{"id":11646,"date":"2013-02-04T05:04:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T10:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=11646"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:09:19","slug":"mon-grand-pere-et-ses-enfants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/02\/04\/mon-grand-pere-et-ses-enfants\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon Grand-P\u00e8re et ses Enfants"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was digging thru an old jewelry box over the weekend looking for a necklace and I came upon some old B&W negatives. Curiousity got the better of me, so I threw them on my scanner to take a better look. I almost fell off my chair to discover that one of the negatives was a photo of my grandfather, my dad, and five of his siblings! What makes this picture so special is that I have never<\/em> seen a casual photo of my grandfather, who died before I was born.<\/p>\n

\"1910portrait\"

My grandfather, seated around 1910.<\/p><\/div>\n

The few photos I have were posed studio portraits taken when he was a young man, on The American Thread<\/em> baseball team, and a family portrait with my grandmother and their twelve children. I don’t remember when I acquired the negative – I’m thinking it may have been floating around in a drawer at my parent’s house and I grabbed it, stashed it in an envelope, then promptly forgot about it.<\/p>\n

\"AmericanThread\"<\/a>

My grandfather, seated second from the left.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve done a lot of photo restorations and I decided to work on this photo, which was in sad shape. Over the weekend, I stole an hour here and there to fix it. After blowing the dust off of the negative, there were issues – it was faded and there were black specks everywhere. I had to do quite a bit of work in Photoshop preparing it for this post.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoRestore1\"<\/a>

Scan of the original negative.<\/p><\/div>\n

My grandfather came down from Quebec, settled in Connecticut, married and had twelve children. He was widowed in 1941, and raised the younger children with the help of my Aunt Vi – who was an amazing woman. It’s nice to get a sense of him from these few photographs, and wonderful to grow up in a family surrounded by twenty aunts and uncles!<\/p>\n

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