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Family Photograph Archive
For a short time (too short a time), I've been collecting some old photographs of my ancestors. I thought I'd start something on theoryofpaul where I could display some of them along with some information about the people who gave birth to the people who gave birth to the people who gave birth....etc.

This is my great-great grandfather, Charles Choutka (1877-1946, from Prague) with wife Mary Blaha ("Big Babi" 1870-1945, also from Prague), and the family. Mary Blaha came from Prague when she was 15. They met in a bakery. The young people are Mary Anna (1900-1968) and Elizabeth Katherine (1900-1970) and Frank Choutka (1893-1978). So, this must have been taken around 1905 or so. It's a great photograph.


My agents have worked out who this is! It is a photograph of John Lemenski, who was in the navy!


My great-great grandmother, Mary Blaha, is in the back there, along with a lot of other people whose names we may never know. This, by the way, is a very well-done photo, apart from its sentimental value. It was probably done around 1907 or so.


This photo is something of a mystery to me. It's the first wedding photo of my great-grandfather Stanley Suchecki (pictured below in the oil photograph). This marriage produced my grandmother, Maria Miller (1921 - 2003). Stanley's wife in this photo apparently died rather soon, unfortunately.

The photo was in an abyssmally poor state when I finally got it on the scanner glass, probably due to "less-than-idea" storage methods in the basement of my late grandmother's basement. Not only that, it looks like whoever made this print had a "less than ideal" fixer solution...Probably from about 1915.



We think that this photo is of a person named Bennie Ozhahowski, who was Stanley Suchecki's half-brother. Other than the fact that he appears in Stanley's wedding photo, I don't really know anything else about this guy.


This is Anna Mikulewicz. She was one of the twins pictured above. She was my great-aunt.


Another one of Anna Mikulewicz. This photograph seems a little more interesting to me. It took a lot of photoshop magic to make it look decent.


The ball in the foreground is dated 1912. The twins are pictured here.


My mother and her family, around 1953 or so.


This is my great-grandfather, Stanley Suchecki, who was born in 1896.


> My mother at a winery on Seneca Lake, 2002. Photo by me. 4x5 negative.

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