And Another Mangled Portrait!

[FarawayFriend]

I think the rings were gilded by the photographer.

I thought that too at first sight, but if so it was pretty sloppily done - and why didn't he do all the rings then?

 

[TerryB]

I thought that too at first sight, but if so it was pretty sloppily done - and why didn't he do all the rings then?

It looks like earrings and brooches were also gilded. Compared to them, the rings do look sloppy. Some of these "artists" were mediocre at best. I have one that has the photog's fingerprint on the image!

 

[RebelHeart]

Yes, it's just a possibility with Downs Syndrome. I've worked with a number of people with this and a few look almost like anyone else. Thought she might have it because her nose bridge is a little wide, chin a little recessive, fingers a little short - especially the pinkie. Way back, kids with this were often chucked into the system or explained as something else - she/he was normal until a fever came... Downs Syndrome people are a lot of work and need a lot of patience and love - and they give it back tenfold - but back in the day it was a real stigma. But - that said - she's not the one scratched out!

I'm certainly not going to argue with your experience, as I have very limited experience with such cases. All I can say is that if I were alive at the time, I probably would've called on her and often. She's gorgeous in a "European Fashion Model" way!

 

[Northern Light]

For some reason George Thomas and his sister came to mind when I saw this picture. I can imagine she might have done something like this to a photo that he was in, if she had such a thing in her possession. Maybe the "scratched out" person was in a similar position.

That is what I was thinking, that she married a Yankee (heh) or was erased from the family tree for some other offensive behaviour. Perhaps she was the favourite child and the one of the other girls got mad at her!

 

[Allie]

Yes, it's just a possibility with Downs Syndrome. I've worked with a number of people with this and a few look almost like anyone else. Thought she might have it because her nose bridge is a little wide, chin a little recessive, fingers a little short - especially the pinkie. Way back, kids with this were often chucked into the system or explained as something else - she/he was normal until a fever came... Downs Syndrome people are a lot of work and need a lot of patience and love - and they give it back tenfold - but back in the day it was a real stigma. But - that said - she's not the one scratched out!

Gosh, I wouldn't have noticed her fingers but you're right, they are totally different from the other ladies'.

 

[RebelHeart]

Upon looking this image over again I'm considering another possibility. The young lady at bottom right could in-fact be the wife of the young man standing behind her. His hand is resting on her shoulder, which could suggest something other than sibling affection. It might also explain why the other three (visible) people in the picture bear a striking resemblance to one-another while she seems different.

Just a thought....

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Did not notice the young lady's hands either. They do seem to be distinctive, goodness.

The dresses all of them wear seem picked to match? The fabrics blend very well, two are hugely similar and all are a check of some kind. This would seem to have been a hugely planned portrait, maybe all the more reason it's appalling to have a=one sitter scratched out like this.

Yes, hadn't considered the war- duh!! She could have married someone from the other side or simply taken the other side- how obvious for a photo of this era!!

 

[PeterT]

Visited some of my wife's family down in Tasmania once (that's a give away right there) and a wedding photo and another family photo had liquid white out over the photo of the bride ... on the glass!!! Seems a divorce had taken place which was not amicable!

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Oh no! What an uncomfortable photograph to have sitting out for all to see. I mean, as family you would be able to ask about it- as a stranger perhaps visiting the home it would be rude. I'd have a terrible time not being caught looking that way!

 

[Suzanne A]

Bumped into yet another photograph where someone's face has been ' removed '. If anyone remembers, posted a baffling photo of a man and woman, her face almost scientifically scratched from the image.

This hatchet job isn't as neatly done as the last- still pretty darn complete. Gives me the willies a little, thinking how angry someone must have been to ' deface ' ( hee ) a costly object in this way. The thing is, unless she was the man's wife this looks like a shot of a mother surrounded by her grown children.

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In my family, the one that cuts herself out of photos is the one who doesn't like the way she looks in the picture.

 

[Michael W.]

Somebody has a lot of hate built up, that's for sure...

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

In my family, the one that cuts herself out of photos is the one who doesn't like the way she looks in the picture.

Well that is a common sense answer! Ha! Thank you, did not occur to me!

 

[diane]

Even funnier - and weirder - is when somebody takes a picture for a family album or book and it's totally NOT right! My husband's great-aunt went to a lot of trouble to put together a history of her branch of his family and he was not welcome in it. There were two pictures of his parents only because they contained his mom - the aunt's favorite...but his Indian dad was replaced with a white man the family had hoped his mom would marry! It's the only baby pictures hubby has - that family forced his mom to adopt him out. I met this great-aunt a few years ago, with all our kids in tow... Ahyuki, auntie! Where's the fry bread?

 

[LoriAnn]

Even funnier - and weirder - is when somebody takes a picture for a family album or book and it's totally NOT right! My husband's great-aunt went to a lot of trouble to put together a history of her branch of his family and he was not welcome in it. There were two pictures of his parents only because they contained his mom - the aunt's favorite...but his Indian dad was replaced with a white man the family had hoped his mom would marry! It's the only baby pictures hubby has - that family forced his mom to adopt him out. I met this great-aunt a few years ago, with all our kids in tow... Ahyuki, auntie! Where's the fry bread?

Oh wow. I'm never complaining about my extended family again.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Even funnier - and weirder - is when somebody takes a picture for a family album or book and it's totally NOT right! My husband's great-aunt went to a lot of trouble to put together a history of her branch of his family and he was not welcome in it. There were two pictures of his parents only because they contained his mom - the aunt's favorite...but his Indian dad was replaced with a white man the family had hoped his mom would marry! It's the only baby pictures hubby has - that family forced his mom to adopt him out. I met this great-aunt a few years ago, with all our kids in tow... Ahyuki, auntie! Where's the fry bread?

There are no pills to cure Crazy Mean, in the gene pool. We have a couple of these paddling around the deep end, too, no worries!

 

[tryagain]

Memorial for Mrs Ellen McGhee died 1878 Texas.....related?
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=McGhee&GSiman=1&GScid=3524&GRid=105273060&