{"id":19030,"date":"2015-06-16T06:17:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T10:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=19030"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:15:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:15:19","slug":"joseph-lajeunesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/06\/16\/joseph-lajeunesse\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph LaJeunesse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GreatGrandfather\"<\/p>\n

The good news is there was writing\u00a0on the back of this photo – Mr. Joseph LaJeunesse, 79 Grover Street, wake tonight. I guess “wake tonight” isn’t such good news, but at least there’s a name. I believe this may be my great-grandfather, although I may be debunked by one of my cousins. Still, I like the folded paper, 3D look of this portrait – it’s interesting how the photographers experimented. Original scan behind the cut.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The good news is there was writing\u00a0on the back of this photo – Mr. Joseph LaJeunesse, 79 Grover Street, wake tonight. I guess “wake tonight” isn’t such good news, but at least there’s a name. I believe this may be … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,3113],"tags":[3595,3594,3593,3596,2296,1454],"class_list":["post-19030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-photo-restoration-2","tag-chicopee","tag-j-b-l-monty","tag-joseph-lajeunesse","tag-massachusetts","tag-photo-restoration","tag-vintage-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4WW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18644,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/05\/05\/alice-lajeunesse-vertefeuille\/","url_meta":{"origin":19030,"position":0},"title":"Alice Lajeunesse Vertefeuille","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"May 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week's photo which had a number of names scrawled on the back, turned up some interesting information. 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