No idea of the year, they were an old Long Island family. My great grandma is on the right, she lived to be exactly 100, and died about 1970 or so. Great lady.

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frussell · Dec 11, 2009

Great Great Grandfather in Uniform

Charles Ludlow Bogert, in uniform:

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frussell · Dec 11, 2009

Last Batch

As you can tell, I raided my grandfather's scrap book and did some scanning. these are shots of my maternal grandmother, in her old Palm Springs western wear, during our local festival of years past, the Desert Circus.

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These are from 1938 and 1939.

Looking back at the last two pages, there's definitely some variety in hat styles among my ancestors. I guess I didn't have much choice in liking headgear, it's apparently genetic. Thanks, Frank

ALL*HeLL · Dec 11, 2009

Here's my Great Great Uncle "Dock" Boggs sometime in the early 1930's:

He was a famous founder of Bluegrass. You can search youtube to hear some of his music.

He was my Great Grandma's uncle. His older brother was her father. He played at family get togethers in Wise county Virginia until his death.

Canadave · Dec 11, 2009

ALL*HeLL said:
Here's my Great Great Uncle "Dock" Boggs...
He was a famous founder of Bluegrass...

Very cool. Did you inherit any of his musical talent?

Mulceber · Jan 1, 2010

My grandfather on my father's side. He worked for years on a team trying to invent a replacement for the type-writer. Ultimately the advent of the personal computer made their work irrelevant, but apparently it was something close to what they were trying to design. This is a picture of him sitting at a train station. -M

Ephraim Tutt · Jan 1, 2010

Granddad in his fedora 1940's

Edinburgh Scotland. Looks like he'd been to the races.

Michaelshane · Jan 1, 2010

frussell said:
As you can tell, I raided my grandfather's scrap book and did some scanning. these are shots of my maternal grandmother, in her old Palm Springs western wear, during our local festival of years past, the Desert Circus.

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These are from 1938 and 1939.

Looking back at the last two pages, there's definitely some variety in hat styles among my ancestors. I guess I didn't have much choice in liking headgear, it's apparently genetic. Thanks, Frank

You don't happen to know where that concho belt is today do you ?Great gloves too.

zetwal · Jan 1, 2010

frussell said:
When he was a buffalo hunter, circa 1888

What's that little charm hanging in front of the bullets? Kind of looks more like a moose than a buffalo. Can you tell what it is?

Mickey D · Jan 1, 2010

Brinybay said:
I just assumed an ancestor is an ancestor, male or female. With that said, here's my maternal Grandmother in her "sombrero", holding Mom when she was a baby, 1922.

Big sister....D'oh!

Mickey D · Jan 1, 2010

frussell said:
Later in life, cool hat and boots!

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Interesting outfit. Small bow tie with a Pendleton, Logger's boots and a well used hat. [huh]

frussell · Jan 2, 2010

Outfit

He was a colorful guy. His son (my grandfather) went to go see him in his cabin in Wrightwood, CA late in his life and he had used an auger to drill holes in the floor of the cabin rather than fix the leaky roof during a rainstorm. In his youth, he was a prominent cattleman in Colorado, and in Utah at some point. We still have his old saddle, his Colt and a few other items. The concho belt my grandmother was wearing is long gone, and may have been on loan for the photos for all I know. Her mother ran the Acoma Indian Store in Palm Springs for years, and was descended from a Jewish family that married into the Acoma Indian tribe and ran a trading post at the pueblo there in New Mexico. There's still a little town near there named Bibo, after my grandma's family. I wish we still had a tenth of all the old western memorabilia my grandparents used to own, I could open a museum. Frank

jazzncocktails · Jan 2, 2010

Wow, great thread, and fantastic photos, everyone. Frussell, yours are especially impressive.

I've posted this elsewhere, but I'll add it here: a scan of a bad photocopy of a photo of my maternal grandfather, just after WWII. He owned a diner (Harnum's Diner) across the street from a paper mill in Brewer, Maine. Here he is at the local drugstore's soda fountain, looking pretty excited by that ice cream soda. Don't unfortunately know what he's wearing on his head.

texashatman · Jan 2, 2010

frussell said:
Charles Ludlow Bogert, in uniform:

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What kind of uniform is this? I'm assuming it's American but I can't place the time frame.

frussell · Jan 3, 2010

Civil War?

My grandpa had it labeled as Civil War, but that may not be correct. I know absolutely nothing about historic uniforms. It looks like a marching band uniform to me, but I'm sure it was military. He was from the Eastern Seaboard, that's all I know. Frank.

duggap · Jan 3, 2010

I may be wrong fellows, but I believe the uniform is a civil war era or there abouts for the Military Academy at West Point.

R. L. · Jan 3, 2010

frussell said:
The younger man lurking in the background of the group is my grandfather during his Navy days. He wasn't an admiral, but had a talent for getting in pictures of famous folks. Lindbergh was visiting the Espiritu Santo Islands, I believe in May of 1944. From an old clipping in my grandfather's scrapbook.

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Frank

I read about Lindy's trip to the pacific in General Kenney Reports. Very cool picture!

daizawaguy · Jan 3, 2010

My grandfather (left) visiting Paris in the 1920`s

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